Women's volleyball lineup 2017
Clint Faust
2
Immaculata IUVB 1-2
3
Winner Penn State Berks PSBW 1-4
Immaculata IUVB
1-2
2
Final
3
Penn State Berks PSBW
1-4
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Immaculata IUVB 25 25 19 15 9 (2)
Penn State Berks PSBW 17 16 25 25 15 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Volleyball rallies from 0-2 deficit for first win of 2017

READING, PA - The Penn State Berks women's volleyball earned its first win of the season in dramatic fashion after turning an 0-2 deficit into a thrilling 3-2 victory over Immaculata University in Thursday evening's non-conference contest at Beaver Community Center.

The Nittany Lions (1-4) started out sloppy, falling 25-17 and 25-16 in the first two sets to put their backs against the wall. The third game was better for Berks after staying alive with a 25-19 win. In the fourth set, Berks started banging on all cylinders and picked up a convincing 25-15 win to square the match at 2-all and grab momentum going into the decisive fifth set. In the final set, the Nittany Lions jumped out to a 7-3 lead, but the Mighty Macs clawed back to cut the score to 9-6. From that point on the lead only grew for Berks and the match finally came to an end with a 15-9 margin in Berks' favor.

In the first three sets of the night, Berks combined on 32 kills while committing 28 errors for a .031 attack percentage. In the final two game, they turned it around with 22 kills against just seven errors for a .227 hitting percentage.

Alexis Horst paced the offense with a career-high 19 kills to surpass her previous best of 15, which she recorded against Scranton and Immaculata last season. Horst also notched 10 digs to collect her third straight double-double in kills and digs. Madison Wojciechowski continued her stellar play on defense with a team-high 21 digs, marking her fourth consecutive match with 20 or more.  Megan Lackman followed was second on the team in both kills and digs after recording a season-high 13 kills and career-best 20 digs. Amia Boone also enjoyed a career-day after smashing eight kills and notching two block assists. Maddy Kessler topped her previous high in kills after recording seven, while Abbie Carr finished with a contest-best and season-high five solo blocks. Morgan Schwartz set up the offense all night with her season-high 44 assists, which is 17 more than her previous best this year.

Olivia Zdradzinski led the Mighty Macs with 11 kills, 13 assists, and 10 digs, while Arden Vizzard had 10 kills and 21 digs. Sara Desmond led the defense with 25 contest-best 25 digs.

The Nittany Lions will travel toward Philadelphia for a tri-match with Wilkes University and host Haverford College on Saturday, September 9.


 
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