FLORENCE - The Newberry College volleyball team moved to 2-0 on the 2012 season with a 25-17, 25-18, 15-25, 26-24 victory over the homestanding Francis Marion Patriots in the Wolves' second match of the FMU Invitational on Friday.

Newberry closes out its weekend action tomorrow with matches against USC Aiken at 3 p.m. and Pfeiffer at 7 p.m. Francis Marion falls to 0-1 on the season with the loss.

Preseason first team all-South Atlantic Conference selection Samantha Parrish (Angola, Ind.) recorded her first double-double of the season with 19 kills and 11 digs, while Rachel Moran (Cypress, Texas) had her first career double-double with 18 assists and 12 digs.

Chelsea Mayor (Sugar Land, Texas) had seven kills and Lauren Prachar (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Elayni Stokes (Houston, Texas) tied for the team lead with 16 digs apiece. Blair Browning (New Lexington, Ohio) passed out a team high 20 assists and Madison Schultz (Bellmont, Ind.) had five kills with no errors.

The Wolves fell behind in the first set after being tied at 6-all, with FMU going on an 8-3 run to take a 14-9 lead. It was all Newberry for the rest of the set, scoring 11 points in a row to get ahead by a 20-14 count before taking the first set 25-17. Newberry only had a .000 hitting percentage in the set and it was not a particularly clean set, as the two teams combined for just 17 kills in the set.

Newberry improved its hitting by leaps and bounds in the second set, hitting .321 while FMU had nine hitting errors in the set. A 4-1 surge in the middle of the set as well as six Prachar digs in the set helped the Wolves take a 25-18 set win. The Patriots responded early in the third set by jumping out to a 10-4 lead and hitting .323 in the set with only one error to cruise to a 25-15 win in the set.

The fourth set was much tighter, with no team able to pull ahead by more than four points. Newberry led 20-16 and appeared ready to keep the Patriots at bay with a 24-21 lead and match point in hand. But the hosts scored three straight in an effort to force a fifth set. Newberry crushed that dream with kills from Mayor and Parrish to solidify the 26-24 win in the set and the match.