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West Liberty WLU 2-2,0-0 MEC
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Winner Daemen DAE 2-2,0-0 ECC
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Daemen DAE
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West Liberty WLU 11 18 23 (0)
Daemen DAE 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | CONTACT: Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate A.D. for External Operations & Communications | (716) 839-8385 | mmiranto@daemen.edu

Women's Volleyball Completes Saturday Sweep

Wildcats Take Down West Liberty Hilltoppers In Three Sets

DETROIT, Mich - The Daemen women's volleyball team wrapped up day two of the Warrior Invitational with a 3-0 victory (25-11, 25-18, 25-23) over West Liberty this afternoon at the Matthaei Volleyball Facility on the campus of Wayne State. The victory gave the Wildcats a sweep of today's action as they even their record at 2-2 this season.

Caitlyn Meyer (Clarence, N.Y.), Sam Logan (Eden, N.Y.) and Allison Post (Windsor, Calif.) - the same trio that led the Wildcats to a 3-1 victory over defending Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champion East Stroudsburg to open today's action - were the offensive stars for the Wildcats again. The trio combined for 40 of Daemen's 51 kills in the match. The Wildcats posted a season-best .324 hitting percentage and limited the Hilltoppers to just 26 kills on a .151 hitting percentage. 

West Liberty, an affiliate of the Mountain East Conference, had defeated Walsh earlier today and East Stroudsburg during yesterday's tournament action. The Hilltoppers dropped to 2-2 on the season. 

IMPACT PLAYERS
  • Meyer had another impressive match as the Wildcats' primary right side hitter, totaling a season-high 16 kills. She did so while committing just three htiting errors, resulting in a .464 hitting percentage. Meyer was making her Daemen debut this weekend after playing the first four years of her collegiate career at Division I James Madison.
  • After totaling four service aces vs. Walsh, Logan put down five more this afternoon - one shy of her career-best effort. She added 13 kills, bringing her career total to 499. 
  • Post reached double-figure kills for the second time today, finishing with 11, while Vanessa Kuliga (Glenview, Ill.) and Loren Alberts (Huntley, Ill.) split 10 kills out of the middle of Daemen's offense.
  • Sophomore Olivia Alessi (East Aurora, N.Y.) exclusively handled setting duties for the Wildcats and finished with a season-high 44 assists. 
  • Defensively, sophomore Jasmine Brundage (East Aurora, N.Y.) and junior Mickaley Monahan (Saline, Mich.) combined for 17 digs.
  • Madison Clayton, a 6-foot-5 middle blocker who earned First Team All-MEC honors last season, was the top performer for WLU. She finished with nine kills and three blocks. 

TURNING POINT
Daemen dominated the opening set, jumping out to a 15-5 advantage thanks in part to the serving of Logan and Brundage. The lead reached 22-7 before the Hilltoppers could muster any kind of success, but it was too late by then,

The Wildcats trailed only briefly in the second and third sets. It was 23-14 in the third before West Liberty put together their best spurt of the match, an 8-0 run that pulled prompted two Daemen timeouts and pulled them within 23-22. Daemen picked up kills from Logan and Alberts to get the two necessary points to close out the match. 

GAME NOTES
  • Today's match marked just the second all-time meeting between the Wildcats and Hilltoppers with Daemen evening the series at 1-1. The teams last met in 2019 when WLU scored a 3-2 victory at the Cal (Pa.) Vulcan Invitational. 
  • West Liberty posted a 7-4 record during the abbreviated 2020 season, and was picked third in the MEC North Division preseason coaches' poll, while Daemen was picked second in the East Coast Conference preseason coaches' poll.
  • The Warrior Invitational is the first of three tournaments that Daemen will compete in this season. They'll also partake in the Cavalier Invitational as well as the Redhawks Invitational. 
  • Daemen's 18-player roster includes 12 returning players, three of whom - Allison Post, Sam Logan and Ali Cousins - remain from the Wildcats' 2018 NCAA tournament team. 
  • Daemen's matches at the Warrior Invitational mark the program's first in the state of Michigan since opening the 2015 season at the Laker Riverfront Classic hosted by Grand Valley State.
  • Meyer appeared in all 14 sets this weekend and totaled a team-high 46 kills (3.29 kills/set) on a .315 hitting percentage. She's posted 10 or more kills in three of Daemen's four matches this season. 
  • Brundage also appeared in all 14 sets and totaled a team-high 54 digs (3.86 digs/set).

UP NEXT
Daemen returns to tournament action next weekend (September 10-11) at the Cavalier Invitational hosted by Walsh, where they'll face Davenport, Notre Dame (Ohio) and Mercyhurst.

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