The Chestnut Hill College Women's Volleyball team played host to Holy Family University Tuesday night hoping to hand the Tigers their first conference loss of the season. The match started off well as the Griffins won the first set but the Tigers clawed back to take the next three sets to win the match 3-1 (25-21, 21-25-23-25, 19-25).
Senior
Kerri Sullivan reached a milestone in the match, recording her 100
th career service ace, becoming the eighth player in program history to do so.
The Griffins fall to 7-13 overall and 4-9 in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference games. Holy Family remains undefeated in league play at 15-0 while improving to 20-3 overall.
Henielys Ramos and
Erika Dubosky recorded double doubles no the night to pace the Chestnut Hill offense. Ramos had 15 kills while recording 10 digs and Dubosky had 10 kills while recording 13 digs.
Leah Miller added nine kills while
Angela April and
Lauren Lipinski had eight apiece.
Mia Caporellie set the offense for the Griffins with 43 assists. She also led the team with three service aces.
Defensively, Dubosky and Ramos reached double figures in digs while
Vanessa Caballero and Caporellie had nine apiece. Miller led the team with four blocks while Caporellie added three.
Chestnut Hill jumped out to a 15-8 lead in the opening set and held off a Tiger comeback to win 25-21. Holy Family had rallied to tie the score at 21-21 before Lipinski broke the tie with a kill. With Ramos serving, the Griffins got two straight kills from Miller and then Miller and Caporellie blocked an attack attempt by the Tigers to secure the set and a 1-0 lead in the match.
The Tigers won the second set by the same score 25-21 after seeing their four-point lead cut to one 20-19. The Tigers closed the set of with a 5-2 run to even the match at one set apiece.
The Griffins jumped out to a 7-3 lead in the third set before the Tigers ran off six straight points to retake the lead 9-7. A Caporellie kill pulled the Griffins within one 11-10 and the Tiger lead was never greater than two until Holy Family ran off three straight points late to lead 23-19. A Lipinski ace and a Tiger attack error again pulled the Griffins within one 24-23 before HFU's Camille Johnson (team high 15 kills) ended the set with a kill, 25-23.
Ramos recorded six kills in the final set and led by two 16-14 when the Tigers went on a 5-0 run to lead 19-16 Ramos' last kill of the set cut the HFU lead to 20-19 but the Tigers took advantage of three CHC attack errors to pull away and win 25-19.
The Chestnut Hill Women's Volleyball Team is back in action on Thursday, November 4, 2021 when they travel to Wilmington University in Delaware. Tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m.
