Mackenzie Garner vs. Dickinson 9/25/17
Dan Gittis
0
Dickinson DC 5-9
3
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 10-3
Dickinson DC
5-9
0
Final
3
Elizabethtown ETOWN
10-3
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Dickinson DC 14 14 23 (0)
Elizabethtown ETOWN 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Jays dispatch Dickinson for seventh straight win

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Mackenzie Garner backed up Monday's Landmark Athlete of the Week honor with a season-high 21 kills and Sarah Schneider supplied six aces as Elizabethtown extended its winning streak to seven matches with a 3-0 sweep of Dickinson inside Thompson Gymnasium.

Garner started strong with seven kills on nine attempts in the opening set, which E-town won, 25-14. The Huntingdon native added seven kills in both the second and third sets as well, with the Blue Jays earning another 25-14 victory in the second and rallying for a 25-23 win in the third to complete the sweep.

Elizabethtown (10-3) surrendered the lead for a single point in the first set, before breaking away for a commanding 11-point victory. Garner and Schneider were at the forefront of the action when the Blue Jays rung up 10 unanswered points to go up 23-11. Garner recorded three kills in the run. Schneider started it with a kill and had all three of her aces in the set while serving for nine straight E-town points.

Senior middle hitter Morgan Reiss then took her turn stifling the Red Devils (5-9) when she registered two aces in a 7-1 Elizabethtown run to start the second. The Blue and Gray surged yet again late in the set with Schneider serving. Gabby Anders (two), Garner and Elle Shatto all had kills and Schneider collected two more of her career-high six aces in sending the Jays to seven consecutive points that turned an 18-11 advantage into a 24-11 lead.

Schneider, who also totaled six kills, has 11 aces in her last three matches.

Dickinson did everything it could to avoid the sweep, building a 22-16 lead in the third on a 7-0 run of its own. Erin Bongo came up with a pair of kills and Norma Jean Park had an ace and a kill in the run, but the Red Devils simply couldn't hold on. Seven straight errors from the visitors put the Blue Jays up 23-22 and Reiss' third ace of the evening gave E-town match point.

Two points later, Anders set up Garner for the kill to end it.

Garner, already ranked second in the Landmark in hitting percentage at .384 coming into the night, only helped her ascent to the top. She rattled off her 21 kills on just 31 attempts for a .613 success rate against Dickinson. Shatto manufactured eight kills and Schneider six as the Jays out-killed the Red Devils by 14, 40-26, and hit over .300 (.306) for the fourth time this season.

Anders had a match-high 29 assists to go with three kills, six digs and a block assist.

Elizabethtown's seven-match winning streak is its longest in five seasons when the 2012 team put together nine in a row. To match that mark, the Blue Jays will have to navigate past Landmark rivals Moravian and Juniata on Saturday afternoon at Thompson. The Moravian match will begin at noon, while E-town takes on the ninth-ranked Eagles at 5 p.m.
 
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