MOBILE, Ala. – The Samford University volleyball team dropped the final two matches of the Jaguar Invitational to Houston Baptist University and the University of South Alabama on Saturday, Sept. 12^th, inside Jag Gym.

The Bulldogs (3-4) opened the day's competition against the Huskies (6-4) and nearly pulled off their third-straight five set victory. HBU took the first set of the match 25-19 and forced Samford to play from behind for the fourth-straight match.

Freshman outside Krista Boesing jump started Samford's offense in the second set with a 7 kill (.538) performance and led the way to a 25-22 win in the set. Boesing later was named to the Jaguar Invitational All-Tournament Team.

Samford continued to rally in the third set and eventually took it 25-21 over Houston Baptist.

From there the Bulldogs would drop the next five sets with the first two being the deciding factors in the 3-2 (25-19, 22-25, 21-25, 25-18,16-14) loss to the Huskies.

South Alabama (5-4) capped off the night by taking down Samford in three-straight sets (25-22, 25-19, 25-17). Boesing again paced Samford with 11 kills to finish the invitational with 40 total kills (3.08 k/s) on the weekend.

Redshirt Freshman Kate Niesler and redshirt sophomore T.J. Russell followed up Boesing with 33 kills apiece for the invitational.

The Bulldogs return to action for their final road swing when they travel to the Morehead State Invitational on Friday, Sept. 18^th.