WINCHESTER, Va. – The Shenandoah University volleyball team opened up homecoming weekend Friday evening by rallying for a 3-2 ODAC victory over Randolph College.
Shenandoah (7-7, 3-2 ODAC) trailed, 2-1, after the WildCats (9-7, 1-4) were 27-25 winners in the third, but SU answered back in the fourth and fifth.
IN BRIEF
After giving up a 23-21 lead in the third, the Hornets did not let that happen again and held off Randolph, 25-22, in the fourth to set up the decisive fifth set.
Coach
Kent Clayberg's squad dominated the fifth, scoring four of the initial five points of the set and eventually jumping out to an 11-3 lead. Senior
Kate Poppo served four straight points during this run to push the advantage out to that eight-point bulge.
Randolph would get no close than six points the rest of the way and Shenandoah won it on a
Jillian Warter kill for a 15-7 final. Warter led all players with 20 kills.
Poppo added 17 kills to go along with 14 digs and two service aces.
SU aced the 'Cats 10 times with
Cheyenne Price claiming four of those.
Brooke Wagner had 58 assists to fuel the offense. SU hit .166 (62-33—175) for the match.
Defensively,
Emma Thompson had 15 digs, Wagner 14,
Regan Minney 11, and Price 10.
Randolph won the opening set, 25-20, and Shenandoah was a 25-14 victor in the second.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah is off until hosting Washington & Lee Friday night at 7 p.m. in another ODAC contest.
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