Janae Moran vs. Haverford 9/11/15
2
Allegheny ALL 4-3
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETWN-W 4-2
Allegheny ALL
4-3
2
Final
3
Elizabethtown ETWN-W
4-2
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Allegheny ALL 25 25 22 23 10 (2)
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 23 19 25 25 15 (3)
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETWN-W 5-2
0
Lycoming LYCO 3-3
Winner
Elizabethtown ETWN-W
5-2
3
Final
0
Lycoming LYCO
3-3
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 25 27 25 (3)
Lycoming LYCO 13 25 12 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Volleyball fights back against Allegheny, sweeps opening night at Lycoming Invitational

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Elizabethtown women's volleyball rallied from two sets down to stun Allegheny 3-2 Friday evening at the Lycoming Warrior Invitational. The Blue Jays used the momentum built from the opener to sweep Lycoming 3-0 in their late match.

Janae Moran accounted for a career-high 18 kills, while fellow freshmen Mackenzie Garner (16) and Kristina Smith (12) also notched career-highs.

Allegheny (4-3) hit better than .200 in each of the first two sets, but the Blue Jays got incrementally better as the match wore on.

Following a .127 success rate (12 kills-5 errors-55 attempts) in a tight 25-23 first-set loss, the Jays picked it up to .133 (12-6-45) in the second, .213 (18-8-47) in the third and a stellar .353 (15-3-34) in the fourth.

The first two sets could have gone either way, but the Gators ultimately came away with the two-point win in the first and claimed the second 25-19.

E-town (5-2) and Allegheny swapped the lead nine times in the third. Late in the set, Moran came through with four kills, including the set-clincher for a 25-22 win.

Though the Blue Jays had their best hitting set in the fourth, they couldn't find a way to break free from the Gators.

Allegheny led 23-22 and was on the verge of victory, but an attacking error pulled Elizabethtown even and senior Juliana Mowen's ace had the Jays looking at set point. Following a Gator timeout, Mowen delivered a second straight ace to take the set 25-23 and tie the match at two sets apiece.

In the fifth set, Elizabethtown held the lead for much of the way, but it was 8-8 when Allegheny committed a pair of errors around a Smith kill to give the Blue and Gray some breathing room.

Moran had four kills in the deciding set and the Blue Jays took it, 15-10, when Victoria Leidy and Mackenzie Garner got in the way of Taylor Samuel's attempt for a combo block.

Elizabethtown's 67 kills matched its season-high total from 2014, also set in a five-setter against Swarthmore. Prior to that, a Blue Jay team had not gone for that many kills dating back to Oct. 15, 2008, when E-town amassed 72 against Widener.

Moran's 18 kills came on 50 attempts. The State College High School grad was one of three E-town players with a double-double, as she also collected 12 digs. Smith finished with 12 kills and 23 digs, and Kristin Halliday had 17 assists and 10 digs.

Steph High, playing in her 100th career match, led the Jays with 36 assists and three service aces. Garner added three blocks to go with her 16 kills, Megan McNaul had nine digs and seven kills, and Shannon Deck totaled 21 digs.

Elizabethtown showed no ill effects from going five in its late match, storming past host Lycoming 25-13, 27-25, 25-12.

Randall Kreider's team showed poise throughout the match, making just eight attacking errors on 98 attempts.

High took control of the offense, handing out a match-high 31 assists. The senior captain added 11 digs on the opposite side of the net for a double-double.

Mowen's 11 kills were a team-high, while Moran chipped in seven and Smith six. Garner made her presence felt defensively, denying the Warriors at every turn with six blocks (two solo).

Deck registered her third straight match with double figure digs (15) and sixth in seven matches this season.

Kristine Jahn's nine kills and Lauren Fink's eight were tops for the former Commonwealth Conference foe Warriors (3-3).

Play continues at the Lycoming Invitational Saturday. The Blue Jays match up with Pitt-Bradford at 11:30 a.m. and conclude tournament play against Penn College at 1:30 p.m.
 
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