The Shippensburg University volleyball team achieved its second reverse sweep in divisional play this season on Saturday, coming from behind to take down West Chester by set scores of 21-25, 19-25, 25-21, 25-19 and 15-9 in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division match at Hollinger Field House.
Shippensburg (18-9, 8-4) overcame an opening two sets in which it hit just .095 from the floor (21 kills, 14 errors) by hitting .375 in the final three sets (40 kills, 11 errors). SU finished with 61 kills and hit .202 from the floor while West Chester (10-17, 2-10) had 56 kills and hit .217. Both teams had 12 blocks.
Sophomore
Elise Bragg delivered her third straight double-double, clubbing a team-high 16 kills, racking up 14 digs and serving four of the eight Raider aces on the day. Bragg had 53 total attempts – 21 more than any other Raider on the day – and hit .189.
Senior
Natalya Montague had 13 kills, swung .219, and had four blocks (two solo). Fellow senior
Kylie Snyder was about as efficient as one can be, ripping eight kills without an error on 13 total swings (.615 percentage) to go along with six block assists and one block solo.
Other noteworthy offensive performances included freshman
Alia Schmidt providing six kills and hitting .278, along with sophomore
Augusta DeVos tallying five kills, four block assists and hitting .231.
Junior
Jaiden Anderson provided 45 assists, three kills, seven digs and a block assist. Senior
Shay Kolivoski delivered a team-high 21 digs along with two aces and two assists. Juniors
Sophia Barrera and
Shea Stevens combined for 23 digs.
Shippensburg took an early 9-4 lead in the third set, but WCU later went on a 11-2 run to lead by four points, 15-11. Trailing 16-13, a five-point service run by Kolivoski restored the lead for the Raiders. With the score 20-20, Shippensburg closed on a 5-1 run to take the third set.
SU did not trail for the remainder of the match. An early 5-0 run in the fourth set put Shippensburg up 8-3, and the Golden Rams would only get as close as two points (at 13-11) before the Raiders expanded their lead through the frame's conclusion. Snyder slammed a team-high six kills in the set on nine total attempts.
In the fifth set, SU's lead was two points or less until it went ahead 10-6 on back-to-back kills by Schmidt. The next three Raider points were all Montague kills, while a block by DeVos and Snyder set up match point. DeVos ended the match two points later with a kill.
Shippensburg heads down to Shepherd on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. match at the Butcher Athletic Center.
