WORCESTER, Mass. — The Trinity College volleyball team dropped a four-set match against Smith College (23-25, 25-15, 20-25, 22-25) and fell to Clark University (20-25, 20-25, 13-25) on Saturday in a trimatch hosted by the Cougars. Trinity dropped to 3-7 overall, while the Pioneers moved to 12-4 and Clark improved to 9-4.

The Bantams remain on the road as they travel to New England Small College Athletic Conference opponent Bates College for a 7 p.m. match.

Trinity vs. Smith College
23-25, 25-15, 20-25, 22-25

Senior co-captains Molly Bernstein (Oakland, Calif.) and Lola Craig (Los Angeles, Calif.) notched a season-high kills with 12 each and contributed to more than half of the Bantams' 44 total kills.

After trailing by four in the first set, a three-point Trinity run brought the score within two before back-in-forth points ended in Smith's favor, 25-23. The Bantams rallied back in the next set with eight unanswered points to open the second set as Caroline Howell (Hoston, Texas) went on a serving-run before Mia Moscicki snapped the streak with a well-placed kill. Trinity continued its' rampage to win 25-15 with the final point off a service error by Smith.

After being down 1-0 in the third set, Julia Torre's (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) five-point serving run put Trinity up 5-1. Trinity knotted it 12-12 with a kill by Maggie Barnes (Fayetteville, N.C.)  but a kill by Abby Hunt ended the match in a 25-20 loss. Smith got the match win in the fourth set as Trinity trailed the whole set after a kil by Howell set up by Kaila Dowd (Kennesaw, Ga.) knotted it five apiece.

Trinity vs. Clark University
20-25, 20-25, 13-25

Bernstein led the team with seven kills while Eva Lekovic (San Marino, Calif.) and Isabella Caffuzzi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) both tallied five.

After being down 13-23 in the first set, a five-point Trinity run started by a bad attack from Smith and kept alive by four serves from Barnes brought the visitors within six points. A kill by Caffuzzi and a serving ace by Torre notched the final two points for the Bantams before a kill by Sheyenne Williams ended the set in the Cougars favor.

Trinity opened the second set strong as a kill by Craig knotted the score at 3-3 followed by a four-point serving run by Molly put the team up 7-4. The Bantams held onto that lead until a kill by Sofia Scherrer tied it at 14-14 followed by 11 more Clark points for the set, 25-20.

With the score 19-7 in favor of the host team, Trinity rallied back with a Kill by Bernstein and a four-point serving run by Howell brought the team to 12-20 before Clark recorded the final five points.