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WEST POINT, N.Y. (10/16/10) – The Colgate women's volleyball team fell to Army by the score of 3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-20) on Saturday afternoon in Patriot League action.
Colgate (11-10, 4-3 PL) got 10 kills and 10 digs from senior captain
Logan Keala (Kaneohe, Hawaii), while junior
Blaire Safir (Oakland, Calif.) and rookie
Kaylee Fifer (Lantana, Texas) added 15 and 13 assists, respectively. Freshman
Caitlin Cremin (Naperville, Ill.) led the team in digs with 11 on the day.
Army (13-10, 6-1 PL) saw Ariana Mankus put together an impressive performance with 19 kills and 18 digs. She had 19 strikes on 40 attempts and just five errors. Francine Vasquez was second behind Mankus with 13 kills, while Karyn Powell led each team with 37 helpers. Brittany Jensen had 20 digs for a game-high.
The teams played evenly up until Army took an 8-7 lead. The Black Knights then opened it up with a short 4-0 run to push the lead to 12-7. Colgate never recovered from the run as the Raiders got to within two a pair of times, but couldn't overcome a combined 11 kills from Mankus and Vasquez in the set. The Raiders got five kills from Keala and three from junior
Maureen Colligan (Odessa, Fla.) in the set. Army took the 1-0 lead with a 25-21 win in the set.
The second set ended with the same result at 25-21 in favor of the Black Knights, but they had to fight in the middle of the match to put away the Raiders. Colgate had its largest lead at 7-2 thanks to kills from junior
Kaylee Dougherty (Landisville, Pa.) and Keala. The Raiders held the lead until they got stuck on 10 points for a few points and Army took advantage and went on top 11-10 on a Karyn Powell kill. Once the Black Knights got the lead, they were home free and Colgate couldn't close the gap to less than three.
Colgate was able to get an early lead in the third set with a 7-4 advantage on two kills from Dougherty and one by rookie
Linsday Young (Tampa, Fla.). Army fired back to tie it at 7-7 and Colgate answered with a kill by Keala to take the lead back at 8-7. The Black Knights then opened it up with an 11-3 run to go up 18-11. The Raiders slowly cut into the lead, but Army ended the match with a kill from Mankus at 25-20 and a 3-0 win.
Colgate will be back in action next weekend as the Raiders travel to Navy and American to start the second half of the Patriot League schedule.
