Bay Path Splits in Volleyball Action
The Wildcats hosted NECC rival Daniel Webster and former NAC
opponent Castleton State College today at the Holyoke Community
College Gymnasium in a tri-match format.
In game one, Bay Path took the Spartans of Castleton State to a
lengthy five set match (3-2) ultimately defeating them 8-25, 25-18,
25-13, 21-25 and 15-9. In the second match, the Eagles of Daniel
Webster easily shut-down the Spartans 3-0 (25-8, 25-3, 25-19). In
the final match, a New England collegiate Conference game, Daniel
Webster clinched the #1 seed for the 2008 NECC Women’s
Volleyball Tournament defeating Bay Path 3-0 (25-13, 25-10,
25-10.)
The Wildcats’ freshman opposite Nadine Harkless (Westfield,
Mass.) led all players with 22 kills smashing a .390 attack
percentage. She chipped in nine digs, two assists, two service aces
for a match-high 24 points. Fellow freshman middle hitter Meghan
Golden (Wilbraham, Mass.) hit .231 with six kills. Defensively,
freshman Libero Chelsie Bonilla (East Hartford, Conn.) added a
season high 23 digs for the Wildcats. Sophomore Davi Chuong
(Easthampton, Mass.) also notched double figures with 12 digs.
Junior setter Stefany Bushey (Chicopee, Mass.) had 32 assists and
eight digs.
The Spartans’ junior middle blocker Jamie Lemieux (Argyle,
N.Y.) was the only in the match to notch a double-double with ten
kills and 10 digs. She had a .308 hitting percentage and chipped in
the match high five aces. Senior setter/outside hitter Gina
Nassivera tallied her team high points with 19 totaling 10 assists,
four kills and five digs
In the second bout of the day, the Eagles’ junior middle
blocker Kristina Rieger (Concord, N.H.) swung her way to an amazing
17 kills for a .400 attack percentage. She also chipped in the game
high 10 digs and added four aces. Fellow middle blocker and
freshman Emily Travis (Somerset, Mass.) had nine kills. Freshman
outside hitter SarahMaura Dwyer (Wayne, N.J.) hit .444 with five
kills and four digs. Freshman setter Caitlyn DePierro (Billerica,
Mass.) had 23 assist and seven digs.
Lemieux along with two other Spartans led with three kills, while
she tallied her team-high six digs. Junior outside hitter Hillary
Greenfield (Milford, N.H.) tallied a .400 attack percentage.
In the lone conference match-up of the day, the only double figures
came on the Eagles’ team from DePierro with 16 assists.
Rieger led all hitters with eight kills and chipped in six digs.
Senior and freshman outside and opposite hitters’ Jessica
Booth (Westminster, Mass.) and Liz Baldwin (Pawtucket, R.I.) both
tallied a .400 attack percentage with a combined eight kills.
Bonilla led the way defensively again for the Wildcats grabbing a
match high eight digs. Freshman middle hitter Kenaya King (New
Haven, Conn.) led her team with six kills. King was also the only
player on the day to block successfully in both matches.
