The Cortland women's volleyball team earned its 20th State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title overall and first since 2012 with a four-set victory over visiting Geneseo in the league tournament championship match at Corey Gymnasium.

The top-seeded Red Dragons (26-3) defeated the second-seeded Knights, 25-20, 23-25, 25-16, 25-13, and earned an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III tournament. The tournament pairings will be announced on Monday at 12:30 p.m. on NCAA.com. 
 
Tournament MVP Nicole Van Pelt (Montgomery/Valley Central) led Cortland with 16 kills. Joining Van Pelt on the all-tournament team were Hannah Southcott (Princeton, WV), who finished with 15 kills and 15 digs, and Carly Haegele (Commack), who led the Red Dragons with 25 digs. 
 
Other all-tournament selections included Geneseo's Isabella Imbo and Emily Haber, Brockport's Andrea Coyle and New Paltz's Melanie Podstupka. 
 
In addition to Van Pelt's and Southcott's combined 31 kills, Alexa Guedez (Rye/Rye Neck) finished with nine kills and three blocks, Caterina Mangogna (Manorville/Eastport-South Manor) had six kills and two blocks, and Maya Owens (Nyack) totaled five kills. Ryan Hinshaw (Aurora, IL/Joliet Catholic Academy) ended with 24 assists and 13 digs and Meadow Wittman (Colden/Springville Griffith Institute) had 13 assists and eight digs. 
 
Imbo and Linda Rossi led Geneseo (14-12) with 10 kills apiece, followed by Madison Popielski with nine kills. Haber posted 29 digs and two aces, Morgan Michalski had 36 assists and 17 digs, and Jackie Borland finished with five blocks. 
 
Cortland trailed 15-14 in the first set before scoring five straight points, including two Southcott kills. Geneseo fought back to within 20-19, but the Red Dragons finished the set on a 5-1 run that featured kills by Guedez, Van Pelt and Mangogna and a Wittman ace. 
 
Cortland looked poised to take a 2-0 lead after holding a 22-15 lead in the second set, but the Knights closed the stanza on a 10-1 run. Madison Gamberg had three kills during that run. 
 
The third set was tied five times, the last at 9-9. Cortland took a 15-10 lead on a Mikenzie Martens (Carthage) ace, but Geneseo got back to within two at both 15-13 and 17-15. From that point, Cortland scored six points in a row, two by Van Pelt, to go up 23-15 on the way to the nine-point victory. Van Pelt finished the crucial set with seven kills and no errors in 10 attempts. 
 
In the final set, Cortland took control with an 8-0 run that extended a 14-10 lead to 22-10. The Red Dragons did not commit an attack error in the final set, putting down 12 kills in 26 attempts for a .462 attack percentage in the set. Southcott had six kills and Van Pelt and Guedez totaled three each to account for the 12 kills. 
 
Cortland finished the match with a .185 attack percentage compared to Geneseo's .051 mark.