LAFAYETTE — The Georgia Northwestern Lady Mustangs volleyball team has already proven itself this year with impressive wins over a pair of Southeastern Conference club level teams.

Saturday, they showed they could adapt to a slower pace of game.

Playing in their lone “home” match of the season, the Lady Mustangs had little trouble in disposing of visiting West Georgia Tech in three straight games in a match held at LaFayette High School.

“It’s was kind of hard because we’ve been used to playing a much faster-paced game against teams like Mississippi State and Tennessee, and sometimes it’s hard to stay in that groove,” said GNTC head coach Tricia Goodwin. “But overall, I thought we did well in keeping a up pace where we could go out and win in the end.”

GNTC dominated from the opening whistle in Game 1, jumping out to a 14-4 lead en route to an easy 25-9 win.

The Lady Knights regrouped in the early part of Game 2 and found itself knotted at 9-9 before the Lady Mustangs took control, scoring 16 of the game’s last 20 points to claim a 25-13 win.

Game 3 was nearly a carbon copy of Game 2, with West Georgia trailing by only two points at the halfway mark.

But Lady Mustangs’ three-year veteran Melissa Long came off the bench to jump start her team with an ace, and the Black-and-Gold took over from there.

Long, along with frontline mates Hansley Davenport, Allison Robison, Devinne Crumley and Jesse Parsons, took turns hammering at the Lady Knights' slowly withering defense as GNTC sealed the match with a 25-16 victory.

Davenport had eight kills and four aces while Parsons added six kills and four aces. Setter Katie White came through with 26 assists and six more of GNTC’s total 20 aces on the day.

“We’ve really moved toward playing the NCAA Division I club level teams until we get more technical school teams in our league,” Goodwin added. “It makes our whole program better and it gives us a chance to get more players out because they want a chance to play at and against some of these SEC teams. Plus, you only get better by playing better teams.”

The Lady Mustangs will travel to Athens next weekend to participate in a tournament at the University of Georgia.

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