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Women's Volleyball Celebration
Carolee Pierce
0
SUNY Poly SPI 1-10,0-2 Empire 8
3
Winner Hartwick Hart 12-0,2-0 Empire 8
SUNY Poly SPI
1-10,0-2 Empire 8
0
Final
3
Hartwick Hart
12-0,2-0 Empire 8
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
SUNY Poly SPI 17 7 11 (0)
Hartwick Hart 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Hawks Overcome Slow Start to Fly Past Poly 3-0

ONEONTA, N.Y. – The Hawks continued to make a statement in conference play, making easy work of the visiting SUNY Poly Wildcats on Friday with a 3-0 win.
 
THE BASICS
 
  • Final Score:  Hartwick 3, SUNY Poly (25-17, 25-7, 25-11)
  • Location:  Oneonta, N.Y.
  • Record:  Hartwick (12-0 Overall, 2-0 Empire 8), SUNY Poly (1-10 Overall, 0-2 Empire 8)
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
 
  • The underdog Wildcats, came into Lambros Arena on Friday night and briefly put the Hawks on their heels taking advantage of Hartwick attack errors to take a 5-2 lead.
  • Hartwick clawed their way back in to tie the contest 9-9 with a kill from Aaliyah Williams (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).
  • The Hawks and Wildcats went back and forth for the next few points until Mackenzie Cahan (Ballston Spa, N.Y.) completely swung the momentum back into Hartwick's favor with back-to-back aces.
  • The home squad did not look back from there, going on to win the first set 25-17.
  • Hartwick found their footing in the second set as Head Coach Janet Donovan began to rotate some fresh faces onto the floor.
  • Shaelyn Thornton (Scarborough, Me.) served the Hawks to six-straight points including two aces.
  • Up 14-6, the ball found its way into the hands of Cahan who served her team to 10 unanswered points.
  • Lucy Walker (Ithaca, N.Y.) put the exclamation point on the 25-7 second set win with a monster kill from the middle for the final tally.
  • After posting 26 assists across the first two sets, setter Braelyn Hornick (Candor, N.Y.) handed the reigns over to Ellie Kalbach (Spring City, Pa.) in the third set.
  • Kalbach orchestrated the offense picking up nine assists on the team's 10 kills in the set.
  • All-in-all, nine Hawks recorded kills in the match, led by Shelby Swartz (Candor, N.Y.) with nine.
  • Thornton chipped in seven, while Walker and Williams added six and five kills respectively to the attack.
  • The Hawks served tough from the start, collecting 14 total aces in the match.  Cahan led the way with four, while Thornton and Arianna Thompson (Hogansburg, N.Y.) collected three each.
 
UP NEXT FOR THE HAWKS
 
The Hawks will have a quick turnaround with their first Empire 8 road contest of the season tomorrow afternoon at 1 PM against the Utica University Pioneers.
 
HARTWICK COLLEGE
 
One of the oldest colleges in the country, Hartwick has continually evolved for 225 years. The College's exciting new chapter is called FlightPath, a future-focused approach to education. Offering a distinctive blend of curricular, co-curricular and real-world work experiences, FlightPath builds on Hartwick's long history of integrating broad-based studies with experiential learning.
 
Hartwick College is a nationally ranked independent college of the arts and sciences located in picturesque Oneonta, NY, in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The College offers 35 courses of study leading to a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree, two master's degrees in the sciences, and a graduate certificate in nursing education. For more information, visit www.Hartwick.edu.
 
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