Net Play Leads Tartans to Two Home Wins

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University volleyball team closed a home weekend with two 3-0 victories against Presidents' Athletic Conference opponents Grove City College and Westminster College to move to 10-3 for the year.

Inside The Box Score Against Grove City

• The Tartans hit .215 for the match and held the Wolverines to a .009 hitting percentage.
• Freshman Isabella Sierra led with one block solo and three block assists with freshman Bella Woodard collecting three block assists.
• The Tartans combined for three block solos and 10 block assists.
• Junior Avani Seshiah hit .500 with a career-best nine kills and no errors to lead the team.
• Woodard had seven kills while junior Jane Dean had six kills and hit a team-best .556 for the match.
• Senior Stella Yan collected 32 assists and 11 digs to record her 10th double-double of the season.
• Junior Mindee Lai had a match-best four service aces.
• Junior Laura Reichard led with 16 digs while sophomore Abby Chen had 14.

Inside The Box Score Against Westminster

• The Tartans hit .214 for the match while the Titans hit just .018.
• The Tartans collected 10 block assists and two block solos in the match with Sierra tallying one block solo and two block assists.
• The offense was spread around with Reichard leading the team with seven kills and a hitting percentage of .333.
• Yan dished out 34 assists and led the team with three service aces.
• The team collected 12 service aces for the match, a season-best.
• Chen led the defense with 19 digs.

Next Up

The Tartans will host the University Athletic Association Round Robin #2 on Sunday, October 2 and face seventh-ranked Emory University at 1:00 p.m. and the University of Rochester at 3:00 p.m.