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Box Score

PEPPER PIKE, Ohio ­– The Ursuline College volleyball team fell to conference foe Urbana University in straight sets on Friday (Nov. 2) night. Set scores were 25-19, 25-21 and 25-21.

The Arrows are now 6-28 overall and 2-6 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference while the Blue Knights picked up their 10th win and improved to 10-19 overall and 5-2 in the G-MAC.

Ursuline certainly had its chances as the Arrows held a 17-11 lead in the first set. The teams split the next two points to give UC an 18-12 lead but then Urbana rattled off the next 10 points to take a 22-18 lead en route to a first set victory.

In the second set, Ursuline fell behind early at 8-2 but fought all the way back to make it a 20-18 game before falling in the 2-0 hole. In the final set of the evening, the score was knotted at 20-20 before Urbana closed on a 5-1 run.

Both teams committed 13 attack errors, but Urbana slammed home 48 balls to finish with a .243 percentage while Ursuline hit at a .185 clip. Urbana’s Kelsey Volkmer led all players with 20 kills while Ursuline junior outside hitter Alex Leister was the only other player to reach double-digits in kills with 13.

The Blue Knights received kills from six players in total, but a handful of student-athletes contributed at least five kills. After Leister, Ursuline received nine kills from sophomore Brittany Kempf (.500 hitting percentage) and eight more from junior Maureen Kelly.

As a team, Urbana had 46 assists – 37 of which came from Mary Hendricks. Her counterpart – UC junior Ashley Reinhart – was credited with 33 helpers.

Defensively, five Arrows recorded at least 10 digs with sophomore Kelly Stenger digging out a team-high 21 balls. Kaitlin Kremer led all players with 22 digs as she was one of four Urbana student-athletes to reach double-digits in scoops.

The Arrows will conclude the regular season with a re-match against Edinboro University at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday (Nov. 6) night. The Fighting Scots won the first meeting between the two teams by a score of 3-2 back on Sep. 11.

Max Radigan of the Ursuline College Sports Network will provide free live audio of the regular season finale while live stats will also be provided free of charge.