Franklin Pierce Topped by Merrimack in Five Games
Buchholz sets new career high with 14 blocks; Hookstadt posts career-best 60 assists
Karissa Hookstadt dished out a
career-high 60 assists to go with 14 digs to post a double-double
on Tuesday at Merrimack.
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NORTH ANDOVER, N.H.
(October 9, 2007) – Franklin Pierce University
received career-high efforts from junior co-captains Nicole
Buchholz (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) and Karissa
Hookstadt (Camarillo, Calif./Camarillo), but the Ravens
dropped a tough 3-2 (30-23, 27-30, 26-30, 30-28, 15-12) match to
Merrimack College in a key Northeast-10 Conference women’s
volleyball match on Tuesday evening at Volpe Gymnasium.
Buchholz led Franklin Pierce with 16 kills and a career-high 14
blocks, while Hookstadt set a new career best with 60 assists to go
along with 14 digs, five blocks and four kills. The Ravens also
received double-double efforts from sophomore Katie Ristow
(Miami, Fla./Miami Killian Senior HS), who recorded 14
kills and 13 digs, and freshman Diana Rutt (Dayton,
Nev./Dayton), who had 13 digs and 10 kills.
Sophomore Megan Feldmeth (South Pasadena, Calif./South
Pasadena) led the Ravens with a .414 hitting percentage
after posting 13 kills and only one error, while junior
Emily Schultz (Salem, Wis./Westosha Central) tied
a career high with 24 digs to lead the team.
Merrimack’s Molly Cindric (Westlake Village, Calif./Oaks
Christian) led the home team with an impressive 30 kills on 73
attacks, followed by Jordan Giboney (West Linn, Ore./Wilsonville)
with 11 kills and 12 digs and Ale Kuncaitis (Canton, Mass./Canton)
with 10 kills and 20 digs.
After Merrimack took the first game by a 30-23 score, the Ravens
took the next two games thanks to a pair of late runs. In both
games two and three, Franklin Pierce reached the 27-point plateau
and then took the last three points to take a 2-1 lead through
three games. The visitors could not pull out the elusive third
point, however, dropping a very close fourth game and narrowly
falling in the decisive fifth game.
Franklin Pierce (13-12, 7-3 NE-10), which falls to fourth place in
the Northeast-10 with the loss, will look to rebound on Saturday
afternoon, when the Ravens take on Southern Connecticut State in
New Haven, Conn., beginning at noon. Merrimack (9-9, 6-2 NE-10)
travels to Southern New Hampshire on Saturday at 11 a.m. to take on
the Penmen.