Alex Swan vs. Penn State Berks 9/2/16
0
Penn State Berks PSB 0-1
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 1-0
Penn State Berks PSB
0-1
0
Final
3
Elizabethtown ETOWN
1-0
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Penn State Berks PSB 24 19 17 (0)
Elizabethtown ETOWN 26 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Swan gets first victory, Blue Jays sweep Penn State Berks

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- New Blue Jays starred in getting their new coach his first win Friday night as Elizabethtown volleyball opened the season with a 3-0 (26-24, 25-19, 25-17) sweep of Penn State Berks at Thompson Gymnasium.

Freshman Elle Shatto recorded a double-double with a match-high of 13 kills and 15 digs and sophomore Gabby Anders, a first-year Blue Jay, provided 36 assists and three aces to help make a winner of Alex Swan in his collegiate head coaching debut.

Penn State Berks (0-1), another team battling lack of experience, brought 10 freshmen to Elizabethtown, but their youth didn't show much early in the first two sets. The Nittany Lions jumped out to an 8-3 lead in each, but the Blue Jays (1-0) found a way to get better as the sets went deeper.

Digging out of a whole nearly the entire first set, Elizabethtown rallied from 23-18 down to within 23-22 on three straight Nittany Lion errors and a Mackenzie Garner kill. The hosts staved off set point with a kill by Shatto and a Penn State Berks attacking error to tie it at 24. Two more unforced errors by the visitors capped a 4-0 Elizabethtown run to end the set.

Elizabethtown still trailed 10-6 in the second, before Shatto and Garner went for back-to-back kills and Sarah Schneider had a pair of aces to spark a 7-0 run that put the Blue Jays ahead for good. Garner came alive in the set, recording a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage and five of her 10 kills.

The Blue Jays would not suffer another slow start in the third, clicking off the first six points. Anders opened with an ace that set the tone. Emily Sexton and Shatto (two) followed with kills and E-town built a lead of as much as 10 before putting the Lions away on Schneider's ninth kill of the evening. Elizabethtown enjoyed its best set of the night, hitting .297 (15 kills-4 errors-37 attempts) to finish with a .216 (43-18-116) percentage overall.

Schneider came up one kill shy of a double-double, posting nine kills and a match-high 16 digs. Sexton added five kills, Anna Simpson three and Morgan Reiss two. Libero Chelsea Gallagher's 11 digs gave the Jays three players in double digits.

Anders, Shatto, Haven Smith and Katie Kennedy all made their Blue Jay debuts in the win.

Lindsay Amrhein totaled nine kills and two aces to lead the Nittany Lions, while Alexis Horst had eight kills and 14 digs.

Friday's match was the first leg of the Crosstown Crossover, which will be completed Saturday at Franklin & Marshall. The Blue Jays face the host Diplomats at 11 a.m., followed by Lancaster Bible at 1 p.m.
 
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