Grambling vs Alabama Volleyball: Alabama Wins 3-0 (Sep 7)

FinalMon, Sep 7, 2026

0:3

Alabama beat visiting Grambling 3-0 (25-18, 25-8, 25-6) on Mon, Sep 7, 2026. Alabama's Laney Hennessee and Kaleigh Palmer led with 10 kills each.

Data through Nov 3, 3:00 PM CT · final Sep 7

Set	1	2	3	Sets
GRAMB	18	8	6	0
ALA	25	25	25	3

Win probability

Alabama above 50 · Grambling below

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

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

GRAMB 0.3%99.7% ALA

Grambling wins

3-0

0.0%

3-1

0.1%

3-2

0.2%

Alabama wins

3-0

82.5%

3-1

15.4%

3-2

1.8%

GRAMB break %: 35.0% vs this opp
ALA break %: 56.1% 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

Gramblingaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BA	BLK	PTS
11Rihianna BrownMB	3	3	1	8	.250	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.5	4.5
0Kenya LucasOH	3	4	3	14	.071	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
22Lyric JordanOH	3	0	0	11	.000	0	0	0	6	3	1	0.5	0.5
3Reece CookDS	3	0	0	0	–	7	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
8Angelique PenaMB	2	0	1	2	-.500	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	1
9Hailey BotelloL/DS	2	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
2Bailey HollisS	3	2	1	8	.125	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
1Asialin PowellL/DS	3	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0
18Alayna HowardS	3	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
14Amaris MarksOH	2	1	4	10	-.300	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.5	1.5
25Jazmine BinionOH	2	0	2	9	-.222	0	0	0	2	0	1	0.5	0.5
20Avri Solik-FifarekOH	2	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
6Jaida GrayOH	1	0	2	3	-.667	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5Nile JohnsonMB	1	0	1	3	-.333	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		10	15	70	-.071	10	1	1	24	8	6	3	32

Alabamahome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BA	BLK	PTS
5Laney HennesseeOH	3	10	0	18	.556	0	2	2	9	0	1	0.5	12.5
11Kaleigh PalmerOH	3	10	3	16	.438	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	12
14Addison EngelMB	3	7	0	10	.700	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	8
1Hannah ParantS	3	3	0	3	1.000	38	3	4	10	0	0	0	6
9Lily GervaseMB	3	5	1	6	.667	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.5	5.5
23Mya AllenOH	2	4	1	9	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
2Dionii FragaL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
12Erin ClarkL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
8Lindsey BrownDS	3	0	0	0	–	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
10Maddie SniderOH	2	5	0	7	.714	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
13Maggie KyriakidesOH	2	4	1	6	.500	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
18Leilia ToailoaOH	2	1	1	5	.000	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.5	1.5
6Ashby DanielMB	2	0	0	1	.000	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.5	1.5
3Audrey SimpsonMB	1	1	1	3	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
22Kyla DunawayOH	1	1	1	3	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1
4Josie ImesOH	1	0	0	0	–	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
19Tea SimicOH	1	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		51	9	88	.477	46	8	10	40	1	8	4	75

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 3 GRAMB · ALA 11

Set 1

18-25

Longest run 3 GRAMBALA 5

Set 2

8-25

Longest run 2 GRAMBALA 11

Set 3

6-25

Longest run 1 GRAMBALA 9

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

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Grambling

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	17%4/23	17%1/6
2	29%4/14	33%2/6
3	33%4/12	33%2/6
4	80%4/5	0%0/4
5	27%4/15	20%1/5
6	75%3/4	43%3/7
All	32%23/73	26%9/34

Alabama

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	86%6/7	69%9/13
2	57%4/7	84%21/25
3	80%4/5	0%0/4
4	80%4/5	67%8/12
5	80%4/5	43%3/7
6	60%3/5	75%9/12
All	74%25/34	68%50/73

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

107 rallies

#	GRAMB-ALA	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	0-1	GRAMB	ALA×4	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Mya Allen
2	0-2	ALA	ALA×4	Kill	Addison Engel	set Hannah Parant
3	0-3	ALA	ALA×4	Kill	Addison Engel	set Hannah Parant
4	0-4	ALA	ALA×4	Ace	Alabama	aced Asialin Powell
5	1-4	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Kenya Lucas	set Reece Cook
6	1-5	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
7	2-5	ALA	GRAMB	Attack err	Mya Allen
8	2-6	GRAMB	ALA×5	Kill	Lily Gervase	set Hannah Parant
9	2-7	ALA	ALA×5	Kill	Mya Allen	set Hannah Parant
10	2-8	ALA	ALA×5	Ace	Alabama
11	2-9	ALA	ALA×5	Blocked	Amaris Marks	blk Lily Gervase, Kaleigh Palmer
12	2-10	ALA	ALA×5	Kill	Mya Allen	set Hannah Parant
13	3-10	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
14	3-11	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Hannah Parant	set Kaleigh Palmer
15	3-12	ALA	ALA	Kill	Lily Gervase	set Hannah Parant
16	4-12	ALA	GRAMB	Attack err	Kaleigh Palmer
17	4-13	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Lily Gervase	set Hannah Parant
18	5-13	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
19	6-13	GRAMB	GRAMB	Blocked	Audrey Simpson	blk Lyric Jordan, Angelique Pena
20	6-14	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Dionii Fraga
21	7-14	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
22	7-15	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
23	8-15	ALA	GRAMB×3	Serve err	Alabama
24	9-15	GRAMB	GRAMB×3	Kill	Kenya Lucas	set Reece Cook
25	10-15	GRAMB	GRAMB×3	Blocked	Kaleigh Palmer	blk Amaris Marks, Angelique Pena
26	10-16	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Mya Allen	set Hannah Parant
27	11-16	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Amaris Marks	set Reece Cook
28	12-16	GRAMB	GRAMB	Kill	Kenya Lucas	set Reece Cook
29	12-17	GRAMB	ALA×3	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
30	12-18	ALA	ALA×3	Attack err	Amaris Marks
31	12-19	ALA	ALA×3	Attack err	Amaris Marks
32	13-19	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Rihianna Brown	set Reece Cook
33	13-20	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Mya Allen	set Hannah Parant
34	14-20	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Rihianna Brown	set Alayna Howard
35	14-21	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Hannah Parant	set Kaleigh Palmer
36	14-22	ALA	ALA	Ace	Alabama	aced Lyric Jordan
37	15-22	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Bailey Hollis	set Alayna Howard
38	16-22	GRAMB	GRAMB	Ace	Rihianna Brown	aced Kaleigh Palmer
39	16-23	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
40	16-24	ALA	ALA	Kill	Audrey Simpson	set Hannah Parant
41	17-24	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
42	18-24	GRAMB	GRAMB	Attack err	Kaleigh Palmer
43	18-25	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
Set 2
1	0-1	ALA	ALA×8	Attack err	Kenya Lucas
2	0-2	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Addison Engel	set Hannah Parant
3	0-3	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
4	0-4	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
5	0-5	ALA	ALA×8	Ace	Alabama	aced Hailey Botello
6	0-6	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
7	0-7	ALA	ALA×8	Ace	Alabama
8	0-8	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Laney Hennessee
9	1-8	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
10	1-9	GRAMB	ALA×11	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
11	1-10	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
12	1-11	ALA	ALA×11	Blocked	Amaris Marks	blk Addison Engel, Kaleigh Palmer
13	1-12	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
14	1-13	ALA	ALA×11	Ace	Alabama	aced Lyric Jordan
15	1-14	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Addison Engel
16	1-15	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
17	1-16	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Addison Engel
18	1-17	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Maggie Kyriakides
19	1-18	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Maggie Kyriakides	set Hannah Parant
20	1-19	ALA	ALA×11	Kill	Kyla Dunaway	set Hannah Parant
21	2-19	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Kenya Lucas	set Reece Cook
22	3-19	GRAMB	GRAMB	Blocked	Kyla Dunaway	blk Jazmine Binion, Rihianna Brown
23	3-20	GRAMB	ALA	Attack err	Kenya Lucas
24	4-20	ALA	GRAMB	Bad set	Lily Gervase
25	4-21	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Maggie Kyriakides	set Hannah Parant
26	5-21	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
27	6-21	GRAMB	GRAMB	Attack err	Lily Gervase
28	6-22	GRAMB	ALA×3	Kill	Lily Gervase	set Hannah Parant
29	6-23	ALA	ALA×3	Kill	Maddie Snider	set Hannah Parant
30	6-24	ALA	ALA×3	Attack err	Rihianna Brown
31	7-24	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Bailey Hollis	set Alayna Howard
32	8-24	GRAMB	GRAMB	Attack err	Leilia Toailoa
33	8-25	GRAMB	ALA	Attack err	Angelique Pena
Set 3
1	0-1	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Addison Engel	set Hannah Parant
2	0-2	ALA	ALA	Attack err	Jazmine Binion
3	1-2	ALA	GRAMB	Bad set	Maggie Kyriakides
4	1-3	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
5	2-3	ALA	GRAMB	Attack err	Maggie Kyriakides
6	2-4	GRAMB	ALA×3	Kill	Hannah Parant	set Erin Clark
7	2-5	ALA	ALA×3	Attack err	Jaida Gray
8	2-6	ALA	ALA×3	Kill	Maggie Kyriakides	set Hannah Parant
9	3-6	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
10	3-7	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Lily Gervase	set Hannah Parant
11	4-7	ALA	GRAMB	Kill	Rihianna Brown	set Reece Cook
12	4-8	GRAMB	ALA×9	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Hannah Parant
13	4-9	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Kaleigh Palmer	set Hannah Parant
14	4-10	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Lindsey Brown
15	4-11	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Laney Hennessee	set Dionii Fraga
16	4-12	ALA	ALA×9	Blocked	Bailey Hollis	blk Laney Hennessee, Addison Engel
17	4-13	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Maddie Snider	set Hannah Parant
18	4-14	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Maddie Snider	set Dionii Fraga
19	4-15	ALA	ALA×9	Kill	Maddie Snider	set Hannah Parant
20	4-16	ALA	ALA×9	Ace	Alabama
21	5-16	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
22	5-17	GRAMB	ALA	Kill	Addison Engel	set Hannah Parant
23	6-17	ALA	GRAMB	Serve err	Alabama
24	6-18	GRAMB	ALA×8	Serve err	Bailey Hollis
25	6-19	ALA	ALA×8	Attack err	Jazmine Binion
26	6-20	ALA	ALA×8	Blocked	Jaida Gray	blk Leilia Toailoa, Ashby Daniel
27	6-21	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Leilia Toailoa	set Hannah Parant
28	6-22	ALA	ALA×8	Ace	Alabama	aced Lyric Jordan
29	6-23	ALA	ALA×8	Attack err	Kenya Lucas
30	6-24	ALA	ALA×8	Attack err	Nile Johnson
31	6-25	ALA	ALA×8	Kill	Maddie Snider	set Bailey Hollis

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

Alabama def. Grambling 3–0