Volleyball Drops Close Match To Merrimack, 3-1
Buchholz leads Ravens with 19 kills
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RINDGE, N.H. (September 17, 2008)
– Senior Ale Kuncaitis (Canton, Mass./Canton) led all players
with 22 kills and added 10 digs on Wednesday night to post a
double-double and lead Merrimack past the Franklin Pierce
University volleyball team, 3-1, in Northeast-10 Conference action
at Franklin Pierce’s Fieldhouse. Senior Nicole Buchholz (Broadlands, Va./Stone
Bridge) led four Ravens in double figures with 19 kills.
The first two sets were closely contested, as Merrimack took the
opener, 25-21, and Franklin Pierce responded with a 27-25 victory
in the second set. From there, Merrimack posted a 25-14 win in the
third set and squeaked out a 29-27 fourth-set victory to finish off
the match.
Buchholz led Franklin Pierce with 19 kills on the evening. She was
joined in double digits by junior Caitlynn Parnell (Medina,
Texas/Medina), senior Emily
Schultz (Salem, Wis./Westosha Central) and junior Katie Ristow (Miami, Fla./Miami
Killian), who posted 12, 12 and 11 kills, respectively.
Schultz tallied 16 digs while Parnell tacked on 12 digs as both
completed double-doubles. Defensively, junior Erika Takegawa (Fukuoka, Japan) led the
Ravens with 21 digs while Parnell tallied five blocks (two solo).
Senior Karissa Hookstadt
(Camarillo, Calif./Adolfo Camarillo) dished out 54 assists
on the evening.
For Merrimack, Kuncaitis led the way with her 22-kill, 10-dig
double-double. Junior Lisa Barr (Alberta, Canada) and sophomore
Molly Cindric (Westlake Village, Calif./Oaks Christian) joined
Kuncaitis in double figures offensively with 15 and 14 kills,
respectively. Sophomore Alyssa Pickert (Tinley Park,
Ill./Lincoln-Way East) led four Warriors in double figures
defensively with a match-high 25 digs while senior Kristin
Applegate (Hampstead, N.H./Pinkerton) led all players with six
blocks (one solo). Sophomore Elyse Lorenz (Frankfort,
Ill./Lincoln-Way East) posted 12 digs and a match-best 57 assists
to notch a double-double.
The Ravens (3-7, 1-1 NE-10) return to the court over the weekend
for a quartet of matches at the Swamp Fox Invitational hosted by
Francis Marion in Florence, S.C. Franklin Pierce will face
Fayetteville State and Augusta State on Friday before squaring off
with Carson-Newman and host Francis Marion on Saturday. Merrimack
(5-4, 1-0 NE-10) returns to action on Sept. 20 at Southern New
Hampshire.