Juliana Mowen vs. Carnegie Mellon 9/18/15
Matthew O'Haren
3
Winner Stevenson STE 16-7
0
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 12-9
Winner
Stevenson STE
16-7
3
Final
0
Elizabethtown ETWN-W
12-9
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Stevenson STE 25 25 25 (3)
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 22 9 14 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Blue Jays swept by Stevenson

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Stevenson cranked up its offense late in the first set of Thursday evening's non-conference match against Elizabethtown. It was the appropriate foreshadowing of how the rest of the evening would go for the Mustangs. They attacked at better than a .400 clip in the second and third sets to sweep the Blue Jays, 3-0, by scores of 25-22, 25-9 and 25-14.

Early on it was the Blue Jays playing inspired. Two kills from freshman Mackenzie Garner and another from Juliana Mowen helped Elizabethtown grab a 5-3 lead. The lead would swap sides four more times in short order before a 5-0 run put the Blue and Gray (12-9) ahead 13-9.

E-town took its lead into the late stages of the set, but Annika Schwartz stepped up with two of her match-high 16 kills, the second of which gave Stevenson a 23-22 edge. Moriah Savage and Kelsey Stave then came up with a timely block and Savage closed the set with a kill.

Schwartz had five more kills and Kristen Brooks four as Stevenson (16-7) shifted into overdrive in the second. E-town could simply not recover from the Mustangs' late first-set comeback, allowing nine straight points and 16-of-18 to go to the visitors.

Stevenson, which hit .423 in the second (13 kills-2 errors-26 attempts), backed its effort up in the third to hit .429 (14-2-28). Another large run by the Mustangs, this one 17-3, would prove too large for the Jays to overcome.

Mowen was Elizabethtown's kills leader at night's end with nine on 29 attempts. The senior outside hitter did not commit an attacking error in the match, en route to a .329 hitting percentage. While Mowen was a bright spot, many more escaped the Jays. As a team they hit no better than .067 in any set and were held without a block in the second and third sets.

Shannon Deck's team-high 14 digs brought her within two of 1,000 for her career. Fellow senior Steph High, who entered the match with 981 digs, closed in on the milestone as well with six.

Garner and Janae Moran had six kills apiece for the Blue Jays.

Stevenson setter Sara Bollinger went for a double-double of 29 assists and 11 digs, while Savage supplemented Schwartz's strong night on offense with seven kills. Libero Deanna Bradbury added a match-high four aces to go with nine digs.

The Blue Jays will return to Mount Calvary Christian School Monday to face Neumann at 7 p.m.
 
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