FREDONIA, N.Y. – The Cortland women's volleyball team improved to 5-1 in SUNYAC play and maintained its second-place status in the league standings with a 25-23, 25-14, 25-21 sweep at Fredonia.
The Red Dragons (21-7 overall) will play at Buffalo State Saturday at 1 p.m. and will close the SUNYAC regular season at home next Friday and Saturday versus league leader Geneseo and current third-place Brockport.
Hannah Southcott (Princeton, WV) led Cortland with 11 kills with just two errors in 21 attempts for a .429 attack percentage. She also registered nine digs and a team-high three aces.
Maya Owens (Nyack) and
Nadia Moore (Durham, NC/Durham School of the Arts) had identical attack lines of five kills and one error in 20 attempts.
Malley Bowen (Tioga/Tioga Central) and
Gabby Amelio (Pine Bush) each finished with 12 assists.
Carly Haegele (Commack) led the Red Dragons with 10 digs, followed by Southcott's nine and Bowen's eight. Moore and
Camryn Anderson (Bronx/Cardinal Spellman) shared the team lead with two blocks apiece.
Fredonia (8-14, 1-5 SUNYAC) was led by Emily Jones with seven kills and a .357 attack percentage. Kourtney Krchniak distributed 23 assists and Sierra Keim had 19 digs.
Cortland led 22-19 in the first set before kills by Jones and Emma Booth cut the Red Dragons' lead to one. An Anderson block and a Southcott ace pushed Cortland's lead to 24-21. Fredonia answered with kills by Booth and Emily Leone, but a service error gave the Red Dragons the set.
Cortland took control early in the second set by scoring 11 of the first 14 points, and the lead grew to 17-6. Fredonia got no closer than eight the rest of the set. In the third, the teams were tied nine times between 2-2 and 13-13. Three straight kills by Southcott gave Cortland a 16-13 lead and the Red Dragons never trailed from that point.
Cortland hit .241 as a team for the match with at least a .200 mark in each set. Fredonia finished at .105 overall, although the Blue Devils bounced back from a minus-.161 in the second set to hit .314 in the third.
