Box Score SALEM, Ore. – Held to a .109 hitting percentage by the Corban University Warriors, the Multnomah University Lions dropped a 3-0 decision (25-16, 25-18, 25-11) to the NAIA's 12
th-ranked team in a Cascade Collegiate Conference volleyball match Friday night here at the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center.
Multnomah took early one-point leads in the first set on kills by
Maile Kam and
Hannah Snyder, but Corban went on an 8-0 run midway through the stanza to build an insurmountable 21-10 advantage. Adriana Aguayo closed out the set with a kill for the Warriors.
A kill by
Miranda Halverson gave the Lions their largest lead of the night at 6-3 in the second set, and were up 7-6 following a
Sydney Amundsen spike when the Warriors seized control with a 6-0 run. Their lead mushroomed to 19-11 on a kill by Demi Winters, and the Lions got no closer than five the rest of the way.
The Lions hung with the Warriors early in the third set and were tied at 5-5 after another Amundsen winner, but the home team took the lead for good on a kill by Alaina Gentili. An 8-0 run later in the set made it 22-9 and the Warriors cruised home, hitting a sizzling .593 in the set with 17 kills and only one error.
--- By the Numbers: Patty Batoon paced the Lions with eight kills and Amundsen added seven, with
Marissa Rhodes contributing 16 assists to the offense.
Sabrina DeJesus-Bair led the defense with eight digs, and Amundsen had a pair of block assists.
Corban, which hit .407 (43-8-86) for the match, was led by Gentili with 15 kills and Aguayo with 11. Madison Milligan had 20 assists and Cierra Leopoldino 11. Haley Wells made 12 digs, and Gentili and Bethany Filipenko posted four blocks each.
Multnomah is now 5-14 on the season and 1-10 in the conference, while Corban improved to 15-6 overall and 10-2 in the CCC.
--- Next: Multnomah continues its road trip at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore., Saturday at 1:00 p.m. … Corban hosts Warner Pacific College Saturday at 5:00 p.m. … Both matches are CCC contests.
