SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University volleyball team served nine aces and got five or more kills from five different players on Friday night as it swept Seton Hill in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) matchup from Heiges Field House.
 
Set scores were 25-23, 25-11, 25-22. It was SU's first sweep of Seton Hill since 2012 and the victory snapped a five-match losing streak against the Griffins. Earlier this season, Shippensburg hosted Seton Hill in a non-conference match that the Griffins won in five sets.
 
Shippensburg (23-5, 10-4 PSAC) swung .159 and out-dug the Griffins by 15 on Friday. Senior Maura Nolan had 28 assists, 13 digs and snuck a kill.
 
Freshman Samantha Webber led the Raiders with 10 kills, swinging .421 on 19 attempts, and also paced the team with three aces. She added four digs and had a hand in two blocks.
 
Freshman Gabriella Johnson had six kills, 10 digs and hit .150. Sophomore Morgan DeFloria also had six kills, while senior Annie Goerl had five kills, a team-high 16 digs and three block assists. Freshman Kendall Johnson had five kills and four blocks.
 
Shippensburg built a 24-19 lead in the first set before the Griffins scored four straight points that necessitated a pair of Raider timeouts. Webber slammed a kill from Nolan out of the timeout to give SU the opening set.
 
The second set was tied 8-8 before a remarkable service run by senior Maria Peluso changed the course of the match. After a Griffin service error made it 9-8, the Raiders scored 12 consecutive points on Peluso's serve to take control. The points came in a variety of ways – two aces, two Raider blocks, and three kills among them.
 
Seton Hill (16-11, 8-6) went out of sorts during the second-half Raider run, committing multiple setting errors and a ball-handling error in that stretch. The Griffins finished with just 21 kills on the night compared to 20 attack errors, and managed just eight kills over the final two sets.
 
Shippensburg will host California (Pa.) on Saturday at 1 p.m. in a battle of the No. 5 and No. 6 teams in the Atlantic Region rankings.
 
Before the match, SU will honor its six seniors: Goerl, Cristen Harris, Nolan, Peluso, Rebecca Pryor and Brittany Whitacre.