Sophomore Laura Huselton posted a match-high 12 kills with five digs and an ace in tonight's sweep of Assumption. |
Stonehill Sweeps Assumption, 3-0
Wirth dishes 32 assists as Skyhawks win eighth of last nine
WORCESTER, Mass. (October 13, 2009) - Stonehill College picked up its eighth win over its last nine contests with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-20, 25-12) victory at Assumption College in Northeast-10 Conference volleyball action at Laska Gymnasium tonight.
Junior setter Andrea Wirth (Mesa, Ariz./St. Mary's) led a balanced Stonehill attack as she dished out 32 assists to go with nine digs and three service aces. Sophomore Laura Huselton (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield) posted a match-high 12 kills to go with five digs and an ace, while junior Laura Noonan (Hampstead, N.Y./Bishop Guertin) added nine kills with just three errors on 12 total attacks for a .500 hitting percentage, five digs and three blocks.
Junior Erin Johnson (Centerville, Mass./Barnstable) contributed with eight kills and only two errors on 17 attacks for a .353 hitting percentage. Classmate Justine Thompson (Merrimack, N.H./Bishop Guertin) posted a match-high 17 digs, while freshman Erin Kelly (Tinley Park, Ill./Marist) chipped in ten.
Junior Andrea Wirth dished out a match-high 32 assists to go with nine digs and three service aces. |
Junior Aimee Drainville (Rockville, R.I./Chariho) led Assumption with eight kills, while senior Kelly Blumenauer (Islip Terrace, N.Y./East Islip) dished out 20 assists to go with four assists, three kills and a block assist. Freshman Steph Whooten (Norton, Mass./Bishop Feehan) chipped in with ten digs and three service aces.
A Whooten service ace knotted set one at 22-22, but Stonehill recovered to win the final three points on an Assumption attack error and back-to-back Noonan kills. The final three-point margin matched the largest for either team in the opening frame. The Greyhounds held a 12-9 advantage in the second set after two-straight Skyhawk hitting errors - one on a block from sophomore Kristen Lamoureux (Dover, N.H./St. Thomas Aquinas). However, Stonehill recovered with five-straight points, two off Huselton kills, to regain the lead (14-12) and never relinquished it in the set again.
Stonehill used a 10-1 run to turn an early 3-1 deficit in set three into a commanding 11-4 advantage on its way to sealing the victory. Huselton posted five kills during the run, while Wirth served up three-straight aces during a later stretch that pushed the Skyhawks lead to 16-5.
Stonehill (11-5, 6-1 NE-10) is back in action on Friday when it hosts Pace University at Merkert Gymnasium at 7 p.m. Assumption (1-13, 0-7 NE-10) visits Franklin Pierce University on Friday at 7 p.m.
