Box Score
Cambria Wierman,
Maura Brehl, and
Marissa Erminio all eight kills as the Pitt-Johnstown volleyball team made its 2015 PSAC home-opener a good one with a 25-11, 25-21, 25-16 sweep over Millersville University, Friday night in the Sports Center. The Lady Cats extended their winning streak to seven straight matches and improved to 11-2 overall and 5-0 in the PSAC Eastern Division.
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In the opener, Pitt-Johnstown broke open an early one-point lead with a 21-8 run and went on to coast to a 25-11 win. After Kelsi Ceriana cut Millersville's deficit to 4-3, the Lady Cats took over and pushed it out to 13-6 on kills by
Kendall Mahony and
Maura Brehl. The Lady Cats then made it 22-10 on a pair of Marauders' errors, before ending the set on two
Madeline George kills and one from
Cambria Wierman.
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Wierman's kill gave Pitt-Johnstown a 7-2 advantage to begin the second set, but Millersville battled back to knot it at nine on Erin Harman's kill. However, the Lady Cats scored the next four and never gave up the lead the rest of the way.Â
Devan Orr's kills extended it to 18-12, before the Marauders cut it to two on two occasions, with the last coming on another Harman kill that made it 21-19. Pitt-Johnstown scored of the next six points, including a kill from Mahony that sealed the 25-21 victory.
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Pitt-Johnstown finished-up the sweep with a 25-16 win in the third set. Pit-Johnstown erased a two-point deficit with 7-1 run, capped by George's kill and two consecutive Millersville attack errors. The Lady Cats extended it to 22-16 on Brehl's kill and went on to the three-set sweep.
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Along with her eight kills, Wierman had seven digs, while finished with seven and three blocks for the Lady Cats. Mahony had five kills and two blocks, and
Larissa Swank collected five kills and a block.
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Pitt-Johnstown also got 21 set assists from
Allison Mondorff and 15 assists and 10 digs from
Jessica Dillon. Orr had a match-high 23 digs for the Lady Cats.
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Harman had a match-high 11 kills, and Ceriana chipped-in seven kills for the Marauders, who dropped to 8-5 overall and 1-4 in the PSAC East.
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The Lady Cats host PSAC matches against Shippensburg University on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Sports Center and Lock Haven University on Tuesday at 7 p.m., before traveling to conference matches at East Stroudsburg University and Kutztown University next weekend.Â