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

Wildcats Complete Weekend Sweep By Grounding LHU Bald Eagles

AMHERST, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's volleyball team is on a roll. The Wildcats completed a sweep of four matches at their own tournament - the Daemen Volleyball Classic presented by Millennium Buffalo - by taking down Lock Haven University 3-0 (25-20, 26-24, 25-17) today at Lumsden Gymnasium.

Daemen was the only team in the tournament field to not a suffer a loss this weekend, and they swept through the competition without dropping a single set, running their overall winning streak to six straight matches. The Wildcats sit at 8-3 on the season. Lock Haven, a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, dropped its second match of the day to fall to 6-4. 

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Daemen racked up 45 kills, matching their season-high for a three-set match which they set earlier today in a defeat of Glenville State. The Wildcats attacked at a .306 clip, marking their second match this weekend (also vs. Salem) and their third match of the season with above .300 hitting. 
  • Once again the Wildcats featured a balanced offensive attack with five players recording at least seven kills. That group was led by senior middle blocker/right-side hitter Meghan Ballou (Eden, N.Y.) who posted a season-high 10 kills. 
  • Courtney Bernard (Lancaster, Ohio), Jenn Heritz (Granger, Ind.), Allison Post (Windsor, Calif.) and Sam Logan (Eden, N.Y.) also contributed offensively, combining for 31 kills.
  • Georgia Wicker (Woodstock, Ill.) led the Wildcat setters with 20 assists, while Isa McCaffrey (North Royalton, Ohio) totaled 19. 
  • Ali Greenwood (North Aurora, Ill.) paced the Daemen defense with 16 digs, while Logan added 13. At the net, Daemen totaled seven blocks, getting four block assists from Ballou and three by both Heritz and Tirzah Peters (Amherst, N.Y.).
  • Breanna McDonald led LHU with 10 kills, while Kristen Nealon totaled 20 assists. 

HEAD COACH STEPHANIE ALBANO POST-GAME COMMENTS
"I thought we did a really gob job again with people contributing across the board. I really liked the message at the end of that last match. We cleaned up our transition in the middle, and we were able to score out of the middle and transition. That looked really smooth. So I really liked the improvement there. There's still some things we need to clean up heading into next weekend, but overall a really good weekend for us."

GAME NOTES
  • The win pushed Daemen to 6-1 at home this season. The Wildcats have won 12 of their last 13 home matches, and are 16-4 at Lumsden Gymnasium since the start of the 2018 season. 
  • It also marked Daemen's first win in the all-time series with Lock Haven. The Bald Eagles had won the only two prior meetings in 2014 and 2015. 
  • The Wildcats improved to 2-2 this season against Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference opponents. 
  • Heritz and Ballou were Daemen's representatives on the all-tournament team. Heritz averaged 2.67 kills per set on a .371 hitting percentage. Ballou matched with 2.67 kills per set on a .351 hitting percentage, while adding two solo blocks and eight block assists. In three tournaments this season, the Wildcats have had five different players selected to all-tournament teams. 

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
  • Mandy Behiels, Wilmington
  • Sarah Couch, Wilmington
  • Kristen Nealon, Lock Haven
  • Breanna McDonald, Lock Haven
  • Meghan Ballou, Daemen
  • Jenn Heritz, Daemen

UP NEXT
The Wildcats take their six-match winning streak into a difficult three-match stretch with matches Sunday, Sept. 29 against Molloy College and Pace University, followed by a Monday, Sept. 30 meeting with perennial NCAA tournament qualifier Adelphi University. Sunday's match at Molloy is both teams' East Coast Conference season opener, and it's a rematch of last season's ECC tournament championship game. 


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