Volleyball drops weekend games

As homecoming festivities continued around campus last weekend, the Edinboro Fighting Scots volleyball team traveled away both Friday and Saturday.

On Friday, the team traveled to California University of Pennsylvania, a match in which the Scots would fall 3-0. In the first set Cal would get the win 25-16. The Fighting Scots would come back in the second set, but fall with a score 25-21. Cal would take the sweep in the third set with a 25-20 score. The Vulcans record moved to 11-6 overall.

Underclassmen Cierah Jackson (12 kills), Alicia Eldredge (29 assists and 8 digs) and Sally Sterkel (4 kills and 1 ace) all put points on the board this match. Senior Megan Screptock (6 kills, one ace, 3 assists and 12 digs) also put marks on the board in the match. The Fighting Scots moved on to their match on Saturday with their record sitting at 8-7 overall and 1-4 in the PSAC.

Edinboro continued their travels to Seton Hill to face the Griffins at 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Going into the match, the Griffins sat at 9-6 overall and 3-2 in the PSAC.

Seton Hill would win the first set of the match 25-19. Edinboro would come back but fall short in the second set 25-21 and again in the third where the score ended 27-25.

Eldredge recorded a total of 24 assists, 6 kills and 8 digs in this match, while Jackson would have 10 kills and 4 digs. Hannah Cantrill had 7 kills and 2 blocks in this loss.

After this match, Edinboro would move on to 8-8 overall and 1-5 in conference play. On Tuesday, the team will again travel to Slippery Rock, but the team will return home for matches this weekend. On Friday they will face Clarion University at 6 p.m. and on Saturday they will face Indiana University of Pennsylvania at 1 p.m.

Madi Gross can be reached at sports.spectator@gmail.com.

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