The Presbyterian College volleyball team fell to the UNF Ospreys in a close 3-0 match (23-25, 18-25, 23-25) this afternoon at the Radisson North Florida Invitational being held Sept. 7-8 in Jacksonville, Fla.

The Blue Hose dropped to 2-8, while the Ospreys improved to 3-4.

After an early back and forth battle the Blue Hose found themselves up 8-6 off a kill by Rachel Hall.   UNF used three kills in a row, as well as a service ace, to rally to the 10-8 lead.  Hall blocked the next UNF attack to cut the margin to one, 10-9.  The Ospreys scored the next15 of 20 points to build a 21-13 lead, however.  PC fought back, capitalizing on two service aces by Mary Trimpe and kills by Andrea Barman and Presley Mabrey, to cut the UNF lead to 21-19.

After a PC service error to make it 22-19, PC made it a one-point with a Mabrey kill and a PC miscue and trailed 22-21.  UNF built a three-point lead again off a PC attack error and an ace before PC came back again to trail 24-23.  That would be it as UNF's Carolyn Jenkins capped off the first game with a kill as the Ospreys took the 25-23 win.

With the second game tied 6-6, UNF went ahead for good when Paige Pridgeon and Dagnija Median blocked a Hall attack.  The Ospreys built a 10-8 lead before a kill be Hall and a couple of UNF errors made it a one-point game, 11-10.  UNF went on an 8-2 run to build its lead to 19-12.

PC cut the margin to four on two kills and one UNF error and trailed 19-15.  The Blue Hose only scored three more points as UNF used four kills down the stretch to take the 25-18 win in game two.

Tied 9-9 in game three, the Blue Hose used four kills, two by Berryman, to take a 15-13 lead.  UNF came back to tie the game at 15-15 and again at 17-17, before Hall recorded back to back kills to help PC retake the lead 20-17.  It was short-lived as the Ospreys stormed back with four straight to take lead 21-20.   PC tied the game at 21-12 and again at 22-22, but UNF scored the next three of four points to take the 25-23 win.

Leading PC was Hall with nine kills.  She was followed by Mabrey and Berryman with six apiece.  The Blue Hose recorded 31 kills and 25 attack errors for a .039 hitting percentage.  UNF came away with 38 kills and 17 errors for a .151 hitting percentage.  PC posted 74 digs, compared to 83 for UNF.

PC faces Florida A&M at 5 p.m. in the final match of the tournament this afternoon.