Bethune-Cookman falls to Hampton in Non-Conference ActionLAKE CHARLES, La. - In a match-up of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opponents, Bethune-Cookman (0-10) fell 3-2 (27-25, 26-28, 25-13, 22-25, 15-11) to Hampton (5-5) Friday in the opening match of the Big Daddy's Invitational hosted by McNeese State. Later in the day, the host Cowgirls downed B-CU straight sets (25-22,25-16,25-15) to extend the Lady 'Cats losing streak to ten.
Freshman Delicia Pierre had a season-high 21 kills for B-CU against Hampton and also led the team with 11 kills in the McNeese State loss. Krysta Gardner posted an 18-kill, 15-dig double-double against Howard and 10 kills against McNeese State.
Gardner registered kills to close the second set and fourth set, but Hampton scored six of the final seven points in the fifth to secure the victory.
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Volleyball Swept By Charleston Southern In Opener of Greyhound Classic, 3-0
BALTIMORE, Md. (Sept. 7, 20112)-Freshman Arianna Hayden tallied a season-best and match-high 16 kills, but it wasn't enough as Morgan State fell to Charleston Southern 3-0 (24-26, 16-25, 20-25) on Friday afternoon in the opener of the inaugural Marriott Greyhound Classic at Reitz Arena on the campus of Loyola.
Morgan State (0-7) trailed 9-2, before using a 15-2 run to take a six-point (17-11) advantage after an assisted block by Janelle Wilson and Samantha Prescott. After the Buccaneers would come back and pull within a point three times, the Lady Bears held a 21-19 lead, following a kill by Shayna Hunt-Colon. But the Buccaneers would close out the set with a 7-3 run for the 26-24 victory.
Morgan State stayed close with the Buccaneers in the second set and trailed 10-11, but the Buccaneers scored seven straight points to take an 18-10 lead. A kill by Hayden ended the run and Ngebui (Natalie) Chafeh and Nikita Wickham combined on a block to make it an 18-12 contest, but the Lady Bears never really recovered and lost 25-16.
The Lady Bears fell behind 21-9, before putting together a 6-0 run to get within 15-21. A mini 3-0 spurt capped off with an assisted block by Jourdan Lemons and Hunt-Colon brought Morgan State within four points at 23-19. But a Morgan State service error ended its rally and Charleston Southern would eventually win the set 25-20 to win the match 3-0.
Charleston Southern (4-5) finished the match with 38 kills and a hitting percentage of .236. The Buccaneers were led by Kayla Klinger, who finished with 11 kills and had a team-high three service aces. Kristen Struksnes had a match-high 28 assists and Ashley Higgenbothem tallied a match-high nine digs.
Morgan State's Tamara Leslie had a team-high seven digs and Hayden added six. Chafeh notched 16 assists. The Lady Bears finished with a hitting percentage of .118 for the match.
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UMES Defeats Big 12 Opponent West Virginia To Go To 8-1
MORGANTOWN, W.V. - UMES made a statement against a major-conference opponent on Friday, taking down Big 12 member West Virginia in four sets (27-25, 25-16, 19-25, 25-19) on the road to open the WVU Golden Horseshoe Challenge at the WVU Coliseum. The Hawks improve to 8-1 on the year while the Mountaineers fall to 3-6.
With the victory, the Hawks have defeated their last nine road tournament hosts dating back to 2010, including three this season with St. Francis (NY), Savannah State and West Virginia.
Saitaua Iosia led the Hawks with 17 kills, adding four second set service aces and six digs. Maline Vaitai had 10 kills with six digs and a team-high four blocks, while Victoria Williams also contributed 10 kills, hitting .333. Jessica Vicic had a double-double with 39 assists and 13 digs, both team-highs.
West Virginia was led by Evyn McCoy, who earned 12 kills with three blocks, hitting .381. Wells got eight kills, while Brittany Sample earned a double-double with 33 assists and 12 digs.
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North Carolina A&T Falls to American, 3-0
GREENSBORO-The North Carolina A&T (0-9) took on a tough American (3-3) squad on Friday, and were swept 12-25, 7-25, 18-25. The Aggies were led by freshman outside hitter Brooke Stamnes who matched a season-best with 12 kills and set a season high with a .320 hitting percentage. She also led the team with five digs.
The Aggies and Eagles battled point for point throughout most of the first set, starting off the match with some exciting competition. A&T collected four straight points early. A kill by Stamnes gave A&T an 8-7 lead, and from there the two teams went back-and-forth. A kill by Stamnes tied the set up at 12-12, but then she committed an attack error to give the lead right back to the Eagles. From there, the Eagles collected 12 consecutive points to win the set, 25-12.
The Eagles took advantage of their early lead and won set two by a 25-7 final.
The Aggies played their best set at the end. Junior Jeana Daniels began the third set to with a kill. The Eagles collected three straight points to end the early A&T lead. A kill by Stamnes ended the Eagles run, and later a kill by Andrea Evans brought the Aggies within one point at 5-4. Stamnes gave the Aggies their fifth point of the set with a kill following a long rally. The Aggies kept working to cut the deficit, as a kill by Stamnes and Daniels brought A&T within one at 8-7. The crowd got into the momentum of the game, and Daniels tied up the set with another kill. An attack error by the Eagles tied the contest up at 10-10.
The Eagles pulled ahead to a 17-12 lead, but A&T didn't give up. Stamnes collected two consecutive points to bring the Aggies within two at 18-16. A kill by Stamnes brought the Aggies within four at 22-18, as A&T worked to win their first set on the night. But a pair of attack errors gave the Eagles the set and match. The Eagles only made three attack errors on the night, and totaled a .588 hitting percentage in the tilt.
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Del State Slips By Gardner-Webb; Falls To Charlotte
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. - It was a tale of two tapes Friday afternoon as Delaware State squeaked out a 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-22, 17-15) victory over Gardner-Webb, but fell, 0-3, to Charlotte on the first day of the GWU Runnin' Bulldog Classic, held at Paul Porter Arena.
Three Hornets posted double doubles in the win over the Bulldogs and were led by sophomore Edarkis Branch's 13 digs and 12 kills. Branch added in three assists, two blocks and one ace. Freshman Jasmine Jackson collected 13 digs and 11 kills while senior Bel Fakaosi posted 37 assists and 15 digs.
DSU held an 18-13 lead in the first set of the match, but Gardner-Webb went on a 9-0 run, including five kills from Tyler Cockrell to eventually take the 25-20 victory.
In set two, the Hornets were down,17-22 before going on a 8-1 run for the set two win. In the final points, DSU recorded four straight kills and two service aces from Fakaosi. Branch finished off the set with two consecutive kills with Fakaosi assists.
Set three was all the Bulldogs as they took an 18-10 lead and turned it in for a 25-18 set win and 2-1 match lead.
The Hornets took control in the fourth and eventually won, 25-22, to force a fifth set.
The fifth set was a back and forth affair, as neither team took more than a two-point lead. The set featured eight lead changes. The Hornets tied the set at 15-15 with a kill from senior Laisha Davis before the Bulldogs committed attack and ball handling errors to give DSU the 17-15 win.
GWU juniors Tyler Cockrell and Amanda Murphy recorded career-highs of 21 and 11 kills, respectively.
In the Hornets' second match of the day, Charlotte never trailed in the opening set en route to the 3-0 win (25-13, 25-21, 25-16).
Jackson led the way for DSU with seven kills and five digs. Junior Jessica Croucher collected nine digs and just two kills (.400 attack percentage) in the match. Fakaosi added in 21 assists.
Junior Amanda Videmsek led the 49ers with 15 kills and a .591 attack percentage.
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NSU Comeback Comes Up Short to Stetson, 3-2
NORFOLK, Va. - Facing a 2-0 hole in the first home match of the season, the Norfolk State swung momentum back in its favor but ultimately fell short in the quest for a victory in a 3-2 loss to Stetson Friday evening at Joseph Echols Hall.
The third and final match of the day in the Spartan Classic saw Stetson take the first two sets, 25-19, 25-17. The Spartans returned the favor in the next two sets, 25-23, 25-22, but the Hatters prevented the full NSU comeback with a 15-9 win in the fifth set.
Kaley Melville put the Hatters (3-8) on her back, totaling 19 kills with eight digs and six blocks, while no other player had more than seven kills. Senior Charlotte Armstead tallied 12 kills to lead NSU (2-6), while freshman Jessica Johnson and senior Beatriz Ferreira each added 10.
Despite hitting better than Stetson in the first set, NSU could not pull away early. Johnson and junior Coralie Jarema had back-to-back kills for a 10-9 lead, but the Hatters used an 11-2 run to pull out to an eight-point lead, 20-12. NSU was unable to overcome that deficit, and the results showed in the second set when the Hatters took a 13-2 lead to start the stanza.
A 5-0 run, highlighted by several Stetson errors, got NSU no closer than seven. The Hatters took a 2-0 lead in the match, but NSU rebounded with a 6-4 lead in the third set thanks to a couple of blocks from Ferreira. Down 11-8, Stetson later went on a 5-1 run to take the lead back.
Jarema added a couple of key kills and then put her early serving miscues behind her with a pair of service aces for a 23-21 lead in that third stanza. Stetson was forced to call timeout at that point, but Armstead laid down kills for NSU's last two points of the set.
The teams went back and forth in the fourth set, but Johnson and junior Goda Jankauskaite each threw down a kill to help the Spartans grab an 8-7 lead. A little later, a 7-2 run by NSU, including two more service aces from Johnson, put NSU up 15-12. Sophomore Adriana Ramos and Jarema each added key service aces to prevent Stetson from tying it up, and Armstead again put down a timely kill as the Spartans forced the final set.
NSU faced an early deficit, but a perfectly-placed kill from redshirt sophomore Noelle Eagles put the Spartans up, 7-6. It was all Stetson from there, though, as the Hatters finished the match on a 9-2 run.
NSU gave away 21 points on service errors despite having 10 service aces. Eagles and Ramos had 16 and 14 digs, respectively, while freshman Darcy Moore posted 38 assists with nine digs. Jarema had 12 digs, seven kills and three blocks.
Monique Russell had 21 digs for Stetson, while Ellen Hawks posted eight blocks. Kelli Carneal split time at setter and finished with 24 assists and 10 digs. Stetson hit .203 for the match compared to .147 for NSU and also led in blocks, 11.5-7.
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North Florida Blanks FAMU, 3-0
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Sept. 7) - Florida A&M dropped their first match of the Radisson University of North Florida Invitational as the Ospreys defeated the Lady Rattlers, 3-0 (18-25, 22-25, 22-25), Friday evening at the UNF arena.
Pamela Barrera led the Lady Rattlers in kills as she finished with team high eight kills, followed by Katherine Huanec with seven, while both Maria Ceccarelli and Yeisha Arcia finished with six kills each. Daina Gonazales led FAMU in assists with 22, while Karol Marquez led the team in digs with a team high 21.
The Ospreys had trio of players to finish in double-digit kills as Carolyn Jenkins finished with a set high 16 kills, while both Paige Pridgeon and Dagnija Medina finished with 10 kills apiece. Britt Claessens led the Ospreys in assists with match high 42, while Nicole Baran led UNF in digs with 10.
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