Cheyney, Pa. - The Queens College volleyball team improved to 6-1 on Saturday with wins over Cheney and Shaw in a tri-match from Cheyney, Pennsylvania.  The score in both matches was 3-0.

The scores versus Cheney were 25-14, 25-7 and 25-18.  The opening set was back and forth early on, as both sides shared points until the game was even at 10-10.  From there, six straight points from the Knights gave them a cushion for the set.  In that run, points came from a slew of Wolves errors and kills from Bianca Steele and Arielle DiCocco.  Up 16-10, the Knights closed out the set with a 9-4 run, and the final point came from a Tori Bowser kill.

The second set began with the Knights grabbing 20 of the first 25 points in contention to lead 20-5.  From there, a 5-2 run finished the set for QC.  In the second set, Queens recorded 10 kills, 21 total attacks and posted an attack percentage of .381.

Set three saw the Knights close out the match with a 25-18 win.  The set started similarly to the opening frame, as the two teams were tied at 9-all.  A 10-1 run for Queens gave them a 19-10 advantage.  The run  was keyed by a pair of DiCocco kills and three Else Buchmiller service aces.  At 19-10, Cheney used an 8-1 run to pull within 20-18, for Queens.  From there, five Knights points closed out the match as kills by DiCocco, Angela Kranz and Francesca Indoni accounted for the scoring.

The second match of the day for Queens saw them triumph over Shaw, 3-0.  The scores in those sets were 25-13, 25-7 and 25-10.

The Knights got off to a slow start against the Bears as the two teams exchanged points until the game was tied at 8-8.  From there, a 14-4 Queens runs put them ahead, 22-12.  In that scoring outburst, key points came from kills from DiCocco, Indoni and Steele and a service ace from Indoni, as well.  Shaw scored the next point to pull within 22-13, but the Knights put the set away on an Indoni kill, a Shaw error and an ace from Buchmiller.

The second set saw the Knights dominate from the onset, as they pushed a 17-6 lead.  They went on to take the set, 25-7.  In the second frame, Queens had nine kills and an attacked percentage of .350.

The final set of the match also went to QC, 25-10.  Queens leapt to a 13-5 lead and then relied on the strong serving of Else Buchmiller to close out the match.  With the score at 13-5, the Knights scored nine straight points with Buchmiller serving, including two kills from Bowser, two from DiCocco, one from Kilic and a pair of aces from Buchmiller.  Later in the set, a Indoni kill gave the victory to the Knights.

The Queens College volleyball team returns to action on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:00 PM, when they open East Coast Conference play against Mercy College.