Montana State def. Southern Utah 3-0 Volleyball (Oct 29)

FinalThu, Oct 29, 2026ESPN+

3:0

RallyIQ pre-match: Montana St. 97.0% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 29, 7:25 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Montana St. won at Southern Utah 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-22) on Thu, Oct 29, 2026. Montana St.'s Karli Heidemann led with 11 kills, and Nicolette Noble added 13 digs.

Data through Nov 3, 10:40 PM CT · final Oct 29

Set	1	2	3	Sets
MONTST	25	25	25	3
S UTAH	17	18	22	0

Match story · written from the play-by-play

Montana St. held Southern Utah to .086 hitting.

Win probability never moved more than 0.5 points on one rally; Southern Utah topped out at 3% in Set 1. Pre-match, RallyIQ had Montana St. at 97%.

Montana St.Southern Utah

Break %+14.8 pts
52.137.3
38 of 73 on serve vs 22 of 59, so Southern Utah's sideout was 47.9%.
Hitting+.127
.213.086
Kills and errors: 39–19 vs 27–19.
Longest run+1
65
Up 7–6 in the third set, Montana St. scored 6 straight to make it 13–6. Final score of the set: 25–22.

Southern Utah above 50Montana St. belowMax swing 0.5%

Montana St.Southern Utah

Aces: Montana St. 6·Southern Utah 4
Serve err: Montana St. 4·Southern Utah 6
Blocks: Montana St. 8·Southern Utah 76 BS · 4 BA vs 7 BS · 0 BA
Digs: Montana St. 39·Southern Utah 32

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Southern Utah above 50 · Montana St. below

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

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

MONTST 96.7%3.3% S UTAH

Montana St. wins

3-0

61.3%

3-1

27.7%

3-2

7.8%

Southern Utah wins

3-0

0.3%

3-1

0.9%

3-2

2.0%

MONTST break %: 49.6% vs this opp
S UTAH break %: 35.5% 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

Montana St.away

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
18Karli HeidemannOH	3	11	3	22	.364	1	3	0	4	1	1	1	1.5	15.5
22Joelie SpeltsMB	3	10	1	14	.643	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	12
17Alice StemanMB	3	6	1	12	.417	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	7
2Lauren GreenyOH	3	5	4	21	.048	0	0	1	9	0	1	1	1.5	6.5
11Elli EskoOH	3	4	6	13	-.154	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
6Teagan JaynesS	3	1	2	7	-.143	31	1	0	6	0	1	0	1	3
45Nicolette NobleL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	2	2	1	13	2	0	0	0	2
12Afton ThomsenDS	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
5Keely CullerOH	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
14Taylor McDonaldOH	1	0	1	2	-.500	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
15Teya YeomansOH	1	1	1	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
23Elli TuftoOH	1	1	0	1	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Team totals		39	19	94	.213	35	6	4	39	4	6	4	8	75

Southern Utahhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BLK	PTS
2Audrey AtwoodOH	3	5	6	19	-.053	2	2	1	5	1	2	2	9
8Emilia ZugOH	3	7	3	20	.200	0	0	0	5	0	1	1	8
1Ryen SmithOPP	3	5	3	14	.143	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	6
12Natalie MooreMB	3	5	3	11	.182	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	6
19Talea BerryS	3	0	0	0	–	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
7Molly MitchellMB	1	1	0	2	.500	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
3Cala CooperOH	3	2	1	16	.063	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	3
17Celeste Uruena JensenS	3	1	0	2	.500	7	1	1	2	0	0	0	2
14Kaitlyn BarnesL/DS	3	0	0	1	.000	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0
16Amanda MendozaL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0
6Emilia LindenOPP	2	1	3	8	-.250	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	3
10Zorana StankovskaL/DS	2	0	0	0	–	4	0	1	3	1	0	0	0
Team totals		27	19	93	.086	25	4	6	32	6	7	7	57

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.

Montana St. vs Southern Utah

Season series · Montana St. leads 2-0

Sat, Oct 17, 2026Southern Utah at Montana St. · Montana St. won 3-1Result →
Thu, Oct 29, 2026Montana St. at Southern Utah · Montana St. won 3-0This match

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 6 MONTST · S UTAH 5

Set 1

25-17

Longest run 4 MONTST S UTAH 3

Set 2

25-18

Longest run 4 MONTST S UTAH 4

Set 3

25-22

Longest run 6 MONTST S UTAH 5

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

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Montana St.

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	62%8/13	45%5/11
2	58%7/12	46%6/13
3	67%6/9	63%10/16
4	46%6/13	33%3/9
5	83%5/6	50%5/10
6	83%5/6	64%9/14
All	63%37/59	52%38/73

Southern Utah

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	44%7/16	22%2/9
2	50%6/12	46%6/13
3	55%6/11	45%5/11
4	46%6/13	40%4/10
5	36%5/14	40%4/10
6	71%5/7	17%1/6
All	48%35/73	37%22/59

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

132 rallies

#	MONTST -S UTAH	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	1-0	S UTAH	MONTST ×4	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
2	2-0	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Attack err	Audrey Atwood
3	3-0	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Kill	Teagan Jaynes	set Talea Berry
4	4-0	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
5	4-1	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Audrey Atwood
6	5-1	S UTAH	MONTST	Bad set	Molly Mitchell
7	6-1	MONTST	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts
8	6-2	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
9	6-3	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Karli Heidemann
10	7-3	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
11	7-4	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Talea Berry
12	8-4	S UTAH	MONTST ×3	Serve err	Southern Utah
13	9-4	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Kill	Lauren Greeny	set Karli Heidemann
14	10-4	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Ace	Teagan Jaynes	aced Zorana Stankovska
15	10-5	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Audrey Atwood
16	11-5	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Lauren Greeny	set Teagan Jaynes
17	12-5	MONTST	MONTST	Kill	Alice Steman
18	12-6	MONTST	S UTAH	Blocked	Lauren Greeny	blk Audrey Atwood
19	13-6	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Alice Steman	set Teagan Jaynes
20	13-7	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Cala Cooper	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
21	14-7	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Lauren Greeny	set Teagan Jaynes
22	14-8	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
23	15-8	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Elli Esko	set Teagan Jaynes
24	15-9	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Molly Mitchell	set Talea Berry
25	16-9	S UTAH	MONTST	Serve err	Southern Utah
26	16-10	MONTST	S UTAH	Attack err	Lauren Greeny
27	17-10	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
28	18-10	MONTST	MONTST	Kill	Alice Steman	set Teagan Jaynes
29	18-11	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
30	18-12	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Karli Heidemann
31	19-12	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
32	20-12	MONTST	MONTST	Blocked	Natalie Moore	blk Taylor McDonald
33	20-13	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Zorana Stankovska
34	21-13	S UTAH	MONTST	Serve err	Southern Utah
35	21-14	MONTST	S UTAH	Attack err	Taylor McDonald
36	22-14	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
37	23-14	MONTST	MONTST	Attack err	Ryen Smith
38	23-15	MONTST	S UTAH×3	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
39	23-16	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Blocked	Elli Esko	blk Ryen Smith
40	23-17	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Bad set	Teagan Jaynes
41	24-17	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
42	25-17	MONTST	MONTST	Bad set	Zorana Stankovska
Set 2
1	1-0	MONTST	MONTST	Ace	Nicolette Noble	aced Audrey Atwood
2	2-0	MONTST	MONTST	Attack err	Emilia Linden
3	2-1	MONTST	S UTAH×4	Serve err	Nicolette Noble
4	2-2	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Nicolette Noble
5	2-3	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Blocked	Lauren Greeny	blk Emilia Zug
6	2-4	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Kaitlyn Barnes
7	3-4	S UTAH	MONTST	Serve err	Southern Utah
8	3-5	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Talea Berry
9	3-6	S UTAH	S UTAH	Attack err	Teagan Jaynes
10	4-6	S UTAH	MONTST ×4	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
11	5-6	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Blocked	Ryen Smith	blk Karli Heidemann, Joelie Spelts
12	6-6	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Bad set	Talea Berry
13	7-6	MONTST	MONTST ×4	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
14	7-7	MONTST	S UTAH	Bad set	Nicolette Noble
15	8-7	S UTAH	MONTST ×3	Serve err	Southern Utah
16	9-7	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Attack err	Cala Cooper
17	10-7	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Kill	Alice Steman	set Teagan Jaynes
18	10-8	MONTST	S UTAH	Serve err	Keely Culler
19	11-8	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
20	12-8	MONTST	MONTST	Attack err	Natalie Moore
21	12-9	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
22	13-9	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Alice Steman	set Teagan Jaynes
23	14-9	MONTST	MONTST	Blocked	Audrey Atwood	blk Alice Steman
24	14-10	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
25	15-10	S UTAH	MONTST ×3	Attack err	Audrey Atwood
26	16-10	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Ace	Nicolette Noble	aced Amanda Mendoza
27	17-10	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Kill	Elli Esko	set Nicolette Noble
28	17-11	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Linden	set Talea Berry
29	18-11	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
30	19-11	MONTST	MONTST	Attack err	Ryen Smith
31	19-12	MONTST	S UTAH	Serve err	Lauren Greeny
32	19-13	S UTAH	S UTAH	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Karli Heidemann
33	20-13	S UTAH	MONTST ×3	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
34	21-13	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
35	22-13	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Attack err	Emilia Zug
36	22-14	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Talea Berry
37	23-14	S UTAH	MONTST	Serve err	Southern Utah
38	24-14	MONTST	MONTST	Attack err	Emilia Zug
39	24-15	MONTST	S UTAH×4	Kill	Celeste Uruena Jensen
40	24-16	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Blocked	Teya Yeomans	blk Cala Cooper
41	24-17	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Attack err	Alice Steman
42	24-18	S UTAH	S UTAH×4	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
43	25-18	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Teya Yeomans	set Teagan Jaynes
Set 3
1	1-0	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Lauren Greeny	set Teagan Jaynes
2	1-1	MONTST	S UTAH	Blocked	Elli Esko	blk Emilia Linden
3	2-1	S UTAH	MONTST ×3	Kill	Elli Esko	set Teagan Jaynes
4	3-1	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Attack err	Emilia Zug
5	4-1	MONTST	MONTST ×3	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
6	4-2	MONTST	S UTAH×3	Kill	Ryen Smith	set Talea Berry
7	4-3	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Attack err	Joelie Spelts
8	4-4	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Attack err	Teagan Jaynes
9	5-4	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
10	5-5	MONTST	S UTAH	Serve err	Keely Culler
11	6-5	S UTAH	MONTST	Blocked	Natalie Moore	blk Karli Heidemann
12	7-5	MONTST	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Alice Steman
13	7-6	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
14	8-6	S UTAH	MONTST ×6	Kill	Alice Steman	set Teagan Jaynes
15	9-6	MONTST	MONTST ×6	Ace	Karli Heidemann
16	10-6	MONTST	MONTST ×6	Kill	Lauren Greeny	set Teagan Jaynes
17	11-6	MONTST	MONTST ×6	Ace	Karli Heidemann	aced Kaitlyn Barnes
18	12-6	MONTST	MONTST ×6	Attack err	Audrey Atwood
19	13-6	MONTST	MONTST ×6	Ace	Karli Heidemann	aced Kaitlyn Barnes
20	13-7	MONTST	S UTAH	Attack err	Elli Esko
21	14-7	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Elli Esko	set Teagan Jaynes
22	14-8	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Cala Cooper
23	15-8	S UTAH	MONTST	Blocked	Audrey Atwood	blk Joelie Spelts, Lauren Greeny
24	15-9	MONTST	S UTAH	Attack err	Elli Esko
25	15-10	S UTAH	S UTAH	Ace	Southern Utah	aced Nicolette Noble
26	16-10	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Joelie Spelts	set Teagan Jaynes
27	17-10	MONTST	MONTST	Bad set	Talea Berry
28	17-11	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Talea Berry
29	18-11	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
30	18-12	MONTST	S UTAH×5	Bad set	Teagan Jaynes
31	18-13	S UTAH	S UTAH×5	Attack err	Karli Heidemann
32	18-14	S UTAH	S UTAH×5	Kill	Emilia Zug	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
33	18-15	S UTAH	S UTAH×5	Ace	Southern Utah
34	18-16	S UTAH	S UTAH×5	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Celeste Uruena Jensen
35	19-16	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Teagan Jaynes
36	19-17	MONTST	S UTAH	Kill	Natalie Moore	set Zorana Stankovska
37	20-17	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Karli Heidemann	set Nicolette Noble
38	21-17	MONTST	MONTST	Blocked	Audrey Atwood	blk Lauren Greeny
39	21-18	MONTST	S UTAH	Blocked	Elli Esko	blk Natalie Moore
40	21-19	S UTAH	S UTAH	Kill	Cala Cooper	set Zorana Stankovska
41	22-19	S UTAH	MONTST	Bad set	Audrey Atwood
42	23-19	MONTST	MONTST	Blocked	Emilia Linden	blk Joelie Spelts
43	23-20	MONTST	S UTAH×3	Kill	Audrey Atwood	set Zorana Stankovska
44	23-21	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Blocked	Lauren Greeny	blk Audrey Atwood
45	23-22	S UTAH	S UTAH×3	Attack err	Elli Esko
46	24-22	S UTAH	MONTST	Kill	Elli Tufto	set Joelie Spelts
47	25-22	MONTST	MONTST	Blocked	Emilia Linden	blk Teagan Jaynes

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

Montana St. def. Southern Utah 3–0

Montana St. held Southern Utah to .086 hitting.