PITTSBURGH, PA (September 25, 2021) -- The Susquehanna University volleyball team made it a clean sweep for the weekend at Carnegie Mellon University, using momentum off last night's 3-2 win over the host Tartans to defeat both Mount Union College and Westminster College Saturday in play from Wiegand Gym. In the first match of the day, SU (9-4) knocked off Mount Union 25-19, 25-16 and 25-13, before defeating Westminster in four sets with scores of 25-19, 25-17, 15-25 and 25-15. 

Match 1: SU 3, Mount Union 0
The Susquehanna volleyball team hit .259, committing just 11 errors for the match while doubling up Mount Union 60.0-30.0 in points and chalking up 10 service aces to earning the sweep. Much like last night's match, the opening set was close through the middle part, with the teams tied at 17 after a kill from Riley O'Dowd. From that point, Susquehanna went on a 7-0 run to pull away for the win. 

The River Hawks would force Mount Union (12-2) into .071 hitting in the second set while hitting .250 in the stanza. Brooke LaCesa registered five kills in the stanza, while Lizzie Herestofa added three service aces as SU took a 2-0 match lead. 

It was much of the same in the third as Susquehanna hit a match-high .310, while holding MU to only seven kills in closing out the match. Rosina Esposito led the River Hawks with 11 kills and five digs, while O'Dowd finished with eight kills and three assisted blocks. 

Kody Dillon also finished with seven kills, while LaCesa tallied six terminations in addition to four digs and six assisted rejections. Herestofa posted 20 digs, a team-best, and Madison Rockey handed out a team-high 32 assists. 

Match 2: SU 3, Westminster 1
Esposito chalked up a double-double of 15 kills and 11 digs, adding four blocks, while O'Dowd also finished with 14 terminations to lead the River Hawks to a four-set victory over Westminster. 

In the first set, SU used a 5-0 run to take a 12-11 lead along with a later 6-2 spurt to pull away capped by a service ace by Ryan Rorls. With the score 22-18, Esposito tallied a kill and then finished the set with an ace to put Susquehanna up 1-0. 

In the second stanza, Westminster led 8-5 but the River Hawks went on a 4-0 run to take a 9-8 lead after a kill from Esposito. With SU up 14-12, SU went on another four-point run propelled by two kills by O'Dowd to take an 18-12 edge. Another 4-0 spurt at 18-13 was enough to help SU pull away for a 25-17 win. 

Westminster would not go lightly, hitting .323 in the third set in trimming SU's match lead to 2-1, but the River Hawks came back with a .217 hitting clip in the fourth while forcing WC into eight hitting errors in the fourth to clinch the victory. 

Dillon tallied six kills and five blocks with LaCesa adding six terminations, two blocks and a pair of digs. Rockey was steady again with 36 assists and five digs, Paige Sfiroudis posted seven total blocks and Herestofa led all players with 27 digs. Megan Nelson also had 16 digs in the win. 

Up Next

• SU opens Landmark Conference next weekend, October 2, at 1:30 PM against Drew University and Moravian University at Juniata College. 

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