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Volleyball Falls to Lehigh

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October 30, 2003

Contact: Amanda Brickell

 

?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />BETHLEHEM, PA. – The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø volleyball team dropped its eighth-straight Patriot League match 3-1 to Lehigh on Thursday evening.

 

The Mountain Hawks took the first two games 28-30 and 25-30.  The Raiders fought back to win the third set 30-28 before falling 21-30 in the fourth frame.

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51³Ô¹ÏÍø was led by Laurel Oliver (Watertown, N.Y.) with 15 kills and Allie Nichols (Sacramento, Calif.) with 14.  Freshman Marybeth Maziarz (Wilbraham, Mass.) tallied her first double-double of the season with ten kills and 11 digs.  Setter Alana Elsner (Wheaton, Ill.) matched Maziarz’s 11 and added 51 assists for yet another double-double.

 

Senior Claire Putzeys (Newtonville, Mass.) notched four block assists moving her into seventh on the career blocks assists list with 162.  Junior co-captain Natalie Rawson (Palmdale, Calif.) tied her career-high with 31 digs in the match.  Her season total of 358 is the fifth best mark in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø history.

 

Michelle Schwendenmann paced the Mountain Hawks with 13 kills.  Jeanette Singleton gathered ten kills and eighteen assists while Jill Kober posted a team-high 19 digs.  Katie Dukatz and Morgan Volkert added six blocks apiece to the effort.

 

The Raiders fall to 5-20 overall and 2-8 in the Patriot League.  The team will close its final road trip of the season against Lafayette in Easton, Pa. At 5 p.m. on Nov. 1