WILLIAMSPORT, PA. - Nadia Moore (Durham, NC/Durham School of the Arts) recorded 13 kills and Kiersten Cote (East Rockaway/Kellenberg Memorial) added 12 kills and 12 digs as Cortland outlasted host Lycoming College in five sets to open play at the Lycoming Invitational. The Red Dragons lost in three sets to Dickinson College in their second match of the night.

Cortland (3-3) will wrap tournament action Saturday with matches versus Gettysburg at 11 a.m. and Clarks Summit at 1 p.m.

Cortland defeated Lycoming 27-25, 14-25, 25-23, 16-25, 15-11 in a match that lasted more than two hours. Moore finished with 13 kills and four errors in 38 attempts for a .237 attack percentage. Cote finished with a .182 attack percentage (12 kills, six errors in 33 attempts). Gabby Fernandes (Islip) led the Red Dragons with 17 digs, Taylor Konzen (Bohemia/Connetquot) added eight kills and nine digs, and Gabby Amelio (Pine Bush) led the team with 34 assists and four aces.

Lycoming, which entered the match with a 3-0 record, was paced by Kiannah Titus' 13 kills and 10 digs and Emily Morris' 42 assists and team-high 14 digs. Alysa McDevitt put down 11 kills with just one error in 18 attempts for a .556 attack percentage. Emily Hepner led the Warriors with 26 digs.

The opening set featured 15 ties, including every interval from 14-14 to 25-25. Cortland finally prevailed after a service error and a Konzen kill. Lycoming used a 9-3 run in the second set to turn an 11-8 lead into a 20-11 margin on the way to the win.

The teams were tied 18-18 in the third set before three Lycoming errors put the Red Dragons ahead 21-18. Cortland led 24-20 after an Amelio ace, but held on after the hosts closed to within 24-23. Moore's kill ended the set to give Cortland a 2-1 advantage. Lycoming led 18-14 in the fourth before finishing on a 7-2 run to force a fifth set.

Cortland jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the 15-point fifth on a Nicole Van Pelt (Montgomery/Valley Central) kill, a Lycoming misplay, a Fernandes ace and a block by Moore and Van Pelt. The Red Dragons led 8-2 at the change-over and eventually took a 14-7 lead on a Moore kill. Lycoming fought back with four straight points, two on Katie Hausknecht kills, before an attack error by the Warriors ended the match.

Konzen led Cortland versus Dickinson with 10 kills and a .333 attack percentage. Moore had six kills and a .286 attack percentage. Amelio totaled 20 assists and six digs and Emilee Chiavetta (Angola/Immaculata Academy) posted a team-high 12 digs. Jenna Schumann, Hannah Riley and Jamie Singer led a balanced attack for Dickinson (4-3) with six kills each. Kristin Allgaier finished with 16 assists and Tatiana Lopez had 13 digs.

Cortland trailed 12-5 in the first set but eventually got within a point three times at 18-17, 21-20 and 23-22. The Red Devils, however, won the set after an attack error and a Riley kill. Dickinson slowly pulled away from a 13-11 lead in the second set, and the Red Devils raced out to leads of 9-1 and 15-5 in the third set before holding off a Cortland comeback bid that got as close as 18-15.