Women's Volleyball Drops a Pair at Nazareth Invitational
RIT Box ScoreRochester, N.Y. - October 3, 2008 - The Springfield College women’s volleyball team lost a pair of matches at the Nazareth Invitational on Friday evening.
For the first time in 2008, the Pride lost back-to-back matches and now stand at 14-4 on the year.
Despite winning the first two games in its opening match of the night against RIT, the Pride fell in five games, 14-25, 14-25, 25-20, 25-20, 15-7. Heather Lively led the way for Springfield in the loss with a team-best 18 kills.
In its second match of the evening, the Pride fell to the host Golden Flyers of Nazareth, 25-22, 14-25, 27-25, 25-23. Lively once again paced the Pride attack with 14 kills, while Sarah Lang-Rodean chipped in with 10 kills.
Springfield returns to action tomorrow when it wraps up play at the Nazareth Invitational with a pair of games. The Pride will play against Ithaca at 1:00 pm before taking on Brockport at 3:00 pm.
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Head Coach Joel Dearing
Joel Dearing will enter his 21st season as head women's volleyball coach at his alma mater in the fall of 2009. Dearing is regarded nationally as one of the sport’s best coaches and he has the resume to prove it. Dearing ranks in the top-10 in Division III history with a 670-298 (.692) overall mark in 28 seasons as a women’s volleyball coach.
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