The Shippensburg University volleyball team snapped East Stroudsburg's seven-match winning streak on Saturday afternoon, posting an impressive road sweep of the Warriors by set scores of 25-18, 25-20 and 26-24 in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division action at Koehler Fieldhouse.
Shippensburg (11-6, 3-2) hit a solid .212 from the floor, committing just 15 errors on the day, while limiting East Stroudsburg (11-6, 4-1) to a .130 hitting percentage. SU also out-blocked ESU, 9-7.
The Raiders employed their "higher-risk, higher-reward" approach to the service line – serving 11 aces to go along with 10 errors. The 11 aces are the third-most in a match this season and the fifth time in 2026 that SU has finished a match with double-digit aces. The Warriors managed just four aces.
Senior
Hailey Cappleman had a terrific day, crunching a team-high 10 kills on just two errors while hitting .348. She led all players with six block assists.
Sophomore
Elise Bragg had a strong day, hitting .192 from the floor and providing nine kills and five digs. Senior
Natalya Montague and redshirt-sophomore
Riley Blank each provided five kills; Montague was a part of three blocks.
Junior
Clara Wildermuth was terrifically efficient, hitting eight kills and hitting .269 from the floor. Wildermuth delivered six kills before committing her first and only error of the day; she also had two block assists and four digs.
Senior
Shay Kolivoski recorded a match-high 20 digs, averaging nearly seven per set, and her passing resulted in six assists. Setters
Jaiden Anderson and
Molly Seifert combined for 30 assists.
Juniors
Shea Stevens and
Sophia Barrera each delivered three aces from the service line; Anderson added two.
East Stroudsburg got a match-high 15 kills from Jadyn Orava, who hit .171 on the day (eight errors, match-high 41 attempts). Kelly Crites, who had 12 kills and a match-high five aces last night in ESU's four-set victory over front-running Shepherd, was held to just seven kills and without an ace by the Raiders.
In the first set, with the score 14-11, a Blank kill prefaced a five-point service run by Stevens that included two of her aces that put the Raiders up by nine (20-11) en route to taking the first set.
The pivotal stretch of the match came in the second set with the score tied 20-20. A Cappleman kill set up a four-point service run by Anderson that gave SU a 2-0 lead. A block by Cappleman and senior
Kylie Snyder made it 22-20; Anderson served an ace, ESU hit an attack error and Cappleman slammed a kill to close the frame.
Shippensburg trailed by as many as four points in the third set and was down 19-17 when Blank delivered a kill and Kolivoski stepped to the service line. Kolivoski delivered a five-point service run, beginning with an ace to tie the score at 19-19. Back-to-back blocks preceded back-to-back kills by Cappleman, putting the Raiders up by four.
SU had three match points after taking a 24-21 lead, but the Warriors fended each one off. Entering extra points, Blank served a kill and ESU hit an error to give the Raiders the victory.
Shippensburg remains on the road next week for a pair of Eastern Division matches, beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at Lock Haven.
