AMHERST, N.Y.- The Daemen College volleyball team continued to roll during its homestand, beating the Long Island University Post Pioneers in four sets (25-17, 14-25, 25-22, 26-24) to avenge a loss to the Pioneers earlier in the year, splitting the season series between the two schools.  This was the third of five straight matches the Wildcats will play at home- and they've won all three so far. Daemen is now 11-9 overall, and 5-5 in East Coast Conference play, while LIU Post fell to 17-6 overall and 6-3 in ECC competition.
 
The opening set was a back-and-forth affair in the early going, before the Wildcats took command with an 8-0 run in the middle of the frame to build an 18-12 lead. From there, Daemen would hold on for a 25-17 victory. However, LIU Post quickly erased any momentum the Wildcats might have built with that opening-set win, as they stormed out to a 15-4 lead in the second frame and coasted to a 25-14 win to even the match at a set apiece.
 
Daemen would regain the lead in sets with a strong bounce-back performance in the third. The Pioneers built off their dominant second-set win and held the lead for most of the third frame, but the Wildcats battled back and went on a 6-0 run to claim the lead for good at 21-17 en route to a 25-22 win and a two-sets-to-one lead in the match.
 
Unlike the last time Daemen went up a set on LIU Post, the Wildcats would keep the Pioneers from getting back into the match. The fourth set was close the whole way through, with the lead often never being more than a single point, but with the score tied 24-24, Daemen snagged the final two points to close out the set and the match, three sets to one.

Daemen received a number of strong performances in their win. Seniors Kaley Vazquez (Kenmore, N.Y./Kenmore West), Kaitlin Watchey (Jamestown, N.Y./Jamestown), Brittany Anthon (Lancaster, N.Y./Lancaster) and Paige Tilert (Derby, N.Y./Lake Shore) and juniors Lindsay Nowak (West Seneca, N.Y./Immaculata), Ye Wang (Beijing, China/Hachioji Jissen) and Chelsea Turcer (Alexander, N.Y./Alexander Central), as well as freshman Amber Dryzmala (West Seneca, N.Y./ St. Mary's of Lancaster all keyed the Wildcats' effort.
 
Four players (Tilert-17, Dryzmala-16, Anthon-13, and Vazquez-12) had double-digit digs.  Four Wildcats, Wang, Nowak, Watchey and Anthon had double-digit kills, with 14, 13, 12 and 11, respectively with Watchey's production being a season-high. Turcer had 19 assists, second only to Vazquez, who picked up a double-double with 21 assists to go along with her 12 digs. Anthon's 13 digs and 11 kills gave her a double-double as well.
 
LIU Post got big matches from Lulu Centro, Makamae Namahoe, Melissa Hansen and Katie Hudencial. Centro led the team with 32 assists, Namahoe and Hansen paced the Pioneers with 11 kills apiece, and Hudencial had a team-best 12 digs.
 
Daemen continues their homestand tomorrow at 11 a.m., hosting the New York Institute of Technology Bears at Lumsden Gymnasium. NYIT is currently one of the top teams in the ECC, with a 19-2 overall record and a 7-1 mark in conference play.