The Presbyterian College volleyball team dropped its second match of the season to the Bulldogs of UNC Asheville at the Justice Center in Asheville, S.C. The Blue Hose fell by the score of 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-16).
PC falls to 5-15 overall and 3-2 in the Big South, while the Bulldogs improve to 12-8, 3-2. PC travels to Campbell for its next match Friday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m.
Leading The Blue Hose was Rachel Hall with 13 kills and just two errors for a .500 hitting percentage. She was followed by Andrea Barman and Kelly Berryman with six apiece. Ashtin Frank paced the team in assists with 30 while Mary Trimpe added 15 digs. Barman and Frank both ended the match with three block assists.
PC recorded 36 kills but 17 errors for a .160 hitting percentage. Team blocks stood at 5.0, with the Blue Hose posting four service aces.
UNCA was led by Anna Moore with 13 kills and Christine Lakatos with 11. Moore was perfect offensively with no errors for a team-leading .684 hitting percentage.
The Bulldogs hit 47 kills and had 11 errors for a .286 hitting percentage. Katie Davis led the team with 43 assists with Rachel Wells leading the defensive effort with 21 digs. Moore led the Bulldogs with four block assists as well.
The Blue Hose led 12-10 in the first set before the Bulldogs rallied to tie the set a t12-12 and eventually take a 17-15 lead. Trailing 20-17, PC cut the margin to one, 21-20, off a Hall kill, and was able to get that close again at 23-22, but a Blue Hose service error and Lakatos kill sealed the 25-22 UNCA win.
Leading by just one, 16-15, in the second set, UNCA used three straight kills to open up a four-point, 19-15 lead. The Blue Hose cut the margin to three on several occasions, including 24-21, off another Hall kill, but it came to little too late as Meredith Fosters' kill on set point gave UNCA the 25-21 win.
UNC Asheville opened up a 12-5 lead in the third set until the Blue Hose used kills by Hall and Lena Gavin to make it a four-point, 16-12, set. A block by Berryman and Frank made it a four-point set again at 18-14, but that would be as close as PC would get as the Bulldogs went on a 7-2 run to close out the set, taking the 25-16 win.
