Middletown, Conn. – Junior tri-captain L Sarah Blagden
(Charleston, S.C.) totaled 56 digs and freshman OH Hannah Brickley
(Melrose, Mass.) added 22 kills and 29 digs over two matches,
although the Trinity College Bantams lost, 3-2, against the Tufts
University Jumbos and, 3-0, against the Bowdoin College Polar Bears
in a pair of New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)
volleyball matches this afternoon at Wesleyan University.
Trinity, ranked No. 7 in New England, falls to 9-4 overall and 1-3
in the NESCAC.
Against Tufts, ranked No. 1 in New England and No. 25 in the
nation, Trinity took the first set, 26-24, but were outscored,
25-11, in the next, before the Jumbos edged the Bantams, 27-25, in
the third set. Trinity rallied to take the fourth set, 25-17,
but lost in the fifth set, 15-11. Bowdoin won a close first
set, 26-24, against Trinity, before winning the second, 25-17, and
the third, 25-21.
Tufts box score
Bowdoin box score
