Box Score Medford, Mass. - The visiting Trinity College volleyball team lost, 3-0, against the Tufts University Jumbos on opening night of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schedule tonight at Cousens Gym. Set scores were 25-22, 25-20, and 25-20. Trinity loses for the first time in three six matches, falling to 7-3 overall. The Jumbos have won three in a row while improving to 8-3.
All three sets were closely contested. In the first, Tufts won out of a 22-22 tie on a pair of Trinity errors and a kill by junior Hayley Hopper (Carlsbad, Calif.). Tufts scored eight out of the last 11 points in the second set to move from a 17-17 deadlock onto the win. The Bantams led 7-3 early in the third set, but Tufts came back and won it with six straight points at the end.
Trinity senior tri-captain OH
Hannah Brickley (Melrose, Mass.) put down 11 kills, while sophomore MH
Kate Giddens (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) had 10. Sophomore RS
Hunter Drews (Clifton Park, N.Y.) served four aces. Defensively, first-year
Kristen Cooprider (Hopkinton, Mass.) finished with 15 digs and Brickley had two solo blocks with two assists.
Maccabee finished with a Tufts-high 11 kills in the match. Rubin served three aces. Junior tri-captain Jessica Ingrum (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and sophomore Carolina Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) both had 12 digs for Tufts, while first-year Elizabeth Ahrens (Richmond, Va.) went up for four blocks (two solos).
Trinity travels to play at league rival Connecticut College in a 1 p.m. match tomorrow, followed by a non-conference match in the Camel gymn against Johnson and Wales. Tufts hosts a tri-match at Cousens tomorrow with NESCAC action against Wesleyan at noon and then a non-league affair versus undefeated Roger Williams (14-0) at 4 p.m.
