Oct. 15, 2010

Box Score

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University volleyball team played host to Bentley University on Friday, October 15 in a Northeast-10 Conference clash. The Panthers took the first set easily, but the visiting Falcons claimed three of the next four to pick up a, 3-2 win. With the loss Adelphi falls to 12-7 overall and 6-2 in NE-10 play, while Bentley improves to 12-11 overall and 5-3 in the conference.

Adelphi posted 13 kills and an attack percentage of .290 in game one on the way to a strong 25-15 set one victory. It looked like that trend would continue into game two as the Panthers marched out to a 11-5 lead. However, Bentley rallied back, taking 13 of the next 16 points to take a 18-14 lead en route to a 25-17 victory.

With the game split at one game apiece things got tight, as neither team led by more then two points the entire third game. With the score knotted at 22, Chelsea Overholt produced a kill that would carry Adelphi to a 25-23 win and a 2-1 lead. The Falcons raced out to a 15-9 lead in game four, and this time Adelphi rallied, inching closer until tying the set at 23 all on another Overholt kill. However, the final two points would go to Bentley as the Falcons knotted the game at two all with a 25-23 win of their own.

The final set continued the back and forth affair as Bentley again moved out to a lead, 8-4. The Panthers chipped away again and knotted the score at 10 on a Falcon attack error. Bentley pulled away again, leading 14-11, but back to back kills from Emily Dorko pulled Adelphi to within one. However, the Panthers would get no closer as a Bentley kill sealed the win for the Falcons.

Four Panthers finished with double digit kills as Dorko, Overholt and Patawe Simms all had 10 and Hilary Pavels notched 16. Paves also had 12 digs, while teammate Heather Mau had a game-high 29 digs and Katie Bryson had 42 assists.

Adelphi returns to action on Saturday, October 16 when they play host to Stonehill College at 1:00 pm.