FRANKLIN, Mass. – October 13, 2021 – The Dean College women's volleyball team swept Lesley, 3-0, for the second time this season. The Bulldogs won by scores of 25-14, 25-23 and 25-22.
Dean improves to 4-13. The Bulldogs travel to Albertus Magnus on Saturday for a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) tri-match that includes Norwich. Lesley falls to 0-13. The Lynx travel to New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) foe Eastern Nazarene on Saturday.
Dean junior
Sari Albury (Nassau, Bahamas) posted a career-high 16 kills on .440 hitting and added four blocks. First-year
Emily Larouche (Agawam, Mass.) tallied four kills, four aces and four digs. First-year
Emily Ball (Feeding Hills, Mass.) had four aces, two blocks and two kills. Sophomore Annabella Driscoll (Plymouth, Mass.) and first-year
Lena Muraski (Manchester, Conn.) had 12 and 11 assists, respectively.
Lesley was led by Sydney Hart's (Stafford, Va.) 12 kills. First-year Megan Lorenze (Concord, N.H.) registered a match best six aces to go with four kills and a match-high 11 digs.
The first set saw early back and forth action with five ties before Dean pulled away. With the scored knotted at 8-8, the Bulldogs used a 12-2 run, capped by an Albury kill, to take command. The set ended on a Ball service ace. Albury had six kills on .714 hitting. Dean as a team hit .348 in the frame.
In the second set, the Lynx raced out to a 9-2 advantage behind a couple of kills from Hart. Dean slowly chipped away and eventually erased the deficit to take an 18-16 lead on a
Hope Laiter (Riverside, R.I.) kill. The set would be tied three more times, including at 23-23. A Lesley service error and another kill by Albury gave Dean the 25-23 win.
The third set was close throughout and featured 13 ties and eight lead changes. With the score tied at 20-20, Dean benefited from a couple of Lesley miscues and a Ball kill to take a 23-20 lead and never looked back. Albury ended the set for the second time in a row with a kill to lift the Bulldogs to a 25-22 win. Albury had eight kills in the frame.
