COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The Ursinus Women's Volleyball team won the first set before dropping the next three against Haverford on Wednesday night in Centennial Conference action at Helfferich Hall.
First-year
Madison Small led the Bears with nine kills while adding seven digs and senior
Alonna McCummings added six kills, three digs, and two blocks. Sophomore
Lauren McGinn tied for the team lead with 12 digs and posted nine assists and five kills. Junior
Molly Stevenson also recorded 12 digs along with four kills and sophomore
Chloe Kamp led the Bears with 12 assists while adding eight digs.
The first set saw back-and-forth action to start and Haverford grabbed a 4-2 lead early. However, the Bears won three straight points to go up 5-4 and once again after trailing 8-7 to go up 10-8. The Fords tied the set at 10 before the Bears won five of the next six points to go up 15-11. Haverford countered with the same run to tie the set at 16 and took the lead back at 19-18. Ursinus won five of the next six points to go up 23-20 and used a pair of Fords errors to steal the first set at 25-22.
Haverford dominated the second set 25-14 to level the match at one behind winning 10 straight points after leading 10-6. Ursinus started strong in the third set and built a 9-3 advantage early on. The Fords won five straight points to get within one at 9-8 and six of the next nine points to take their first lead of the third set at 14-12. Ursinus won three of the next four points to tie the set at 15 before the Fords closed out the set by winning 10 of the next 11 points. Neither team was able to pull away in the fourth set as the lead did not go above two points until Haverford went up 19-15 after winning six of seven points after trailing 14-13. The overall was capped off by Haverford winning 12 of the next 14 points to close out the set and match.
The Bears return to action on Saturday, October 17
th as they will travel to face Washington College at 1:00 p.m.
