Behind tournament Most Valuable Player Val Jeffery, the Youngstown State volleyball team hit .416 to complete a perfect weekend at the Belmont Invitational.

After sweeping Evansville on Friday, the Penguins followed Saturday morning's sweep of Belmont with a 3-0 win over Kennesaw State. The scores were 25-18, 25-23, 25-13.

Jeffery finished with 37 assists and averaged 11.11 assists at the tournament. She was joined on the all-tournament team by Lexi Egler and Aly Ryan.

Egler had a match-best 14 kills and 10 digs, and Shannon Watson had 10 kills. Ryan was part of seven of YSU's 12 blocks.

"Our offense was really on track this afternoon," YSU head coach Mark Hardaway said. "Kennesaw State is so athletic that I wasn't sure if we could win at the net, and we really did a great job hitting and blocking. Except for our serving, we played really well. I'm so proud that this team survived every push by all three opponents and got three sweeps."

Anaiah Boyer had six kills to lead Kennesaw State.

The Penguins trailed only once the entire match, and it came early in the first set. The Owls jumped out to a 6-2 lead, and YSU's first advantage didn't come until an attack error by KSU's Megan McGuinness made the score 12-11. A kill by Watson capped a 9-2 run that put the Penguins up 16-12, and YSU led by at least three the rest of the way.

Kennesaw State made a late charge in the second set to give YSU its closest set of the weekend at 25-23, but it was all Penguins in the third set. Youngstown State scored 12 of the first 13 points of the set, with nine of those points coming on Lauren Blanco's serve. 

Youngstown State will play four matches in Pittsburgh next weekend at the Duquesne/Robert Morris Invitational.