Alabama women’s volleyball celebrated its first win in Foster Auditorium Tuesday night against Alabama A&M in just three sets.

Up to this point, the Crimson Tide, now 3-1, has been plagued by inconsistencies and hitting errors, but its performance tonight proved that the team has every intention of turning that around.

“I think we really executed well,” setter Andrea McQuaid said. “We were struggling this past weekend, and I think that something that we really wanted to focus on for the tournament was hitting errors, and we did a great job of executing on hitting errors. I think we hit in the .300s, which makes it a great day for us. Reducing the errors in that area is really looking up for us.”

Alabama did just that, as its hitting percentage for the match was .356.

McQuaid finished the match with seven kills and a hitting percentage of .412.

Head coach Ed Allen said that tonight’s match is great for the team to build on as they look forward to the rest of the season.

“They were really excited to get the chance to play at home, and I think it reflected in the start that we had and the energy they played with in all three sets,” Allen said.

Allen said he was pleased with the level of play tonight.

Sophomore Pricilla Duke-Ezeji led the team with eight kills and a hitting percentage of .278.

Duke-Ezeji said that having the opportunity to play in Foster was exciting for everyone, and its play showed that.

Alabama, whose goal from the start was to play with a sense of consistency, was able to use their team chemistry to their advantage tonight.

“It was better than most matches that we’ve played. It’s something that we’ve been working on in practice, and we definitely carried that over into today,” Duke-Ezeji said.

The scores of the three sets were very telling in the fact that they remained almost identical each time. The Tide won the first, second and third matches, 25-11, 25-11 and 25-12, respectively.

“I feel like we really controlled our side of the net tonight,” McQuaid said. “One thing that we made everyone aware of in the locker room after the second set and in the third set, we didn’t pass as well as we wanted to, but we made up for it by executing in other areas. We just need to keep on playing with consistency, and that’s how 11, 11 and 12 comes out in a score, so it shows.”