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11/1/2025 | 1:00 PM


Nov. 01 (Sat) / 1:00 PM


at Seton Hill University

CALIFORNIA, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University volleyball team lost on the road in five sets (23-25, 25-22, 23-25, 25-20, 15-10) at California (Pa.) Friday in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division competition.
 
Friday’s result moves The Rock’s record to 9-13 overall and 2-7 inside the PSAC West while the host Vulcans improve to 16-9 overall and 3-6 in league matches. The contest featured 41 total ties and 19 lead changes between the two evenly matched teams.   
 
The highlight of the night for Slippery Rock came from Lauren VonderHaar, who broke the SRU program record for blocks in a career. The senior middle hitter compiled four blocks against the Vulcans, giving her 369 for her career to surpass the previous program record of 368 set by Laurie Flynn (1991-94).
 
VonderHaar, who now ranks 10th in single-season program history with 111 blocks on the year overall as well, also posted in 12 kills on a stellar .345 attack percentage to go along with one ace and seven digs.
 
Emry Rumbaugh and Callie Chevalier shared team-high honors in kills at 15 apiece with Rumbaugh adding five blocks and Chevalier making 18 digs for her 12th double-double of 2025. Rumbaugh achieved her career-high in kills courtesy of a solid .231 attack percentage.
 
Joining Rumbaugh, Chevalier and VonderHaar in double-digit kill production was Gwen McCarthy, who turned in a 10-kill, five-dig performance. In addition to providing SRU with three blocks, Victoria Nalbach nearly became the fifth Rock athlete with double digit kills as the junior middle blocker registered nine via a .300 attack percentage.
 
Slippery Rock’s setting tandem of Paityn Krause and Jaeden Yost turned in double-double performances as well with Krause distributing a career-high 34 assists and making 10 digs and Yost adding 24 assists and 18 digs.
 
Libero Kara Pasquale returned to the court and promptly matched her career-high with 29 digs to round out SRU’s top performers.
 
Collectively, Slippery Rock set team-season highs in kills (70), assists (64) and digs (106).
 
Slippery Rock took the first set for the 14th time in 22 contests this season via a narrow 25-23 win in the opener. The Rock and Vulcans then traded set victories over the following two games with Cal capturing the second, 25-22, and SRU grabbing the third, 25-23, sending the match into the fourth with Slippery Rock on the cusp of the match victory.
 
However, a road triumph was not to be as California first evened the match at 2-2 by way of a 25-20 victory in the fourth set to force a fifth and deciding set that went to the Vulcans in 15-10 fashion.
 
For the match, SRU held advantages over the Vulcans in kills (70-62), assists (64-54) and digs while the Vulcans edged The Rock in attack percentage (.170-.153), aces (7-1) and total blocks (11-7). Olivia Weiseman went for 16 kills, 22 digs and one ace to lead the Vulcans.
 
Slippery Rock returns to action 1 p.m. Saturday at Seton Hill University.

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