The William and Mary volleyball team successfully celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, downing CAA-foe Northeastern 3-1 at Kaplan Arena. The Tribe (6-17) improves to 2-6 in conference play, while the Huskies fall to 9-13 overall and 1-7 in the CAA.
Box ScoreW&M had a number of players turn in great performances, including freshman
Paige Humphrey (Oak Hill, Va.) who had 10 kills and no errors on a .476 attack and also had four blocks on the night. Junior captain
Dessi Koleva (Torrance, Calif.) had her fifth double-double of the conference season with 15 kills, 19 digs, and a pair of blocks. Redshirt-sophomore
Michelle Heath (Rustburg, Va.) hd one of her best outings of the season, scoring 12 kills on a .345 attack along with eight digs and three blocks.
Also of note, junior
Mallory Brickerd (Ashburn, Va.) had eight kills on a .350 attack and five digs and two blocks, and freshman
Sydney Biniak (Elkridge, Md.) came off the bench to score seven kills with a block. Freshman
Austyn Ames (Wichita, Kan.) had 29 assists and four digs, and sophomore
Stephanie Paul (North Bethesda, Md.) grabbed a double-double with 23 assists and 10 digs. On defense, sophomore
Gabrielle Pe (Virginia Beach, Va.) and eight digs and junior captain
Carolyn Albright (Raleigh, N.C.) led all players with five blocks. Freshman
Sara Zumbach (Franklin, Tenn.) rounded out the notables with 16 digs, and a pair of service aces.
After Northeastern took the first set 25-23, W&M bounced back with three straight to win the match. The second set was broken open by a 7-2 Tribe run to go up 15-11. After Biniak and Albright combined on a massive block to go ahead 19-15 and force Northeastern to burn its final timeout, W&M got kills from Koleva and Humphrey as well as a block by Humphrey and senior
Liz Brown (Ellicott City, Md.) to cruise on to a 25-22 win.
In the third set, the Tribe jumped out in front quickly, and pulled away out as many as nine on a block by Albright and Heath that made it 19-10. Northeastern battled back into it, pulling within one at 22-21, before kills by Koleva and Humphrey on back-to-back points brought W&M to set point. The Huskies made one last gasp, but Brown finished the 25-23 win with a perfectly-located kill. The fourth set was a tight one all the way through, with Northeastern taking an 18-17 lead late that forced W&M to take its final timeout. Coming out of the break, Brickerd scored a kill to tie things up, and after another Huskies kill, Albright scored one of her own to make it 19-19. W&M took the lead for good on a Northeastern miscue, and Albright and Brickerd teamed up for a final block before Koleva made another kill to force the Huskies' final timeout with W&M leading 22-19. Heath's kill put the Tribe up 23-20, and Koleva picked her moment twice in the final five rallies to secure the win 25-23.
William and Mary is back on the road this week, traveling to James Madison on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
