GENESEO, N.Y. - The SUNY Geneseo women's volleyball team swept Brockport 3-0 at Carl Schrader Gymnasium on Tuesday night, improving to 14-7 overall and 8-1 in Empire 8 play.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Brockport scored the first point of the match, but Geneseo tied it at 3-3 and then took control with a 4-0 run, from 3-3 to 7-3. Ellie McLennan served the stretch, which included a kill from Kate Barba, two kills from Dyllan Thomas and a Brockport attack error. A kill from Molly McKinney and a Barba ace made it 9-4. After Brockport cut the lead to 9-7, back-to-back kills from Cory Elder and a Barba kill put Geneseo up 13-9. Geneseo scored four straight points, from 14-12 to 18-12, on two Brockport errors, a Barba kill and a Thomas kill. Sophie Hunter added kills for a 23-17 lead, but Brockport scored five straight to close within 23-22. Jessica Macken put down a kill off an Ayla Pas'cal set, and an ace from McKenna Callari closed the set 25-22.
- Geneseo opened the second set with a Hunter kill, and Callari served a Brockport error and a Barba kill for a 3-0 lead. After Brockport scored, the Knights ran off four straight points, from 3-1 to 7-1, with a Brockport error, a kill from Pas'cal, a Barba kill and a Hunter ace. Barba added another kill and a Brockport error pushed the lead to 9-3. Brockport answered with four straight points, including back-to-back aces, to cut it to 10-9, but Elder put down a kill and a block by McKinney and Elder made it 12-10. Geneseo built the lead back to 14-11 on kills from Elder and Barba. After Brockport tied the pace with a three-point run to trail 18-17, Geneseo closed the set on a 7-2 run, from 18-17 to 25-19. Thomas had a kill off a Barba set, Brockport committed a ball-handling error, and Elder had two kills, including the set-clincher, with Hunter adding back-to-back kills in between.
- Macken served the first four points of the third set, with a Hunter kill, an ace and two Brockport attack errors, both on blocks by Elder and one shared with Pas'cal, for a 4-0 lead. Hunter added two more kills, and Pas'cal had back-to-back kills to build a 9-5 lead, then Macken and Barba each added kills to make it 11-6. Brockport rallied to within 13-12 on a run that included two aces, but Geneseo scored four straight, from 12-13 to 17-12, behind a Thomas kill, a Hunter kill, a Zooey Gagnier ace and a Brockport error. Elder added two more kills, Pas'cal put down a kill for a 20-17 lead, and McLennan's ace made it 22-18. Barba and McKinney each had a kill, and a Brockport attack error closed the set 25-19. Geneseo hit .636 in the third set, with 15 kills and one error.
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WHAT'S NEXT?
The Knights stay at Schrader Gym on Friday, October 30th at 6 p.m. to host Houghton University.
