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Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | By Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate A.D. for External Operations & Communications

Wildcats Earn Split On Opening Day Of Post Eagles Invitational

WATERBURY, Conn. - The Daemen College women's volleyball team continued its tour of early season tournaments today, splitting a pair of matches at the Post Eagles Invitational. The Wildcats opened the day with a gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to Le Moyne College (22-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 13-15), but bounced back to defeat Bentley University 3-0 (28-26, 25-11, 25-20). 

The day's results bring Daemen's overall record to 3-6 this season. Both Le Moyne (5-1) and Bentley (1-6) are members of the Northeast-10 Conference and the NCAA Division II East Region. Daemen is now 44-26 in all regional matches since the start of the 2015 season, including a 14-7 mark in regular season, non-conference regional meetings. 

Le Moyne got 15 kills apiece from Marguerite Dillon and Mary Talty, as well as a match-high 50 assists from Emily Yancone en route to their five-set victory. Mikayla Porr led the w, ay defensively with 21 digs, while Yancone added a baker's dozen. 

Sophomore Jenn Hertiz (Granger, Ind.) paced the Wildcats with a match-high 16 kills. Freshman Sam Logan (Eden, N.Y.) and junior Cristina Apostol (Bucharest, Romania) put down 14 kills apiece, and junior Meghan Ballou (Eden, N.Y.) also reached double figures with 11. Logan added a season-high 17 digs to record the second double-double of her career.

Freshman setter Isa McCaffrey (North Royalton, Ohio), the reigning East Coast Conference Rookie of the Week, totaled 41 assists in the loss, while sophomores Ali Greenwood (North Aurora, Ill.) and Georgia Wicker (Woodstock, Ill.) split 26 digs between them. 

After Le Moyne took a 2-1 lead in the match, Daemen responded with a dominating fourth set. The Wildcats hammered down 16 kills and hit .500 as a team in the set. That set the stage for a fifth and deciding set. Trailing 13-10 in the fifth, the Wildcats battled back with three consecutive points to tie things up. Kills by Courtney Bernard (Lancaster, Ohio) and Heritz followed by a Ballou service ace brought things back to square. But, Le Moyne closed out the set after a Wildcat service error and a win-clinching kill by Jessica Miller.

The Wildcats and Dolphins share a budding rivalry that has really developed over the last several seasons. Today's meeting marked the seventh consecutive season that the teams have met, and three of the last four meetings have gone to five sets. The teams meet again on October 9 in Syracuse at Le Moyne's Ted Grant Court.

In the win over Bentley, the efforts of sophomore Tirzah Peters (Amherst, N.Y..) and Apostol helped the Wildcats control the middle of the net, both offensively and defensively. The duo combined for 24 kills on a .553 hitting percentage to go along with six block assists. Peters' 13 kills matched her career-high which she established in the Wildcats' 2018 season opener, a 3-1 defeat of NE-10 member College of Saint Rose on August 24. 

Bernard chipped in with eight kills on 15 attempts, her highest total since notching 10 kills in the 2016 East Regional finals against American International. The 6-foot redshirt junior missed all of the 2017 season with an injury, but has battled back to appear in eight of the team's nine matches this season.

McCaffrey totaled 35 assists while Logan dug out a team-best 16 balls. The Wildcats' .279 hitting percentage in the match was a season-best. 

Mallory Burbage paced Bentley with nine kills and 11 digs. Krista Campbell set the table with 22 assists. The Falcons, picked fourth in the NE-10 preseason poll, are coming off 19-10 season in 2017. 

Tournament play continues Sunday with Daemen facing two more regional opponents in defending Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference champion Caldwell University (9.30 a.m.) and tournament host Post University (1:30 p.m.).

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