WORCESTER, Mass. - The Saint Michael's College women's volleyball team lost to Assumption University, 3-2 (25-22, 16-25, 29-27, 22-25, 15-6), during its Northeast 10 Conference opener on Saturday in Laska Gymnasium.
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RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (3-10, 0-1 NE10), Assumption (5-11, 1-0 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Junior D'Niaya Settles (Ames, Iowa/Ames), 16 kills, .424 hitting
- Sophomore Tessa LaFrenier (Narragansett, R.I./North Kingstown/Adelphi), 11 kills, 12 digs, 2 blocks
- Sophomore Rory Tower (Fountain Hills, Ariz./Desert Mountain), 11 kills, 4 blocks
- Sophomore Lillie King (Livermore, Calif./Carondelet), 7 kills
- Junior Mahili McKay (Oakland, Calif./Bishop O'Dowd), 5 kills
- Senior Ashley Marshall (Escondido, Calif./Escondido Charter), 23 assists
- Sophomore Abby Crowley (Westerly, R.I./La Salle Academy), 14 assists, 9 digs, 2 aces
- Junior Anna Daggett (Hinesburg, Vt./Champlain Valley Union), 11 digs, 2 aces
- First-year Sarah Gordon (Dyer, Ind./Marian Catholic), 10 digs
- Sophomore Caitlin Mediate (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth), 8 digs, 4 assists, 2 aces
OPPONENT LEADERS
- First-year Cate Wettstone, 14 kills, 4 blocks
- Junior Kaitlyn Montgomery, 13 kills, .435 hitting, 5 blocks
- Junior Lily Petrocelli, 12 kills
- Sophomore Brooke Bowbliss, 34 assists, 5 aces, 4 kills, .667 hitting
- Sophomore Makenna Glenn, 21 digs, 7 assists
THE ACTION
- The Purple Knights erased a 22-19 deficit in the opening set with three straight points, with Daggett dropping two aces in the stretch. After a visitor attack error, Bowbliss capped the set with two aces.
- After trailing 4-2, Saint Michael's netted four points in a row - with LaFrenier dropping a kill and Mediate an ace - to go ahead for good.
- The team played through 11 ties in set No. 3, as the Purple Knights were ahead 23-19 and eventually held six set points as the stanza extended into extra points. Tower's kill made it 27-26, but Petrocelli sandwiched kills around a Saint Michael's error to cap a clinching 3-0 run.
- Eleven more ties were featured in the fourth set, when LaFrenier had four kills in a go-ahead 6-0 run that put the visitors up 19-15. Assumption twice cut the deficit to two points, but Settles and McKay countered with kills, including McKay downing hers to win the set.
- The Greyhounds scored the first seven points in the fifth set en route to leading 11-1 and never looked back.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH
- Tuesday vs. Franklin Pierce University, 7 p.m.
- The Purple Knights play a Hope Happens Here Mental Health Awareness Match that day.
