The Shippensburg University volleyball team secured a four-set win over Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division opponent Lock Haven on the road Saturday to earn its sixth straight conference victory. Set scores were 25-7, 25-12, 23-25 and 25-23.
Shippensburg (11-9, 6-1 PSAC East) ended the match hitting .236 from the floor and recording 49 kills. Lock Haven (4-11, 2-5) finished the match with 41 kills and an .084 hitting percentage. The Raiders delivered seven service aces to the Bald Eagles two. SU out-blocked Lock Haven 11-4.
Senior
Emily Gardner led the SU offense collecting 15 kills, hitting .310 from the floor, and committing only two attack errors on 42 swings. Gardner added 11 digs to record her 13th double-double of the season. Senior
Maddie Clabaugh was another key piece for the offense recording 10 kills with a .333 hitting percentage. Clabaugh added 14 digs to earn her first double-double of the season.
Junior
Kearstin Davis handed out 39 assists and tacked on two kills, two aces and six digs. The defense was led by junior
Erica Lampus who recorded a season-high 20 digs. Sophomore
Shay Kolivoski delivered a match-high three aces.
The first two sets were decisively in favor of the Raiders. An early 5-0 run that included a Kolivoski ace and kills from senior
Kat Negron and sophomore
Natalya Montague put the Raiders in the lead, 8-2. Kills from Montague and Negron increased the lead to 12-3. The Raiders completed an 8-1 scoring stretch to then lead 19-5. Freshman
Kyra Douglass checked in for the Raiders and delivered back-to-back kills, 21-6. A service error from Lock Haven put SU at set point, 24-7. A kill from Negron claimed set one for the Raiders, 25-7. The Raiders finished set one with a .429 hitting percentage, ripping 12 kills on zero attack errors.
With Kolivoski on the service line, the Raiders completed a 9-0 scoring stretch in the second set that featured an ace, three kills from Gardner, and kills from Clabaugh and junior
Isabelle Bombas. Clabaugh delivered a kill to spark a 3-0 run as SU led 16-5. A 5-0 run off an ace from freshman
Sophia Barrera and kills from Douglass and Bombas ended set two in favor of the Raiders, 25-12.
Set three started as a back-and-forth battle with both teams tying six times before the Raiders pulled ahead with a 4-1 scoring stretch, 11-8. Lock Haven completed a 3-0 run to tie the set, 11-11. A 4-1 scoring stretch that included a kill from sophomore
Hailey Cappleman and a kill from Davis put SU back in the lead, 19-16. A 3-0 run from the Bald Eagles tied the set at 19-19. With the set tied at 23-23, the Bald Eagles completed a two-point run to win set three, 25-23.
A pair of kills from Gardner and a kill from Bombas gave the Raiders an early lead in the fourth set, 3-1. SU increased the lead off a kill from Bombas and Gardner and two Lock Haven attack errors, 8-3. An 8-1 scoring stretch gave the Bald Eagles the lead, 13-11. Lock Haven increased their lead to four, 17-13. A kill from Clabaugh and a pair of combined blocks from Clabaugh and Montague put SU within one, 18-17. After three attack errors from the Bald Eagles, the Raiders regained the lead, 21-20. Bombas delivered a kill to put SU at match point, 24-23. Gardner slammed the final kill for the Raiders to close the match, 25-23.
Shippensburg returns home at 7 p.m. Tuesday for a non-conference match against Frostburg State.
