Mackenzie Garner vs. Juniata 9/30/17
Dan Gittis
0
Catholic CUA 16-18, 1-4 LC
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 18-10, 1-4 LC
Catholic CUA
16-18, 1-4 LC
0
Final
3
Elizabethtown ETOWN
18-10, 1-4 LC
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Catholic CUA 15 20 15 (0)
Elizabethtown ETOWN 25 25 25 (3)
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 19-10, 2-4 LC
0
Goucher GOU 5-18, 0-6 LC
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
19-10, 2-4 LC
3
Final
0
Goucher GOU
5-18, 0-6 LC
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Elizabethtown ETOWN 25 25 25 (3)
Goucher GOU 17 15 20 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Garner, Anders help WVB finish on a high note

TOWSON, Md. -- The Elizabethtown College women's volleyball team did everything it could to keep its playoff hopes alive, sweeping Catholic and Goucher by 3-0 scores, Saturday, but Moravian's victory over Catholic left the Blue Jays on the outside looking in.

ELIZABETHTOWN 3, CATHOLIC 0
25-15, 25-20, 25-15

Mackenzie Garner returned to E-town's lineup for the first time since Oct. 5, after missing the team's last 10 matches due to injury. The Landmark Conference leader in hitting percentage provided a major lift with 14 kills and four blocks as the Blue Jays stomped the Cardinals 25-15, 25-20 and 25-15.

E-town led throughout much of the first set, inching away from Catholic (16-18, 1-4 Landmark) with a 7-2 run highlighted by two kills and two blocks from freshman middle hitter Marisa Krinock.

Elle Shatto had a kill and a block in a run of six unanswered points later in the set that put E-town on the brink of victory, 23-14.

In the second, middles Garner and Krinock combined for nine of E-town's 16 kills, and Shatto added four. The Blue and Gray hit a match-best .367 (16 kills-5 errors-30 attemptss) on their way to a five-point decision.

Elizabethtown completed the sweep with Garner providing five kills and four different players serving up aces in the third set.

Garner was the only Blue Jay to reach double figures in kills with 14, but Sarah Schneider (9), Krinock (8) and Shatto (8) all came close.

Anders had a match-high 38 assists along with five digs, two kills, two aces and two blocks. Aiyana Tietze-Di Toro registered a match-high 21 digs.

The Blue Jays tied a season-high with 10 blocks, led by Krinock's six and four apiece from Garner and Shatto.

Maria Cristina Juelle and Amy O'Connor each had seven kills for Catholic, while Brynn Cooley finished with six kills and nine digs.

ELIZABETHTOWN 3, GOUCHER 0
25-17, 25-15, 25-20

Elizabethtown's postseason berth was already off the table after Moravian's 3-2 victory over Catholic in the preceding match, but the Blue Jays didn't allow that to stop them from another commanding victory.

The Blue Jays whitewashed Goucher for their 19th win of the season, the most for the program since 2012.

E-town's (19-10, 2-4 Landmark) offense was humming in the first two sets as they attacked at nearly a .450 rate in both. Elle Shatto came out of the gates swinging with a match-high seven kills in the Jays' 25-17 first-set triumph.

Garner had five kills in the opening set and another six in the second on her way to an errorless attacking performance. The junior from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, hit. 583 with 14 kills on 24 attempts and shared the team lead in kills with Shatto.

Gabby Anders surpassed the 30-assist mark for the 21st time in 28 matches this season, supplying 31 to finish the season with 971. The Lancaster native's 9.71 assists per set average is the third highest in a single-season in program history. Anders was just 29 assists shy of becoming the Blue Jays' first setter with 1,000 in a season since Crystal Agnew (1,101) in 2010.

Seniors Chelsea Gallagher, Morgan Reiss and Emily Sexton played their final match as Blue Jays against Goucher (5-18, 0-6). Gallagher totaled a team-leading 14 digs and five assists; Reiss had a kill, an ace and two digs; and Sexton collected a kill, a solo block and a dig.

Sarah Schneider chipped in eight kills for the Jays.

Goucher got 22 of its 38 kills from the tandem of Sarah Weeden (12) and Greta Cross (10). Weeden also had 11 digs for a double-double. Olivia Rhodes registered 35 assists and Virginia Estes 10 digs for the hosts.
 
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