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Box Score 2 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The St. Francis Brooklyn women's volleyball team (4-6) earned a split in its final day of competition at the Henson Hawk Invitational on the campus of Maryland Eastern Shore. The Terriers fell in five sets to Hampton but then closed out the afternoon with a three-set defeat of South Carolina State.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
St. Francis Brooklyn – 2 | Hampton – 3 (25-23, 25-22, 23-25, 14-25, 14-16)
The Terriers stormed out to an early 2-0 lead in the contest before Hampton (5-4) rallied from behind to take the match in five sets. St. Francis Brooklyn picked up where it left off in the teams last meeting, a 3-1 victory for the Terriers that came during the opening weekend of the season.
The Terriers pulled away in the first set by a score of 25-23 and then went up, 2-0, in the match by taking the second, 25-22. Hampton scored wins in sets three, four, and five en route to its fifth-straight win of the season.
Junior
Sidney Colvey was a force for the Terriers right from the beginning of the match. Colvey finished with a match and career-high 19 kills while hitting an outstanding .395 over the course of five sets. The 19-kill performance tied for the third-most kills in a match by an NEC student-athlete this season. Colvey's .395 hitting percentage was the fourth-best by an NEC student-athlete this season.
Sophomore
Ally Speweik finished the match with 10 kills and hit .333. Sophomore
Angie Speweik registered a season-high 15 digs. Junior
Lauren Montgomery totaled nine kills, while senior setter
Nina Tiedt dished out 32 assists and tallied seven digs. Freshman
Kizzy Rodriguez recorded 14 digs for her seventh double-digit dig performance of the season.
St. Francis Brooklyn – 3 | South Carolina State – 0 (25-9, 25-14, 25-10)
The Terriers rolled over South Carolina State (0-8) in straight sets to pick up their first win of the Henson Hawk Invitational. St. Francis Brooklyn dominated South Carolina State by winning all three sets but double figures (25-9, 25-14, 25-10).
As a team, the Terriers hit .379 and were led by four student-athletes who hit over .300 in the win. Colvey picked up right where she left off in the first match of the day. The junior tallied 11 kills and hit .625 in the three-set defeat of South Carolina State. Sophomore
Vanja Miljacic recorded seven kills and notched a hitting percentage of .583. Sophomore
Danae Barkley totaled a career-best 10 kills and hit .421.
Ally Speweik added seven kills and hit .300.
Senior Gabriella Nóbrega dished out a match-high 26 assists and recorded 12 digs. Rodriguez had 12 digs for her second double-digit dig performance of the day.
NOTES FROM THE COACH:
"I think every team hits a lull or downturn at some point in non-conference play. I think we had that on Friday, but did a nice job of turning it around on Saturday and finished the weekend on a positive note. We had some moments of really nice play, and I'm confident we will find a way to use this weekend as fuel to improve for our final tournament of the non-conference portion of the season," noted head coach
Abra Rummel.
UP NEXT:
The Terriers are back in action on Friday, September 14 and Saturday, September 15 when they return to New York for the Big Apple Battle. St. Francis Brooklyn faces local foe Columbia on Friday, followed by meetings with Fordham and Dartmouth on Saturday.
