CLINTON, N.Y. - Cortland rallied to win the final two sets and defeat host Hamilton College, 3-2, in a non-league women's volleyball match. The Red Dragons won 21-25, 27-25, 13-25, 25-16, 15-10 for their first five-set win in five tries this fall. Cortland is now 11-0 lifetime versus the Continentals.
 
Junior Samantha Czeczotka (Elwood/John H. Glenn) finished with 15 kills, a .414 attack percentage and 27 digs for the Red Dragons. Sophomore Courtney Silberer (Centereach) also totaled 15 kills and added eight digs and sophomore Amanda May (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) had 10 kills, three aces and a .276 attack percentage.
 
Sophomore Nicole Silberer (Centereach) contributed nine kills and two aces to the winning cause. Junior Liz Roberts (Island Park/West Hempstead) recorded 53 assists for more than 10 assists per set, and junior Melanie McGuirk (Lido Beach/Kellenberg) served two aces and led the team with 31 digs. Sophomore Janine Patora (Salt Point/Arlington) added 16 digs and four kills.
 
Erin Donahue was Hamilton's top offensive performer with 23 kills, while Jessica Weston and Margaret O'Brien had eight kills apiece. Meghan Wilkinson and Kyndal Burdin totaled 25 and 18 assists, respectively, and Jamie Granskie led the Continentals with 25 digs.
 
Hamilton (1-5) finished the first set on a 5-3 run to win 25-21. The Continentals then led 23-18 in the second set, but Cortland (5-7) scored six straight points, including two kills by May, to take a 24-23 lead. Hamilton fought off one set point after a Cortland error and scored again to go up 25-24, but May answered with two consecutive kills, and an error by Hamilton gave the Red Dragons the 27-25 win.
 
The hosts thoroughly dominated the third set, scoring eight straight points to turn a 9-5 lead into a comfortable 17-5 score on the way to a 25-13 decision. But Cortland righted the ship in the fourth set. The Red Dragons used an 8-2 run to take a 14-7 lead and were never seriously threatened in a 25-16 win.
 
Cortland fell behind 6-4 in the fifth set before going on a 5-0 run that featured three Czeczotka kills and a Courtney Silberer ace. Czeczotka also provided two kills and an ace over the next six points to give Cortland a 13-8 lead. Hamilton tallied the next two points, but Cortland wrapped up the set and the match with a Nicole Silberer kill and a McGuirk ace.
 
Cortland finished the night with a .229 attack percentage, including a .524 percentage in the fourth set (12 kills, one error in 21 attempts) and a .276 percentage in the fifth set (10 kills, two errors in 29 attempts). The Red Dragons held Hamilton to a .140 attack percentage with negative percentages in the fourth (-.333) and fifth (-.214) sets.
 
Cortland will participate in a tri-match at Middlebury College on Saturday. The Red Dragons will face Middlebury at 1:30 p.m. and Colby-Sawyer from New Hampshire at 3:30 p.m.