QU Volleyball Falls In Five-Setter In Season Opener

Friday, August 25

Fort Wayne, IN

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

0-1

Fort Wayne

1-0

Quinnipiac

Fort Wayne

QU Volleyball Falls In Five-Setter In Season Opener

8/25/2017 9:36:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Fort Wayne fought off two match points in the fifth set and tallied the final three points to earn a 3-2 win over Quinnipiac in the season opener for both teams at the Fort Wayne Invitational Presented by Hyatt Place on Friday evening at the Gates Sports Complex.

SCORE
Fort Wayne 3 / Quinnipiac 2 (25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 25-16, 17-15)

LOCATION
Gates Sports Center / Fort Wayne, Ind.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (0-1) / Fort Wayne (1-0)

NOTES

Junior Jen Coffey (Merrimack, N.H. - pictured) had seven of her team-high 15 kills in the fifth set, the seventh of which gave Quinnipiac a 14-13 lead.
Coffey started off the fifth set with four straight kills to help the Bobcats to a 5-0 lead, before Fort Wayne answered with five straight to tie it. Neither team ever led by more than one point until the Mastodons finished off a 3-0 run for a 17-15 win to end it.
After Fort Wayne won the first set 25-20, Quinnipiac closed out the second set on an 8-2 run to level the match at 1-1 the Bobcats trailed by as many as five at 17-12 before rallying for the final four points to take the set. An ace from Kat Miller (Collegeville, Pa.) made it 24-32, and after a Fort Wayne timeout, Natalie Alechko (Old Tappan, N.J.) finished it off with a kill.
Freshman middle hitter Gabby Horman (Smithtown, N.Y.) earned the start in her first collegiate match and had five hills in 11 attempts
Senior middle hitter Elizabeth Kloos (Munster, Ind.) was playing in her home state for the first time in her college career and had eight kills and fa team-high our blocks.
Quinnipiac trailed 21-20 in the third but came back for a 25-23 win. Miller started a 4-0 run with a kill and an ace and freshman Morgan Sherwin (Coplay, Pa.) had a kill to make the score 24-21. After Fort Wayne won two straight points, a Fort Wayne service error gave the Bobcats a 2-1 win
Fort Wayne used a 10-1 run in the fourth set to turn a 10-9 deficit into a 19-11 lead and went on to a 25-16 win to extend the match to a fifth set.
Sherwin led Quinnipiac with 21 assists in her college debut, splitting setter duties with sophomore Maria Pansari (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), who had 17 assists

QUINNIPIAC GAME LEADERS
Kills: Jen Coffey, 15
Assists: Morgan Sherwin, 21
Digs: Alejandra Rodriguez, 15
Blocks: Elizabeth Kloos, 4

UPCOMING GAMES
Quinnipiac will be back in action tomorrow on the second day of the Fort Wayne Invitational with matches against Toledo and SIU Edwardsville