Three points into the Idaho State volleyball team's 25-20, 25-17, 25-19 victory over Seattle on Friday, Emily Waldron made another mark in the Bengals' record book.

The senior outside hitter smashed the ball to put Idaho State up 3-0 in the opening set at Reed Gym, and along with giving the Bengals early command, the kill was Waldron's 1,000th of her career, making her the ninth Bengal ever to reach that mark. Earlier in the season, she recorded her 1,000th career dig and point, so the kills milestone made Waldron the fifth in program history to reach 1,000 in each category.

In typical fashion, though, the humble Waldron didn't want to dwell on her feat.

"It's important, and it's an honor," Waldron said. "At the same time, it's not really my main goal."

Her teammates weren't about to downplay the achievement in similar fashion.

"It's super awesome," sophomore outside hitter Jaclyn Hone said. "It's fun to play with a player like that, especially playing the same position. Hopefully, I'll follow in her path. I wanna be just like her."

On Friday, at least, Hone did her best to match Waldron, as the two led the Bengals (9-10, 3-5 Big Sky) in kills - the senior tallied 14, the sophomore 10 - in the relatively easy victory over the Redhawks (5-17), a team transitioning to Division I status.

Idaho State fell behind 2-0 in the second set and 1-0 in the third, but other than that the score was tied or the Bengals led the entire way.

"It feels good. It's nice to always have a win at home to get back on track and set the tone for the rest of the week," Waldron said.

The most drama in the match came in the third game when an Idaho State dig appeared well on its way to the upper deck after a ferocious Seattle hit. Instead of sailing out of play, though, the ball hit one of the raised basketball hoops, rattled around for a few seconds and dropped down in play for the Bengals.

After the lucky break, Idaho State won the point following an extended rally to go ahead 9-8 in the set, a lead it'd never relinquished.

"That kind of saved us that play," Hone said. "That was funny."

Not everything went the Bengals' way, though.

Idaho State committed 13 services errors in the match, which allowed the Redhawks to hang around. The Bengals also recorded eight aces, but that ace to error ratio was nowhere near where coach Chad Teichert would like it to be.

"Poor concentration, lack of focus. That's what I attribute it to, and we can't do that," Teichert said. "You can't give away 13. You expect a few, but the ace to error ratio should be fairly close."

Idaho State will have a chance to fix that area of its game when it hosts Utah Valley at 7 tonight.

Still, no matter what else happened in the match, the Bengals won in straight sets, and Waldron continued to stake her claim as one of the best players ever to wear an Idaho State uniform.

Again, it's up to a teammate to brag for her, though.

"She's just really well-rounded," Hone said. "She's just a really balanced player who can play every aspect of the game, and she's really good at it, obviously. She's a big leader on our team."