AMHERST, N.Y. – Continuing their road stand the Queens College women's volleyball team traveled to Amherst for an East Coast Conference match against the Wildcats of Daemen University inside Lumsden Gymnasium Saturday afternoon.
Junior
Kendall Conrad (Carrolltown, PA) paced the Knights offense with a match-high 13 kills but the Knights would fall in a tough three-set match as Daemen earned a series split against the Knights.
With the loss, the Knights moved to 16-9 overall, 6-2 in ECC play on the year. It is the first ECC series against the Wildcats since the 2017 season when both teams defended their home court.
MATCH RECAP vs. Daemen University (0-3, | Set Scores: 19-25, 21-25, 26-28)
Both teams traded early leads with each side using runs of three points, and with the Knights trailing 12-10, a kill from senior
Alicia Cervera (Valencia, Spain) and back-to-back Daemen errors would allow the Knights to tie the set at 13-13.
But the Wildcats would take six of the next 10 points to take a 19-17 lead before closing the first set with a 25-19 victory and take a 1-0 match lead.
In the second set Queens would fall behind by three points before a Conrad kill combined with two Wildcats errors allowed the Knights to tie the set at 8-8, however, four straight points from the Wildcats would see them take a 13-8 lead and never let up as they took a 2-0 match lead with a 25-21 second set victory.
In the third set, Queens fell behind 7-4 before the Knights offense recorded four kills in a 6-3 run to tie the set at 10-10.
But the Wildcats would answer back with an 11-6 run to take a 21-16 lead before Conrad recorded two kills in a 6-1 run to tie the set at 22-22.
Daemen would take a 23-22 lead before a kill from rookie
Madi Hathaway (Edmond, OK) and a block from junior
Maya Angelova (Kyustendil, Bulgaria) put the Knights at set point to the score of 24-23.
Both teams would trade the next four points with Queens at set point, but back-to-back errors would hurt the Knights before the Wildcats recorded the win to the final score of 28-26 and completed the three set sweep and earned an ECC series split Saturday afternoon.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Conrad led the Knights' offense recording 13 kills to go with four digs and three blocks.
- Rookie Jonaida Donowa (Porter, TX) notched six kills, two digs and one block.
- Rookie Hathaway recorded her seventh double-double of the year with a team-high 12 assists, and 10 digs to go with four kills and one block.
- Senior Christina Franco (Lynbrook, N.Y.) notched 12 digs, three kills and two assists in the match.
NEXT MATCH
The Knights conclude their five-match road stand on Sunday, Nov. 3 with a trip to Buffalo as they match up against the Saints of D'Youville University in ECC play. The first serve is set for noon.
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