OSWEGO, N.Y. - Cortland opened its second SUNYAC women's volleyball weekend of the season with a four-set loss to host Oswego. The Lakers defeated the Red Dragons 25-18, 25-22, 19-25, 27-25.
Cortland (11-10, 1-3 SUNYAC) will play two league matches in Oswego Saturday. The Red Dragons will face Fredonia at 10 a.m. and Potsdam at 3 p.m.
Nadia Moore (Durham, NC/Durham School of the Arts) led Cortland with 10 kills and added three blocks.
Amanda May (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) and
Nicole Silberer (Centereach) each totaled eight kills.
Sarah Piacentini (Webster/Webster Schroeder) led the Red Dragons with 32 assists and was second with 14 digs.
Grace Staudt (Point Lookout/Kellenberg Memorial) registered a team-best six service aces and
Alexandra Graff (Apex, NC) led the squad with 18 digs. May and
Deja Smith (Suffern) shared the team lead with four blocks each.
Ariel Murawski led Oswego (10-8, 2-2 SUNYAC) with 18 kills and Emma Moriarty had 15 kills and 16 digs. Lauren Edwards and Lindsey Champitto each dished out 25 assists, Jessica Long had 22 digs, and Alison Sullivan paced the Lakers with 10 blocks, four solo.
Oswego led almost the entire way in the first set. Cortland held a 20-15 lead in the second set, but the hosts mounted a 7-0 run to take a 22-20 lead. Cortland was within 23-22 after a
Courtney Silberer (Centereach) kill, but Oswego closed the set on kills by Moriarty and Megan Russell.
The Red Dragons fell behind 5-0 to start the third, but bounced back and eventually took a 14-13 lead. After the Lakers tied it at 14-14, Cortland scored the next three points, two on Staudt aces, to go up 17-14. The Red Dragons never trailed the rest of the set.
Cortland looked like it might be on its way to forcing a winner-take-all fifth set after the Red Dragons opened leads of 22-20 and 23-21 in the fourth. Oswego scored three straight, two on Murawski kills, to go up 24-23. The Red Dragons fought off two match points on kills by each Silberer sister, but Oswego took a 26-25 lead on a service error and won the set and the match on a Moriarty kill.
