Volleyball Sweeps Manhattan in First Match of the Season

Friday, September 2

Lewisburg, Pa.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Manhattan

Volleyball Sweeps Manhattan in First Match of the Season

9/2/2011 5:54:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

By: Dartmouth

LEWISBURG, PA. — The Dartmouth volleyball team swept Manhattan, 3-0, in its first game of the season on Friday at the Bucknell Tournament. The Big Green are 1-0 overall and the Jaspers fell to 1-2.

The Big Green won the match with relative ease with the only the third set decided by less than eight points. In the third, Dartmouth jumped out to a 4-0 lead and won six of the first eight points. The Jaspers cut the lead to 6-5, before the Big Green stretched the lead to 10-5 on two kills and two attack errors by the Jaspers. Once again, Manhattan closed the gap to 10-8 by winning three straight points.

Eventually Dartmouth gained a 19-14 advantage, but the Jaspers responded by winning five straight points to tie the set at 19. After two attack errors by Manhattan and an ace by sophomore Meghan Cooney (Martinez, Calif.), Dartmouth was three points away from winning the match. The Big Green pushed the lead to 24-21 and looked to end the match on the next point. The Jaspers delayed the victory after two kills, but freshman Lucia Pohlman (Mill Valley, Calif.) secured the win for Dartmouth with a kill for a 25-23 victory.

In the opening set, Manhattan took an early 4-2 lead, but the Big Green came back and cruised to a 25-17 victory. Dartmouth used the momentum from the first set to easily win the second, 25-10.

Senior Annie Villanueva (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led the Big Green in kills with 11. Senior Madeline Baird (Austin, Texas) totaled 24 digs and recorded seven kills. Senior Kendall Houston (Austin, Texas) tallied 28 assists to go along with 10 digs and two kills. Dartmouth had four players with seven or more kills, including Villanueva, Baird, Cooney and sophomore Elisa Scudder (Ashburn, Va.). Dartmouth finished the contest with 40 kills and a .320 hitting percentage.

The contest marked the first career coaching victory for coach Erin Lindsey in her first match as a head coach.

Mailia McGuinnes had 11 kills for the Jaspers. Julie Bies led the team in digs with 10. Manhattan was its own worst enemy in the match, committing 27 attack errors and five service errors.

The Big Green play two matches on Saturday, Sept. 3, against Fordham at 3 p.m. and Bucknell at 5 p.m.