KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Lady Tiger volleyball opened the NCCAA Championship with a 3-0 sweep (25-11, 25-17, 25-16) over Oakland City and head coach Amy Zink reached win No. 200 in her career.
 
Second-seeded Campbellsville (27-9) will now play its second game of Pool Play action at 6 p.m. ET vs. Southern Wesleyan University in the Kissimmee Civic Center.
 
Campbellsville finished hitting .440 overall with 41 kills and only eight errors. Oakland City struggled by recording 26 kills and 24 errors but Campbellsville's front roll played havoc with nine blocks.

Annija Abolina and Maria Coelho led the Lady Tigers with a match-high 11 kills. Abolina finished with only one error and hit .556, while Coelho had two errors and hit .450. Julia Fonseca was close behind with nine kills.

Katie Harris led CU with 30 assists, while Marcella Compeau had eight digs.
 
Campbellsville started on fire and never slowed. Led by Maliyah Tela at the service line, the Lady Tigers started the opening frame with an 11-0 run before an error by Tela – the only one of the set.
 
In that opening run, the Lady Tigers were hitting .429 with three kills and one error on seven attacks. CU pushed that lead to 23-10 and finished the opening set with a 25-11 win. The Lady Tigers hit a season-high .519 in the opening frame with 15 kills and only the one error.
 
Oakland City woke up in the second set but Campbellsville rallied throughout the middle portion. With the set tied at 12-all, the Lady Tigers finished the second frame on a 13-5 run.

The third set was also all CU. The Lady Tigers led 11-6 before Oakland City called a timeout but Campbellsville was just too much for the Mighty Oaks to overcome.
 
The win for CU is the 200^th in coach Amy Zink's career, as she is the winningest volleyball coach in program history and seventh in CU history with 200-plus wins.