Release courtesy of Pratt Athletics
BROOKLYN -- One match after firing 34 aces in a three-set win, Pratt Institute connected on 26 aces in the first-place Cannoneers 3-0 win over visiting Yeshiva University in Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) women's volleyball play Thursday night at the ARC.
Pratt sophomore Alice Vicente (Lisbon, Portugal/Georgian Court Univ.) gunned a team season-high 14 aces, besting the 10 Alli Houghton (Allentown, PA/Emmaus) totaled in the team's 3-0 win over Cooper Union six days ago. Vicente added a team-high 12 digs to complete a rare three-set triple-double, leading all players with 10 kills and a .381 attack percentage. Houghton tossed 19 assists and added six aces as Pratt improves to 5-0 overall, 2-0 in HVIAC play.
Two of sophomore Hannah Calderwood's (Clinton, WA/South Whidby) five aces led to a timeout from Maccabees head coach Joseph Agrest trailing 13-7. Three straight Houghton aces led to another timeout with Pratt on top 20-8, and a kill and an ace from Vicente closed out Pratt's 25-8 Game 1 win.
Once a Vicente kill snapped a 3-3 tie, an amazing 10 aces -- including streaks of five and three in a row -- from the outside hitter in Pratt's 15-0 run distanced the Cannoneers in the middle set. Kills from Calderwood and Vicente bookended a Yeshiva timeout at set point, turning out the lights on a 25-7 Pratt win.
Yeshiva took advantage of four early Cannoneers errors, and one of Emily Rohan's (Dallas, TX/Yavneh) team-high two kills sent the Macs out to a 5-2 lead in the third set. One of Calderwood's six kills tied the game at 7-7. With the set knotted at 10-10, a Vicente kill sparked a 15-3 run that she finished with four straight aces in a 25-13 Pratt win.
As a team, Pratt hit .169 (23/11/71), holding Yeshiva to a -.237 average. FreshmanAbby Nagy (Ann Arbor, MI/Pioneer) added four kills and nine digs, and in her first action as a Cannoneer, Joanna Yeung (Rego Park, NY/Townsend Harris) totaled two solo blocks while playing only one set.
Rohan led the Maccabees (0-7, 0-3 HVIAC) with two aces, two assists and a match-high 14 digs.
Winners of five straight to start 2014, Pratt returns to play against King's (NY) College at the Culinary Institute of America tri-match on Saturday at 2:30 p.m., with the Cannoneers taking on CIA in the 4:00 nightcap.
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Release courtesy of Yeshiva Athletics
BROOKLYN, N.Y.— The Yeshiva University women's volleyball team was defeated by Pratt Institute 3-0 (25-8, 25-7, 25-13) in a Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) contest on Thursday evening.
The Maccabees had five kills in the contest and were led by Marissa Almoslino with two kills, while Emily Rohan had 14 digs and a service ace. Shaina Hourizadeh added eight digs.
Pratt Institute was led by Alice Vicente with a triple-double of 10 kills, 12 digs and 14 service aces. Hannah Calderwood added six kills and five service aces for the host Cannoneers who remain in first place in the HVIAC with a 2-0 conference record to go along with a 5-0 overall record.
Yeshiva is back in action on Sunday for its first Skyline Conference contests of the season against Farmingdale State and Sage College in Farmingdale starting at 10 a.m..
