MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Southeast Missouri women's volleyball (7-6) opened the Beale Street Challenge with a pair of wins Friday at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse. SEMO prevailed over the Mid-American Conference's Toledo (6-4), 3-1 (25-22, 17-25, 25-23, 25-20), before sweeping North Alabama (2-10), 25-10, 25-12, 25-23.
 
Mikayla Kuhlmann paced the Redhawks with a season high 18 kills on a .471 hitting clip in the Beale Street Challenge opener against Toledo. Annie Wehrheim added 12. Laney Malloy chipped in 10 with 11 digs for her sixth double-double this season. 
 
In the late afternoon sweep of UNA, Claire Ochs followed up her season-best 48 assists against UT with her 25th career double-double that included 26 assists with 11 digs versus the Lions.  
 
SEMO jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first set with their noon contest against Toledo. That advantage grew to 12-5 after kills from Malloy, Berns and Kuhlmann.
 
A 4-0 run by the Redhawks widened the gap to 20-11. Malloy had three kills in the rally and posted five in the opening frame. 
 
Wehrheim added a kill before a Rockets error made the lead 10, 22-12.
 
Toledo stormed back with five straight points to cut the deficit to 22-17. The Rockets came within two before a Malloy rally stopper sealed the set, 25-22. 
 
Southeast connected at a .333 pace in the first set. 
 
Toledo then evened the contest at 1-1 with a 25-17 second set. 
 
In the third frame, SEMO started with a 6-3 edge after Talia Gouard notched a kill then assisted on a block with Claire Ochs. 
 
The Rockets then registered six unanswered points to take a 9-6 lead and prompt a Redhawks timeout. 
 
A kill from Wehrheim knotted the set at 13-13 as the frame saw eight tie score lines and four lead changes. Wehrheim led SEMO in the set with four rally stoppers on a .500 hitting percentage.
 
Two kills from Kuhlmann along with a winner from Maggie Adams gave SEMO a two-point edge, 19-17.
 
Toledo retook the lead, 21-19, with a 4-0 run. Southeast then responded with a 5-0 rally to bring on set point, 24-21. 
 
SEMO then grabbed the set and a 2-1 match advantage on a Rockets attack error, 25-23.
 
The Redhawks notched a .371 hitting mark in the final set while registering the first three points. Malloy then blasted a kill to tie the frame at 6-6. 
 
A 4-0 SEMO rally that featured kills from Kuhlmann and Malloy combined with an Ally Dion service ace grew the distance between the two teams, 14-10. 
 
Wehrheim added a rally stopper before a pair of Emily Boggetto service aces propelled the lead to 18-13. 
 
Kuhlmann knocked two of her six fourth set kills to provide the Redhawks with a 23-16 advantage.
 
The Rockets rallied off four straight points to pull within one, 22-21, before kills from Kuhlmann and Dion sealed the match, 25-20. 
 
Beilsmith led the defense with 17 digs and Dion added 14. 
 
Dion, Boggetto and Ochs each had two service aces in the match with Toledo. 
 
Dion is now tied for second with Julie Shives in Southeast program history (25-point rally scoring era from 2008 to present) with 87 career service aces. 
 
In the late afternoon match with North Alabama, Southeast hit at a .579 pace while bursting out to a 10-2 advantage in the first set. Beilsmith registered both of her aces in the rally that also featured kills by Malloy and Wehrheim. 
 
A pair of rally stoppers from Gouard along with some Lions errors brought the advantage to 21-9. 
 
Malloy and Dion each connected with kills before a Gouard block finished the set at 25-10. 
 
Southeast improved to 2-0 in the match with a 25-12 second frame win. 
 
Kills from Ochs and Malloy along with a Malloy service ace extended the lead to 12-4.
 
Wehrheim chipped in a winner as the Lions had started to close the gap, 16-10. 
 
Malloy then blasted a kill to start a 7-0 Redhawks rally to close out the set, 25-12. Malloy had three of her four personal best services while serving down the stretch in the second frame. 
 
The third set was the most competitive of the three with the Lions.
 
North Alabama started the set with an 8-4 lead that grew to 12-6. 
 
Malloy belted a kill before a Lions attack error evened the set at 15-15.
 
She then added a rally stopper followed by a block by Gouard and a kill by Ochs as SEMO pulled ahead 19-17. 
 
UNA committed consecutive errors to provide Southeast with a 24-22 edge. Nura Abakar tallied a kill before a Lions attack error concluded the match in the Redhawks favor, 25-23. 
 
SEMO out blocked North Alabama, 8-1. Gouard matched a career best of five in the match. 
 
Beilsmith was second on the Redhawks with nine digs and Dion had seven.
 
Malloy posted eight kills and Adams notched a season high six kills. 
 
Southeast closes out the Beale Street Challenge Saturday against tournament host Memphis 1 p.m. at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.