FIU vs Merrimack Volleyball: FIU Wins 3-0 (Aug 28, 2026)

FinalFri, Aug 28, 2026 · Neutral site

3:0

FIU beat Merrimack 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-16) on Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at a neutral site. FIU's Chiara Fabbrini led with 11 kills, and Marta Lazzarin added 9 digs.

Data through Nov 3, 3:00 PM CT · final Aug 28

Set	1	2	3	Sets
FIU	25	25	25	3
MERMCK	16	19	16	0

Win probability

Merrimack above 50 · FIU below

No single rally moved win probability by a full point: FIU stayed the heavy favorite throughout.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

FIU 99.4%0.6% MERMCK

FIU wins

3-0

78.0%

3-1

18.6%

3-2

2.8%

Merrimack wins

3-0

0.1%

3-1

0.1%

3-2

0.4%

FIU break %: 55.8% vs this opp
MERMCK break %: 36.5% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Box score

Official NCAA box

FIUaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
14Marla ValentinOH	3	7	0	14	.500	0	4	1	3	0	0	2	1	12
13Teodora SkocajicMB	3	4	0	9	.444	1	0	1	1	0	0	4	2	6
17Kamryn ItzenMB	3	2	2	11	.000	1	0	0	1	0	1	4	3	5
1Ivona LazovicS	3	1	0	2	.500	16	2	3	3	0	0	1	0.5	3.5
2Jillian HuckabeyOH	2	6	2	17	.235	1	0	2	4	0	0	1	0.5	6.5
11Lana SesarOH	2	2	0	6	.333	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	1	4
8Chiara FabbriniOPP	3	11	3	20	.400	1	2	2	5	0	0	2	1	14
12Kindyl KilarOH	3	2	1	4	.250	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	2
7Marta LazzarinL/DS	3	0	0	1	.000	5	2	3	9	2	0	0	0	2
18Tiyana CisseOPP	1	1	0	2	.500	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
5Mariana SilvaS	1	1	0	1	1.000	4	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
10Mia GonzalezS	1	1	0	1	1.000	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Team totals		38	8	88	.341	34	11	14	36	4	1	16	9	75

Merrimackhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BA	BLK	PTS
10Mckenna ShotwellOH	3	6	6	26	.000	3	2	1	4	1	1	0.5	8.5
8Jocelyn HammerstrandOPP	3	6	3	17	.176	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
3Sophia DeBonisS	3	2	0	2	1.000	6	1	0	11	0	0	0	3
1Naomi VajdaMB	3	1	1	5	.000	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.5	2.5
13Mia IzzoMB	3	0	5	10	-.500	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.5	0.5
4Vaia TsioutsioulasOH	1	1	2	6	-.167	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
14Maiella Blandin	3	4	2	10	.200	0	0	0	2	1	3	1.5	5.5
19Elizabeth KenneyS	3	0	1	1	-1.000	3	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
12Ella MaldonadoL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	5	0	0	11	3	0	0	0
7Tamilore Afolalu	2	3	1	7	.286	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
20Devon Lowe	2	0	0	0	–	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
2Natalia Zelubowski	2	0	1	2	-.500	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18Sienna Franks	2	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
15Gabrielle Moore	2	0	0	0	–	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
9Avry BryantOPP	1	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5Maddy FennessyL/DS	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		23	22	88	.011	20	4	3	37	11	8	4	51

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 7 FIU · MERMCK 3

Set 1

25-16

Longest run 5 FIUMERMCK 3

Set 2

25-19

Longest run 6 FIUMERMCK 3

Set 3

25-16

Longest run 7 FIUMERMCK 3

Bars above the line = Merrimack leads, below = FIU leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

FIU

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	57%4/7	50%2/4
2	57%4/7	56%5/9
3	80%4/5	60%6/10
4	100%4/4	60%6/10
5	43%3/7	73%8/11
6	75%3/4	25%1/4
All	65%22/34	58%28/48

Merrimack

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	44%4/9	43%3/7
2	40%4/10	43%3/7
3	40%4/10	20%1/5
4	27%3/11	0%0/4
5	75%3/4	57%4/7
6	50%2/4	25%1/4
All	42%20/48	35%12/34

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (2 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

126 rallies

#	FIU-MERMCK	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	0-1	MERMCK	MERMCK	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Sophia DeBonis
2	1-1	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Lana Sesar	set Ivona Lazovic
3	2-1	FIU	FIU	Blocked	Mckenna Shotwell	blk Lana Sesar, Kamryn Itzen
4	2-2	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
5	3-2	MERMCK	FIU	Blocked	Mia Izzo	blk Kamryn Itzen
6	3-3	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Vaia Tsioutsioulas	set Mckenna Shotwell
7	3-4	MERMCK	MERMCK	Bad set	Marta Lazzarin
8	4-4	MERMCK	FIU×5	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Ivona Lazovic
9	5-4	FIU	FIU×5	Kill	Lana Sesar	set Teodora Skocajic
10	6-4	FIU	FIU×5	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Lana Sesar
11	7-4	FIU	FIU×5	Ace	FIU
12	8-4	FIU	FIU×5	Attack err	Jocelyn Hammerstrand
13	8-5	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Sophia DeBonis
14	9-5	MERMCK	FIU	Attack err	Vaia Tsioutsioulas
15	10-5	FIU	FIU	Kill	Jillian Huckabey	set Marta Lazzarin
16	10-6	FIU	MERMCK×3	Kill	Maiella Blandin	set Elizabeth Kenney
17	10-7	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Maiella Blandin	set Elizabeth Kenney
18	10-8	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Blocked	Chiara Fabbrini	blk Maiella Blandin, Naomi Vajda
19	11-8	MERMCK	FIU	Blocked	Mckenna Shotwell	blk Teodora Skocajic, Jillian Huckabey
20	11-9	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Naomi Vajda	set Elizabeth Kenney
21	12-9	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Mariana Silva
22	12-10	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
23	13-10	MERMCK	FIU×3	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Mariana Silva
24	14-10	FIU	FIU×3	Ace	FIU	aced Ella Maldonado
25	15-10	FIU	FIU×3	Blocked	Mia Izzo	blk Lana Sesar, Kamryn Itzen
26	15-11	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Sophia DeBonis	set Sophia DeBonis
27	16-11	MERMCK	FIU×4	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Marta Lazzarin
28	17-11	FIU	FIU×4	Attack err	Vaia Tsioutsioulas
29	18-11	FIU	FIU×4	Attack err	Jocelyn Hammerstrand
30	19-11	FIU	FIU×4	Ace	FIU
31	19-12	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Ella Maldonado
32	20-12	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Ivona Lazovic
33	20-13	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Mckenna Shotwell
34	21-13	MERMCK	FIU	Serve err	Merrimack
35	22-13	FIU	FIU	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Mariana Silva
36	22-14	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
37	22-15	MERMCK	MERMCK	Blocked	Jillian Huckabey	blk Naomi Vajda, Mckenna Shotwell
38	23-15	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Mariana Silva	set Kindyl Kilar
39	24-15	FIU	FIU	Kill	Teodora Skocajic	set Mariana Silva
40	24-16	FIU	MERMCK	Blocked	Kindyl Kilar	blk Maiella Blandin, Naomi Vajda
41	25-16	MERMCK	FIU	Attack err	Mckenna Shotwell
Set 2
1	1-0	FIU	FIU×4	Kill	Jillian Huckabey	set Ivona Lazovic
2	2-0	FIU	FIU×4	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Marta Lazzarin
3	3-0	FIU	FIU×4	Attack err	Jocelyn Hammerstrand
4	4-0	FIU	FIU×4	Kill	Jillian Huckabey	set Ivona Lazovic
5	4-1	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
6	4-2	MERMCK	MERMCK	Ace	Merrimack	aced Marta Lazzarin
7	5-2	MERMCK	FIU×4	Bad set	Sophia DeBonis
8	6-2	FIU	FIU×4	Blocked	Mia Izzo	blk Kamryn Itzen, Chiara Fabbrini
9	7-2	FIU	FIU×4	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Chiara Fabbrini
10	8-2	FIU	FIU×4	Blocked	Natalia Zelubowski	blk Kamryn Itzen, Chiara Fabbrini
11	8-3	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
12	8-4	MERMCK	MERMCK	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Ella Maldonado
13	9-4	MERMCK	FIU×3	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Ivona Lazovic
14	10-4	FIU	FIU×3	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Ivona Lazovic
15	11-4	FIU	FIU×3	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Marta Lazzarin
16	11-5	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
17	12-5	MERMCK	FIU	Blocked	Maiella Blandin	blk Marla Valentin, Teodora Skocajic
18	12-6	FIU	MERMCK×3	Serve err	FIU
19	12-7	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Attack err	Chiara Fabbrini
20	12-8	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Ella Maldonado
21	13-8	MERMCK	FIU×6	Kill	Marla Valentin	set Ivona Lazovic
22	14-8	FIU	FIU×6	Attack err	Naomi Vajda
23	15-8	FIU	FIU×6	Attack err	Maiella Blandin
24	16-8	FIU	FIU×6	Attack err	Elizabeth Kenney
25	17-8	FIU	FIU×6	Kill	Teodora Skocajic	set Elizabeth Kenney
26	18-8	FIU	FIU×6	Blocked	Mckenna Shotwell	blk Ivona Lazovic, Teodora Skocajic
27	18-9	FIU	MERMCK×3	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Devon Lowe
28	18-10	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Attack err	Chiara Fabbrini
29	18-11	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Blocked	Jillian Huckabey	blk Maiella Blandin, Mia Izzo
30	19-11	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Ivona Lazovic	set Jillian Huckabey
31	19-12	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Devon Lowe
32	20-12	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Jillian Huckabey	set Ivona Lazovic
33	21-12	FIU	FIU	Ace	FIU	aced Sienna Franks
34	21-13	FIU	MERMCK×3	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Sophia DeBonis
35	21-14	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Attack err	Kamryn Itzen
36	21-15	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Sophia DeBonis
37	22-15	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Jillian Huckabey	set Kamryn Itzen
38	23-15	FIU	FIU	Attack err	Tamilore Afolalu
39	23-16	FIU	MERMCK×3	Serve err	FIU
40	23-17	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Tamilore Afolalu	set Sophia DeBonis
41–42	24-18		FIU · MERMCK	NCAA feed gap2 points not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
43	24-19	FIU	MERMCK	Ace	FIU
44	25-19	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Jillian Huckabey
Set 3
1	0-1	MERMCK	MERMCK	Ace	Merrimack	aced Marta Lazzarin
2	0-2	MERMCK	MERMCK	Kill	Jocelyn Hammerstrand	set Ella Maldonado
3	1-2	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Ivona Lazovic
4	2-2	FIU	FIU	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Ivona Lazovic
5	2-3	FIU	MERMCK	Attack err	Kamryn Itzen
6	2-4	MERMCK	MERMCK	Ace	Merrimack
7	3-4	MERMCK	FIU	Serve err	Merrimack
8	3-5	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Tamilore Afolalu	set Sophia DeBonis
9	4-5	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Marta Lazzarin
10	5-5	FIU	FIU	Ace	FIU
11	5-6	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
12	6-6	MERMCK	FIU×7	Kill	Tiyana Cisse	set Mia Gonzalez
13	7-6	FIU	FIU×7	Kill	Teodora Skocajic
14	8-6	FIU	FIU×7	Ace	FIU
15	9-6	FIU	FIU×7	Attack err	Mckenna Shotwell
16	10-6	FIU	FIU×7	Ace	FIU	aced Mckenna Shotwell
17	11-6	FIU	FIU×7	Ace	FIU	aced Maiella Blandin
18	12-6	FIU	FIU×7	Ace	FIU	aced Ella Maldonado
19	12-7	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
20	12-8	MERMCK	MERMCK	Kill	Maiella Blandin	set Tamilore Afolalu
21	13-8	MERMCK	FIU	Serve err	Merrimack
22	13-9	FIU	MERMCK	Kill	Maiella Blandin	set Elizabeth Kenney
23	13-10	MERMCK	MERMCK	Bad set	Mia Gonzalez
24	14-10	MERMCK	FIU×3	Kill	Kindyl Kilar	set Mia Gonzalez
25	15-10	FIU	FIU×3	Attack err	Mckenna Shotwell
26	16-10	FIU	FIU×3	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini	set Ivona Lazovic
27	16-11	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
28	17-11	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Kamryn Itzen	set Ivona Lazovic
29	18-11	FIU	FIU	Kill	Kamryn Itzen	set Ivona Lazovic
30	18-12	FIU	MERMCK×3	Kill	Mckenna Shotwell	set Sophia DeBonis
31	18-13	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Tamilore Afolalu	set Mckenna Shotwell
32	18-14	MERMCK	MERMCK×3	Kill	Sophia DeBonis	set Ella Maldonado
33	19-14	MERMCK	FIU×4	Attack err	Mia Izzo
34	20-14	FIU	FIU×4	Blocked	Mia Izzo	blk Teodora Skocajic, Marla Valentin
35	21-14	FIU	FIU×4	Ace	FIU	aced Tamilore Afolalu
36	22-14	FIU	FIU×4	Kill	Chiara Fabbrini
37	22-15	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
38	23-15	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Teodora Skocajic	set Ivona Lazovic
39	24-15	FIU	FIU	Ace	FIU	aced Ella Maldonado
40	24-16	FIU	MERMCK	Serve err	FIU
41	25-16	MERMCK	FIU	Kill	Mia Gonzalez	set Kindyl Kilar

Score shown after each rally, FIU first.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

FIU def. Merrimack 3–0