FLUSHING, N.Y. – The Daemen College women's volleyball rallied for a 3-2 victory over Queens College here this afternoon in East Coast Conference play. After dropping the first two sets (16-25, 20-25), the Wildcats posted back-to-back wins of 25-21 in sets three and four to force a fifth and deciding set. Daemen built an 11-4 lead in the fifth set and completed the comeback with a 15-11 victory. Daemen, which has won five of its last eight matches, improved to 8-5 overall and 2-0 in the ECC. The host Knights dropped to 2-10 overall and 0-2 in the league.

Sophomore Ashley Drzymala (West Seneca, N.Y./St. Mary's of Lancaster) paced the Wildcats with a team-high 12 kills, two service aces, eight digs and three blocks. Her sister Amber Drzymala (West Seneca, N.Y. / St. Mary's of Lancaster) added nine kills, three aces and a team-high 15 digs. Freshman Sydney MacInnis (Superior, Colo. / Fairview) chipped in 23 set assists, while redshirt sophomore Courtney Scanlan (Ellicottville, N.Y. / Stony Brook University) added nine kills and posted a team-high .400 hitting percentage.

Three players reach double digits in kills for Queens, as sophomore Nicoletta DiCocco (Bayport, N.Y.) led the way with a a game-high 13 kills. Junior Kristen Moore (Medford, N.Y.) added 43 set assists and three aces, while classmate Regina Anthony (Jamaica, N.Y.) chipped in 14 digs.

Queens jumped out to a 16-7 lead in the first set en route to an 25-16 victory. The Knights led by three (20–17) in set two when the hosts took control with four-straight points. Daemen built a 19-14 lead in set three, but the Knights rallied with four unanswered points to make it a 19-18 game. The teams traded points after that, before Daemen secured the 25-21 win following a kill by freshman Meghan Ballou (Eden, N.Y./Eden) and a service ace from MacInnis. Daemen built an early 7-3 lead in set four, but Queens answered with five-straight points and the hosts later took a 16-10 lead following a Daemen error. Daemen rallied following a timeout and tied the set at 19-19 following a kill by junior Rachel Stephenson (Hamburg, N.Y./Frontier), and the visitors outscored the Knights 6-2 down the stretch to force a fifth and final set.

The teams traded points early in the fifth set before Daemen rattled off five-straight points for an 8-2 lead. The lead grew to seven points, 11-4, before the hosts staged one final rally and cut the lead to three points, 12-9, following a kill by DiCocco. The teams traded points before back-to-back kills by Ashley Drzymala secured the win for Daemen.

Daemen is idle until next weekend when it hosts New York Institute of Technology (Oct. 1) and Long Island University Post (Oct. 2) in a league matches.

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