The Pitt-Johnstown volleyball team coasted to a 25-22, 25-21, 25-12 PSAC Western Division Sweep over Slipper Rock, Friday night in the Sports Center.
Katelyn Courtney,
Grace Miller, and
Lualis Alvarado all had nine kills for the Mountain Cats, who improved to 12-6 overall and 5-4 in the PSAC West.
After Slippery Rock to a 9-7 first set advantage on a Mary Berger kill, Pitt-Johnstown responded with a 5-1 spurt, including a pair of kills from
Molly Ayres, to take a 12-10 lead. Consecutive kills from Alvarado pushed it out to 23-19, before the Mountain Cats closed out the 25-22 victory with kills from
Adiamar Beaz and
Cassie Pascarella.
In the second set, Courtney and Beaz's combined block, followed by a kill from Alvarado gave Pitt-Johnstown a 10-5 lead. Slippery Rock cut the deficit to 11-9 on Taylor Fellows service ace and two Pitt-Johnstown attack errors, but
the Mountain Cats regained control and built a 16-10 lead and went up 2-sets-to-none with the 25-21 win, capped by
Lauren Gechter's kill.
It was all Pitt-Johnstown to start the third set. Miller, Gechter, and Pascarella all had two kills to help the Mountain Cats run out to a 9-2 lead. Courtney's kills extended it into double digits at 14-4 and Pitt-Johnstown cruised to the three-set sweep with the 25-12 win.
Pitt-Johnstown got a balanced offensive attack against the Rock. Miller finished with nine kills and 14 digs, while Alvarado had nine kills and a dozen digs, and Courtney added nine kills with a .600 hitting percentage. The Mountain Cats also got eight kills from Pascarella and five kills from Gechter.
Beaz's match-high 36 set assists to go along with 11 digs led Pitt-Johnstown, and
Erin Carmody collected a match-high 23 digs.
Erica Selfridge led Slippery Rock with a match-high 12 kills, and Abigail Koeller chipped-in six kills.
With the loss, the Rock fell to 4-19 overall and 1-9 in the PSAC West.
Pitt-Johnstown travels to Mercyhurst for a PSAC West match on Saturday, before returning home to host conference matches in the Sports Center against Edinboro on Friday at 7 p.m. and Gannon for Senior Day on Oct. 30 at 1 p.m.
