AUBURN, Ala. - After falling behind 2-1, the Auburn volleyball team put together a late comeback to defeat Kennesaw State, 3-2 (25-18, 21-25, 15-25, 28-26, 15-10), Tuesday night in Auburn Arena.It was truly a hard-fought match, head coach Rick Nold said. Kennesaw State is a really good team and theyve proven that over the years. We wanted to make sure we were competing all the way through. Our team learned a lot about themselves in this match and were really aggressive at the end.The Tigers (1-3) had a trio of attackers with double-digit kills as senior Emily Klitzke led the way with a season-high 16. Sophomore Brenna McIlroy finished with 12 kills and 10 digs, while freshman Gwyn Jones chipped in 11 kills.Defensively, Auburn had four Tigers with double-digit digs in the teams 79-dig performance. Junior Jesse Earl totaled a season-best 26 digs, while classmate Kelly Stewart added 15. The backrow duo also had three aces a piece. Junior setter Alexa Filley totaled 13 digs to go with her 53 assists. Senior Breanna Barksdale finished with three blocks, while McIlroy and Jones totaled two.The Owls (1-3) were led by Liesl Engelbrecht with 14 kills and three blocks, while Amariah Boyer and Sydni Shelton finished with 13 and 12 kills, respectively. Setter Kristie Piedimonte had 46 assists and 10 digs and libero Katarina Morton had a match-high 27 digs.Auburn capitalized on KSU errors to open the first set and jumped out to a quick 12-4 lead. Back-to-back kills from Klitzke made it 16-6 and another Owl error put the home team up 20-7. KSU put together a solid run to close out the set before kills from McIlroy and Klitzke sealed a 25-18 win.It was back and forth to start set two until a four-point KSU run led to a 13-9 advantage. Kills from McIlroy and a Stewart ace locked the score at 14-14 and it was once again an exchange of points. Down 20-19, the Owls benefited from Tiger errors and took the set, 25-21.KSU used momentum following intermission and went up 7-4 in the third stanza. A handful of two-point runs lifted the Owls to a 19-10 lead and the visitors went up 2-1 in the match with a 25-15 set victory.Back-to-back kills by Barksdale put the Tigers ahead 3-2 in set four and back-to-back Auburn blocks made it 7-4. KSU used a timeout to regroup and battled back to take a slim lead at 8-7. The Owls held a slight margin throughout the rest of the set until a kill from freshman Enija Bidzane and an Earl ace tied it up at 21. Another Bidzane kill made it 23-all, but the Owls grabbed their first match-point at 24-23. After another KSU match-point (26-25), a kill from Stephanie Campbell and one from McIlroy put Auburn up 27-26. Jones sent the match into the fifth with a big kill, 28-26 Tigers.Auburns energy followed into set five and two-straight kills by Klitzke put the Tigers ahead 7-4. 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Charleston Southern self-reported the financial aid violations to the NCAA.Obviously, were missing some people that are some good players for us, Chadwell told local television station WCIV before boarding a bus headed to Tallahassee, Florida. The guys that were taking down there played and have helped us win before. Theres going to be some new guys. Obviously its not the situation you want to go in with a No. 3 or 4 team in the country. ... Well go in there and play. I think well be fine.In total, 32 football players must serve a one-game suspension. The suspensions will be staggered over the first two weeks of the season and two additional players will serve their suspensions at a later date, the school announced.Under NCAA rules, student-athletes may purchase books and school supplies with the financial aid provided to them to purchase books. Other items cannot be covered by that financial aid.CSU is continuing an internal review of possible NCAA rules violations within the athletics program, a statement from the school read. The university is working with the NCAA, the Big South Conference and an outside consultant during the process.WCIV reported that Charleston Southern will be missing 14 to 15 players on Saturday. The players were suspended for spending scholarship money allocated for books on other items, a source told ESPNs Brett McMurphy.Florida State paid Charleston Southern $475,000 for the game.Charleston Southern senior running back Ben Robinson posted Thursday on Facebook: So basically about 30+ players on my team including me have been suspended for using book money to buy other things in the book store like pencils, binders, and electronics, out of our school bookstore.dddddddddddd We would have leftover book money and the workers in the bookstore advised us to spend the money because we would not get it back, so we did.Chadwell told WCIV that he was unaware until Friday morning about the attention Robinsons Facebook post, and social media posts from other players, had received.Its obviously taken the country by storm, it seems, he said. Its unfortunate because I think it puts the focus on some other things instead of the good things that our team is doing and that our university is doing for us. But well get through it. And, hopefully, well represent ourself well on Saturday and try to regroup and get over this.When asked what he would tell his team about speaking out via social media, Chadwell said: We need to keep everything were dealing with in-house and protect our team. Thats what I tell our guys. No matter what you do, always protect your team. You can have a voice but just make sure youre reasonable with what youre saying.I always try to shed us in a positive light and not a negative. I think there were some good positive stuff that came out last night, but there were some negative things that didnt need to. Well work through that.Charleston Southern athletic director Hank Small announced last week that Chadwell and an unnamed assistant would serve a one-game suspension and several players would be held out against Kentucky State due to potential NCAA violations.Chadwells suspension was not related to the misuse of scholarship money, but because of the use of social media for recruiting.ESPNs Brett McMurphy contributed to this report. ' ' '