Sacramento State volleyball put last week’s disappointmentsbehind them on Thursday night by delivering the biggest blowout inprogram history upon its return to the Hornets Nest.

By the time the match was over was over, just 63 minutes afterit began, at least one Hornet felt like she’d barely started.

“It felt like we were only playing games to 10 (points),”sophomore outside hitter Shannon Roland said. “It was over thatquick.”

The Hornets (22-7, 10-3 Big Sky) delivered a 3-0 (30-10, 30-9,30-14) beat down of an Idaho State (11-16, 7-6) squad that defeatedthem 3-1 just three weeks ago in Pocatello, Idaho.

The 33 points allowed were the fewest — by far — forSac State since the NCAA went to the rally scoring system in 2001.Previously the Hornets fewest points surrendered were 46 to TexasA&M-Chorpus Christi in 2002.

Roland hit a career high .643 in the match adding 10 kills andtouched the ball on the final point in all three games, recording akill to end game one, an ace to win game two and coming up with adig on the final play in game three.

Sac State utilized a 15 point run, served out by junior liberoMallory Hook, to fly out to a 20-5 lead in game one, takingadvantage of six Bengal errors in the run. The Hornets committedseven errors in the entire match, riding a .452 hitting percentage– the second best in the program’s Div. I history — tovictory.

Senior middle hitter Emily Wilson paced the Hornets with 12kills a .500 hitting percentage and five blocks.

“It feels really good to beat this team down here,” Wilson said.”They were talking some major smack when we played at theirplace.

“Stuff like, ‘Oh, how does it feel to be jealous?'”

The jealousy appeared to be on the Bengals side of thenet as they were clearly a team out of sync. Sets to open areaswithout hitters, miscommunication and ball control all doomed theIdaho State as it committed 26 total errors and hit just .010.Senior outside hitter Ali Gorny led her team with seven kills andadded nine digs in the losing effort.

The Hornets, on the other hand, only got better with age postingimproved hitting percentages in each successive game and hit ascintillating .485 in the third and closing game to avenge aconference road loss for the third straight homestand.

“We play better because we have more confidence at home,”outside hitter Sandra Bandimere. “I don’t know why, maybe it’s ourbright yellow floor.”

The senior outside hitter and team captain scored on three ofeight attacks in the frame and ended up with seven kills and 11digs; with the digs she is now the second Hornet in the last threeyears to have 400 kills and 400 digs in the same season.

Despite the win, Sac State’s chances of hosting the six-team BigSky tournament are still bleak as conference leading EasternWashington (18-6, 11-1) needs to win just one match over the nexttwo days to clinch hosting rights. The Eagles play at sixth placeMontana (6-16, 3-9) tomorrow night and at third place Montana State(16-7, 8-4).

The Hornets have won the Big Sky title match the last twoseasons at Reese Court in Cheney, Wash., as the No. 2 seed in thetournament, both times over host Eastern Washington.

“It’s nothing new,” Bandimere said. “We’ve done it two years ina row.

“We work extra hard in the tournament because we know all theother teams want it just as bad as we do.”