PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Chatham Women's Volleyball (7-6, 3-2 PAC) team earned their first set of back-to-back conference wins this season with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-8) sweep over the Geneva Golden Tornadoes (7-12, 0-4 PAC) Friday night at the Athletic & Fitness Center.
The Golden Tornadoes would kick things off by securing the first couple points in the opening set. After
Zoie Bateman secured the Cougars their first point of the set with her kill, they were ready to battle. The Cougars would secure an early 7-3 lead after another kill from Bateman, followed by a kill from
Paige Watson, a service ace from
Kate Giannetta, and an error from the Golden Tornadoes. While the Cougars would secure this early lead, they would then enter a back and forth battle with the Golden Tornadoes trading points until the end of the set. The Cougars would secure the 25-15 set win with the help of two Golden Tornado errors.
While the Golden Tornadoes would get the first point again in the second set, and more points would be traded back and forth, the Cougars would have two separate point runs. The first one came early in the set to put the Cougars up 4-1 with the help of three Golden Tornado attack errors and a Bateman kill. Points went back and forth for the remained of the set, until the Cougars forced three more errors to be made from the Golden Tornadoes and the Bateman followed up with a kill again to make it 24-16.
The Cougars would take total control in the third, and final, set. While they did not score the first point, they made sure to take a stand and score the next six points to make it 6-1.
Evie White would lead the scoring with three service aces, Giannetta earned herself a kill, and the Golden Tornadoes committed two more errors. After giving up just one point, the Cougars would go on another run and score eight more points making the score now 14-2. In addition to more errors from the Golden Tornadoes, Watson earned three kills, Bateman got one kill, and Giannetta secured three service aces. To close out the set and secure the set, and match win,
Maren Balint would get a kill followed by a joint block from
Erin Grace and Bateman, and then finally, Bateman would get a kill.
Bateman led the Cougars with 10 kills, hitting .241 with just three errors on 29 attacks totaling 11 points. Giannetta led the Cougars with 11 assist and four service aces, hitting .286 with five digs. Leading the Cougars defense was led by a mix between Watson who led with 1.5 total blocks and
Kelly Dougherty who led with 18 digs.
The Cougars total six blocks to Geneva's one, had a 29-15 advantage in kills, and recorded eight services aces to their four.
The Cougars will continue PAC play, and look to extend their win streak, next Wednesday, October 14th when they head South to Washinton, PA to take on the Washington & Jefferson Presidents at 6 PM.
