Northern Colo. def. Southern Utah 3-0 Volleyball (Oct 3)

FinalSat, Oct 3, 2026ESPN+

3:0

RallyIQ pre-match: Northern Colo. 99.1% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 3, 12:55 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Northern Colo. won at Southern Utah 3-0 (25-10, 25-15, 25-21) on Sat, Oct 3, 2026. Northern Colo.'s Alayna Tessena led with 12 kills, and Bella LePore added 17 digs.

Data through Nov 3, 4:50 PM CT · final Oct 3

Set	1	2	3	Sets
N COLO	25	25	25	3
S UTAH	10	15	21	0

Match story · written from the play-by-play

.611 and 12 kills for Alayna Tessena as Northern Colo. rolled past Southern Utah.

The biggest single-rally swing was 0.2 points, and Southern Utah's high was 1% in Set 1. The gap came from these numbers. Pre-match, RallyIQ had Northern Colo. at 99%.

Northern Colo.Southern Utah

Break %+27.0 pts
56.229.2
41 of 73 on serve vs 14 of 48, so Southern Utah's sideout was 43.8%.
Hitting+.372
.362-.010
Kills and errors: 38–9 vs 25–26.
Longest run+2
86
Northern Colo. scored 8 straight in the first set to stretch a 3–2 lead to 11–2. That set ended 25–10.

Southern Utah above 50Northern Colo. belowMax swing 0.2%

Northern Colo.Southern Utah

Aces: Northern Colo. 3·Southern Utah 5
Serve err: Northern Colo. 6·Southern Utah 5
Blocks: Northern Colo. 8·Southern Utah 25 BS · 6 BA vs 1 BS · 2 BA
Digs: Northern Colo. 45·Southern Utah 27

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Southern Utah above 50 · Northern Colo. below

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

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

N COLO 98.9%1.1% S UTAH

Northern Colo. wins

3-0

73.4%

3-1

21.6%

3-2

4.0%

Southern Utah wins

3-0

0.1%

3-1

0.3%

3-2

0.7%

N COLO break %: 53.8% vs this opp
S UTAH break %: 36.1% 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

Northern Colo.away

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
11Alayna TessenaOH	3	12	1	18	.611	0	0	2	5	1	0	2	1	13
4Kylie CackovicOH	3	8	2	16	.375	1	0	0	3	0	3	0	3	11
13Summer SneadMB	3	5	1	9	.444	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1.5	6.5
18Gillian WaltonOH	3	6	3	13	.231	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	6
14Maddie RinkMB	3	4	1	14	.214	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	5
3Nerea Alvarez-JorgeS	3	3	0	6	.500	29	0	2	4	0	1	1	1.5	4.5
6Julia AngertDS	3	0	0	1	.000	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	1
16Bella LePoreL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	4	1	0	17	1	0	0	0	1
15Jasmine OgrenDS	3	0	0	0	–	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1
8Leila BallardOH	3	0	1	1	-1.000	0	0	2	6	1	0	0	0	0
5Addison RoarkMB	1	0	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		38	9	80	.362	35	3	6	45	5	5	6	8	75

Southern Utahhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
2Audrey AtwoodOH	3	4	4	23	.000	2	2	1	3	0	0	1	0.5	6.5
6Emilia LindenOPP	3	2	1	6	.167	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1.5	5.5
12Natalie MooreMB	3	4	6	15	-.133	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
11Julia Roncero-RibasMB	3	4	5	14	-.071	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
17Celeste Uruena JensenS	3	0	0	3	.000	9	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
14Kaitlyn BarnesL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	6	1	0	0	0	0
1Ryen SmithOPP	3	9	5	23	.174	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	10
16Amanda MendozaL/DS	3	0	1	1	-1.000	3	0	3	4	1	0	0	0	0
19Talea BerryS	3	0	0	0	–	8	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
8Emilia ZugOH	2	1	1	8	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
5Kaitlyn HoelkerOH	2	1	3	7	-.286	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
10Zorana StankovskaL/DS	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		25	26	100	-.010	22	5	5	27	3	1	2	2	46

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.

Northern Colo. vs Southern Utah

Season series · Northern Colo. leads 1-0

Sat, Oct 3, 2026Northern Colo. at Southern Utah · Northern Colo. won 3-0This match
Thu, Nov 12, 2026Southern Utah at Northern Colo.Preview →

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 8 N COLO · S UTAH 6

Set 1

25-10

Longest run 8 N COLOS UTAH 2

Set 2

25-15

Longest run 6 N COLOS UTAH 4

Set 3

25-21

Longest run 5 N COLOS UTAH 6

Bars above the line = Southern Utah leads, below = Northern Colo. leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Northern Colo.

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	100%7/7	58%7/12
2	50%7/14	56%9/16
3	86%6/7	57%8/14
4	75%6/8	60%9/15
5	57%4/7	56%5/9
6	80%4/5	43%3/7
All	71%34/48	56%41/73

Southern Utah

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	70%7/10	14%1/7
2	35%6/17	46%6/13
3	38%6/16	25%2/8
4	45%5/11	25%2/8
5	80%4/5	0%0/5
6	29%4/14	43%3/7
All	44%32/73	29%14/48

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 (3 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

121 rallies

#	N COLO-S UTAH	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	1-0	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Summer Snead	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
2	1-1	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Julia Roncero-Ribas	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
3	2-1	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
4	3-1	N COLO	N COLO	Ace	Northern Colo.	aced Kaitlyn Barnes
5	3-2	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
6	4-2	S UTAH	N COLO×8	Attack err	Ryen Smith
7	5-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
8	6-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Bella LePore
9	7-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
10	8-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Kill	Maddie Rink	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
11	9-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Attack err	Natalie Moore
12	10-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Attack err	Audrey Atwood
13	11-2	N COLO	N COLO×8	Attack err	Natalie Moore
14	11-3	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
15	11-4	S UTAH	S UTAH	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Bella LePore
16	12-4	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Maddie Rink	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
17	12-5	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Kaitlyn Hoelker	set Talea Berry
18	13-5	S UTAH	N COLO	Serve err	Southern Utah
19	13-6	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
20	14-6	S UTAH	N COLO×3	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
21	15-6	N COLO	N COLO×3	Attack err	Kaitlyn Hoelker
22	16-6	N COLO	N COLO×3	Bad set	Audrey Atwood
23	16-7	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Julia Roncero-Ribas	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
24	17-7	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
25	18-7	N COLO	N COLO	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
26	18-8	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Linden
27	19-8	S UTAH	N COLO×4	Attack err	Audrey Atwood
28	20-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Attack err	Julia Roncero-Ribas
29	21-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Kylie Cackovic
30	22-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
31	22-9	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Julia Roncero-Ribas	set Audrey Atwood
32	23-9	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Maddie Rink
33	23-10	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
34	24-10	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
35	25-10	N COLO	N COLO	Ace	Northern Colo.	aced Kaitlyn Hoelker
Set 2
1	0-1	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
2	1-1	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Summer Snead	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
3	2-1	N COLO	N COLO	Blocked	Natalie Moore	blk Kylie Cackovic
4	2-2	N COLO	S UTAH	Bad set	Bella LePore
5	3-2	S UTAH	N COLO×4	Kill	Maddie Rink	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
6	4-2	N COLO	N COLO×4	Attack err	Ryen Smith
7	5-2	N COLO	N COLO×4	Blocked	Audrey Atwood	blk Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
8	6-2	N COLO	N COLO×4	Bad set	Talea Berry
9	6-3	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Audrey Atwood
10	7-3	S UTAH	N COLO×3	Attack err	Kaitlyn Hoelker
11	8-3	N COLO	N COLO×3	Attack err	Ryen Smith
12	9-3	N COLO	N COLO×3	Kill	Nerea Alvarez-Jorge	set Talea Berry
13	9-4	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Amanda Mendoza
14	10-4	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
15	10-5	N COLO	S UTAH×4	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
16	10-6	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Attack err	Summer Snead
17	10-7	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Ace	Southern Utah
18	10-8	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Blocked	Alayna Tessena	blk Emilia Linden
19	11-8	S UTAH	N COLO×4	Kill	Summer Snead	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
20	12-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
21	13-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
22	14-8	N COLO	N COLO×4	Attack err	Kaitlyn Hoelker
23	14-9	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
24	14-10	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Leila Ballard
25	15-10	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
26	15-11	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
27	16-11	S UTAH	N COLO×6	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
28	17-11	N COLO	N COLO×6	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Bella LePore
29	18-11	N COLO	N COLO×6	Attack err	Julia Roncero-Ribas
30	19-11	N COLO	N COLO×6	Attack err	Natalie Moore
31	20-11	N COLO	N COLO×6	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Bella LePore
32	21-11	N COLO	N COLO×6	Blocked	Julia Roncero-Ribas	blk Kylie Cackovic
33	21-12	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
34	21-13	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Gillian Walton
35	22-13	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Bella LePore
36	22-14	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Talea Berry
37	23-14	S UTAH	N COLO	Serve err	Southern Utah
38	23-15	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
39	24-15	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
40	25-15	N COLO	N COLO	Blocked	Ryen Smith	blk Summer Snead, Alayna Tessena
Set 3
1	1-0	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Summer Snead	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
2	1-1	N COLO	S UTAH×6	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
3	1-2	S UTAH	S UTAH×6	Kill	Julia Roncero-Ribas	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
4	1-3	S UTAH	S UTAH×6	Attack err	Gillian Walton
5	1-4	S UTAH	S UTAH×6	Kill	Audrey Atwood
6	1-5	S UTAH	S UTAH×6	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Alayna Tessena
7	1-6	S UTAH	S UTAH×6	Ace	Southern Utah
8	2-6	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Alayna Tessena	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
9	3-6	N COLO	N COLO	Blocked	Audrey Atwood	blk Nerea Alvarez-Jorge, Maddie Rink
10	3-7	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
11	4-7	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
12	4-8	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
13	4-9	S UTAH	S UTAH	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Leila Ballard
14	5-9	S UTAH	N COLO×3	Blocked	Ryen Smith	blk Maddie Rink, Alayna Tessena
15	6-9	N COLO	N COLO×3	Bad set	Amanda Mendoza
16	7-9	N COLO	N COLO×3	Attack err	Natalie Moore
17	7-10	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
18	8-10	S UTAH	N COLO	Serve err	Southern Utah
19	8-11	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Amanda Mendoza
20	9-11	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
21	10-11	N COLO	N COLO	Attack err	Julia Roncero-Ribas
22	10-12	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Amanda Mendoza
23	11-12	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
24	12-12	N COLO	N COLO	Kill	Kylie Cackovic	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
25	12-13	N COLO	S UTAH	Blocked	Gillian Walton	blk Audrey Atwood, Emilia Linden
26	12-14	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Kylie Cackovic
27	13-14	S UTAH	N COLO	Attack err	Natalie Moore
28	13-15	N COLO	S UTAH	Attack err	Kylie Cackovic
29	13-16	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Maddie Rink
30	14-16	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
31	14-17	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
32	15-17	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
33	16-17	N COLO	N COLO	Blocked	Emilia Zug	blk Summer Snead
34	16-18	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
35	17-18	S UTAH	N COLO	Serve err	Southern Utah
36	17-19	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
37	18-19	S UTAH	N COLO×5	Serve err	Southern Utah
38	19-19	N COLO	N COLO×5	Kill	Gillian Walton	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
39	20-19	N COLO	N COLO×5	Attack err	Kylie Cackovic
40	21-19	N COLO	N COLO×5	Kill	Summer Snead	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge
41	22-19	N COLO	N COLO×5	Attack err	Emilia Linden
42	22-20	N COLO	S UTAH	Serve err	Northern Colo.
43	23-20	S UTAH	N COLO	Blocked	Julia Roncero-Ribas	blk Kylie Cackovic
44	24-20	N COLO	N COLO	Ace	Northern Colo.	aced Amanda Mendoza
45	24-21	N COLO	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Linden	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
46	25-21	S UTAH	N COLO	Kill	Maddie Rink	set Nerea Alvarez-Jorge

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

Northern Colo. def. Southern Utah 3–0

.611 and 12 kills for Alayna Tessena as Northern Colo. rolled past Southern Utah.