{"id":344726,"date":"2026-09-12T04:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:50:16","slug":"womens-volleyball-begins-friar-classic-against-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344726\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Volleyball Begins Friar Classic Against Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    PROVIDENCE, RI\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers Women&#8217;s Volleyball team (0-7), in their first day at the Friar Classic, dropped their opening match to host Providence in three sets\u00a0(14-25, 13-25, 9-25) inside Alumni Hall on Friday evening.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tManhattan scored three of the match&#8217;s first four points, highlighted by a dual block from <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/emma-francesconi\/12565\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12565\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Francesconi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/abby-morreale\/10855\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10855\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Morreale<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n\tTwo <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/hanna-kaczynska\/12568\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12568\" target=\"_blank\">Hanna Kaczynska<\/a> skills stood out as the Jaspers extended their lead to 8-6 in the opening stanza.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tFollowing a midway surge from the hosts, another kill from <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/katie-powers\/10853\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10853\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Powers<\/a> shortened the visitor&#8217;s deficit at 14-12.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tProvidence used a 11-2 stretch to take the opening set 25-14.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe home team flipped the script for the second dance, taking a 10-3 advantage in the blink of an eye.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tA service ace from Francesconi\u00a0was part of three unanswered scores from the Green and White, but Providence did not waver their attack and won the second set 25-13.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tTwo attack errors early in the third set trimmed Manhattan&#8217;s deficit to 8-4.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tKaczynska teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/brooke-johnson\/10863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10863\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Johnson<\/a> for a pair of kills, scoring the Jaspers&#8217; seventh and eighth points.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tProvidence set the tone the rest of the way, winning the final set 25-9 along with the match.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>STATS AND NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSophomore right side <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/hanna-kaczynska\/12568\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12568\" target=\"_blank\">Hanna Kaczynska<\/a> led the way in kills for the Green and White, tallying seven.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSophomore outside hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/emma-francesconi\/12565\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12565\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Francesconi<\/a> registered the lone service ace for the Jaspers.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tManhattan hit at their\u00a0best rate in the opening set, with a .111\u00a0clip.&#13;<br \/>\n\tJunior setter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/ori-briger\/12663\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12663\" target=\"_blank\">Ori Briger<\/a> spread the most wealth, serving up 11 assists on the evening.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>\nHead Coach Brooke Alverson and the Jaspers will conclude their weekend at the Friar Classic tomorrow (Saturday), September 12. The Green and White will start with the Crusaders of Holy Cross at 11:00 AM and wrap up with the Skyhawks of Stonehill at 3:30 PM\u00a0inside Alumni Hall. There will be no video stream of either match, with live statistics available for both matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow Manhattan Women&#8217;s Volleyball on X and Instagram (@JaspersVB).<\/p>\n<p>                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; PROVIDENCE, RI\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers Women&#8217;s Volleyball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-344726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}