GETTYSBURG, Pa. - After a back-and-forth first set, Gettysburg used strong defense to pull away from the McDaniel College volleyball team over the final two sets in a 26-24, 25-13, 25-14 victory Wednesday night inside Bream Gymnasium.
The Green Terror (8-12, 1-6 CC) were hampered by 20 attack errors and a .021 hitting percentage compared to 44 kills and a .287 hitting percentage for the Bullets.
Sophomore
Mariya Carson led McDaniel with eight kills and hit .318 while adding two total blocks. Junior
Stephanie Buttons collected a team-high 12 digs and junior
Cassy Poteet finished with 11 assists and three digs. Senior
Abigayle Bowley recorded four kills on eight attacks and added two block assists.
McDaniel put itself in position to take the first set, jumping out to a 14-6 behind an ace by senior
Reese Beck, block by Carson, Bowley, sophomore
Kaitlyn Saidat and junior
Christiana Alapa, and kills from Alapa and Bowley. The Green Terror led 24-22 after a Gettysburg attack error, but the Bullets scored the final four points with three kills and an ace to take the two-point victory.
The Green Terror could not recover after Gettysburg built an early 10-3 lead in the second set. Carson had kills from Poteet and junior
Kaylee Comstock, while Buttons added a service ace during a short Green Terror stretch that brought the score to 18-10.
In the third set, McDaniel trailed by just one, 11-10, following a Carson kill, but Gettysburg scored the next five points to push the set to 16-10. The Green Terror answered with block assists by Saidat and Alapa block before an ace by Beck during a three-point stretch to pull the visitors within three, but they would get just one more point as the Bullets pulled away from there.
McDaniel finishes the regular season with three of its final four matches at home, beginning with Muhlenberg this Saturday for Senior Day. Prior to the match at 1 p.m., the team will honor its five seniors in Beck, Bowley,
Abigail May,
Chaeli Flotildes, and
Renita Bankole-Gibson.
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