AMHERST, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's volleyball team split a pair of matches today at Quealy Gymnasium, falling to host Molloy College (17-25, 15-25, 16-25) in their East Coast Conference season opener before downing non-conference foe Pace University (25-15, 25-21, 25-21).
The Wildcats moved to 9-4 on the season, and 0-1 in ECC play following today's action. Molloy improved to 10-3 overall and 2-3 in league play, while Pace, a member of the Northeast-10 Conference, dropped to 1-11.
The match against Molloy was a rematch of the 2018 ECC tournament finals won by Daemen. Molloy snapped a three-match slide against Daemen as Kacey Affrunti and Carly Banks totaled 11 kills apiece. Sophia Smith notched a match-high 26 assists for the hosts.
Allison Post (Windsor, Calif.) led Daemen with 11 kills, and
Ali Greenwood (North Aurora, Ill.) contributed a match high 13 digs.
Against Pace, Daemen attacked at a .318 clip and got 12 kills apiece from Post and
Jenn Heritz (Granger, Ind.).
Georgia Wicker (Woodstock, Ill.) and
Isa McCaffrey (North Royalton, Ohio) split 28 assists, and Greenwood added a match-high 17 digs. Post added 11 digs for the fifth double-double of her career.
"It was a tough outing against Molloy," said head coach
Stephanie Albano. "We struggled with our game plan. But, I like how we responded in the next match. We learned and got better."
Daemen returns to action tomorrow afternoon when they face perennial NCAA tournament qualifier Adelphi University.
