Volleyball falls to Westfield State

North Adams, MA- Westfield State swept MCLA in MASCAC action tonight 25-22, 25-19, 25-23. With the win the Owls improve to 9-10 (5-1 MASCAC) while MCLA falls to 13-7 (4-2 MASCAC).

Westfield State would maintain a slight lead for most of the first set until three straight points on Shawna Crowley's serve would give the Owls an 18-13 lead and they would enjoy that same 5-point advantage at 22-17 forcing an MCLA timeout. The Trailblazers would win the next four points, but Westfield would steady the ship and take the first set 25-22.

The Owls would jump out to a 7-1 second set lead and never looked back, cruising to a 25-19 win to go up 2-0 in the match.

Westfield would have another strong start in the third set taking an early 5-1 lead. This time MCLA would stay within striking distance and after a Chloie Garber (Eagle River, AK) kill, the Trailblazers would take their first lead of the match at 17-16. Neither team would have more than a one-point lead going forward until following an Elizabeth Brown (Lee, MA) kill to tie the set at 23-23, the Owls closed things out winning the final two points to take the set 25-23 and to complete the sweep 3-0.

Ashley Crowley (10 kills, 10 digs), Shawna Crowley (12 kills, 17 digs) and Julia Dangel-Garcia (14 digs, 27 assists) led the way for Westfield State who now tied with Framingham State atop the MASCAC standings.

Garber (11 kills, 11 digs) and Brown (11 kills, 13 digs) as well as Ellie Walter-Goodspeed (Auburn, WA) with 17 digs and Shannon O'Brien Unionville, CT) with 31 assists led the Trailblazers.

Westfield State will travel to Rhode Island College to participate in a tri-match this Saturday along with Mass Maritime. MCLA will return to action next Tuesday when it hosts SUNY Cobleskill at 6pm for a nonconference match.