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The No. 20 Florida State Seminoles (2-0) continued its dominance of the Seminole Invitational as they defeated the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (0-2) after a sweep (25-17, 31-29, 25-22) on Saturday afternoon in the teams' first meeting since 2017.

The Noles fought well in the first set of the day against the Gauchos. The offensive power was showing its true strength through the first 15 points, creating a scoring gap between the two teams before the Gauchos minimized their errors, drawing closer to the Seminoles. The Seminoles closed off this set with an 8-1 scoring run thanks to some timely serving to win the first set 25-17. FSU outhit the Gauchos .318 to .091 in the first set with Kyleene Filimaua leading the way with three kills

The second set was back-and-forth throughout the entire set, but the Gauchos found a little separation taking a 21-19 lead. The Seminoles fought off six set points and finally prevailed as back-to-back kills by Filimaua gave the Noles its first set point of the set and Khori Louis smashed a perfect set to send Tully Gym into a frenzy to give the Noles a 31-29 win to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the match.

It was another close set in set three with the Gauchos once again taking a 21-19 lead, but FSU dominated late scoring six out of the final seven points capped off by a kill from Maddie Snider to end the match.

The offensive attacks were led by Taylor Head with an impressive 15 kills, with Khori Louis following close behind with 13 kills. The Seminoles destroyed the serving game, having a total of 10 serving aces between the three sets. The Noles finished with a .324 hitting percentage, while holding the Gauchos to a .237 percentage.

The Seminoles will conclude the Seminole Invitational tomorrow against the No. 25 Georgia Bulldogs at 3 p.m. on the ACC Network.

Adam Fuller didn’t call any of Florida State’s players “soft.” But the mere mention of that word with the Seminoles’ performance and being “soft in the edges” raises eyebrows from an FSU coaching staff that is cautious with how it criticizes.

“Sometimes you want guys to go do your job and then what happens is some guys worry about, ‘Well what if this happens? I gotta make sure I can do this and then come back and make a play.’ And that creates soft edges,” Fuller said. “They (GT) did a good job, they've got good ball carriers, especially with the quarterback, he's got legitimate speed, he ran around the edge two or three times on us. Some was for lack of edge, some obviously we didn't either anticipate the speed that he had or he was able to get the corner.

“You want to eliminate space and the quickest way to eliminate space is to draw a hard edge so there's lack of space.”

Defensive ends coach John Papuchis later added that he thought the Seminoles were “tentative” in the run game and wants to see them play faster and with more aggression against Boston College on Monday (7:30 p.m. on ESPN).