LYNCHBURG, Va. --- The fourth-seeded
Lynchburg College volleyball team defeated #5 Roanoke College
25-22, 25-16, 17-25, 25-11 Wednesday evening in the quarterfinals
of the 2014 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship
Tournament.
The first set was tied at 22 all, but LC won the final three points
to take the all-important first game. The Hornets took a six-point
lead midway through the second set and were never challenged, while
the Maroons led 6-0 in the third set and never trailed. LC
controlled the deciding fourth game from the start, taking an 8-1
lead en route to the victory.
Senior Aricquel
Payne slammed a team-high 13 kills, one of four Hornets
with double figures.Amanda
Perry had 11 kills and five digs while Sierra
Strathy and Jennifer
Garrett each had 10 kills.Mackenzie
Ross had 42 assists, Sam
Page had 16 digs and Brittany
Crawford had 15 digs.
Brooke Bostwick paced Roanoke (21-9) with 10 kills, and Sarah Long
had nine. Jessica Block tallied 24 assists and Ryan Hedgpeth
contributed 19 digs.
Lynchburg (18-11) advances into the ODAC Tournament Semifinals to
face top-seeded Randolph-Macon College Saturday. The Yellow Jackets
will host the final four teams on their campus, with semifinal and
final game times to be announced.
--- This release is
courtesy of the Lynchburg College sports information department.
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athletics.lynchburg.edu