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Mountaineers Drop 3-1 Match at Dartmouth
September 11, 2015 10:42 PM | Volleyball
HANOVER, N.H. – Hitting just .119 for the match, the West Virginia volleyball team took a 3-1 loss to Dartmouth at the Dartmouth Invitational on Friday evening at Leede Arena. The Big Green took the match in set scores of 25-20, 25-17, 25-20, 31-29.
“I thought we competed harder after we got over a slow start,” said WVU coach Reed Sunahara. “Unfortunately, we came out short. Dartmouth played well and deserve credit for a hard-fought match.”
Morgan Montgomery led the team with a career-high 18 kills, registering her third double-double of the season with 11 digs. Caleah Wells had seven kills, as did Brittany Sample. Dzeni Hadzisehovic went for six kills, while Sample added 27 assists and seven digs as well. West Virginia hit .119 in the match.
Libero Gianna Gotterba had a team-best 18 digs and Hannah Shreve led the Mountaineers with seven blocks. WVU had a season-high 12.5 blocks, as Sample went for five total blocks, including a pair of big solo blocks, and Hadzisehovic added four. Wells and Swanegan each had a pair.
The Mountaineers hit .212 in the first set with 11 kills, led by Montgomery’s five. Hadzisehovic also had four, but WVU had 10 miscues to hurt their offensive chances. Dartmouth took a 5-3 lead, and stayed a point or two ahead of WVU for most of the set. Four late kills by the Big Green gave them the 25-20 win, leaving the Mountaineers looking to rebound in set two.
The offensive woes continued, as the Mountaineers hit .125 in set two, going for nine kills with six errors. Montgomery added another five kills on 11 total attacks, while Wells put a pair through the pins. The teams kept the match close, knotting the score at 10-10 and again at 13-13. A 4-0 run by Dartmouth gave the Big Green the 18-14 lead, and a 5-0 streak made it a 23-15 lead. WVU scored twice on Dartmouth’s set point, using kills from Montgomery to keep the set alive. However, a Mountaineer attacking error and a Dartmouth kill gave the Big Green the 25-17 win as they took a 2-0 lead in the match.
Despite hitting just .103 in the third set, West Virginia came away with the win behind four kills from Montgomery and a trio of blocks from Shreve. The Mountaineers took a 12-10 lead on a block, stretching it to 19-16 on an ace by Gotterba. Dartmouth came back to tie the set, 20-20, before kills by Swanegan and Montgomery helped WVU claim the 25-20 win.
The two teams combined for 60 points in the fourth set. Sample’s four kills and five assists led the way for WVU, though the Mountaineers couldn’t come up with the victory. The teams played to a 10-10 tie, then evened the score again at 17-17. Dartmouth took a 22-18 lead on a WVU attacking error, but three in a row by the Mountaineers tied the score, 24-24, on a Montgomery kill. The two teams traded points to a 29-29 tie before back-to-back kills gave Dartmouth the 31-29 victory.
The Mountaineers return to Leede Arena to face UConn at 5 p.m. Saturday evening.
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