The women’s volleyball team battled the entire evening, but Brooklyn College prevailed in a tightly contested CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) match, 3-1, on Tuesday night at West Quad Gymnasium.<\/p>\n
With the loss, the Bearcats fall to 1-1 in CUNYAC play (6-6 overall), while the Bulldogs improve to 2-0 (3-5 overall) in conference action.<\/p>\n
Three of the four sets were decided by three points or fewer as both teams traded momentum throughout the match. Brooklyn captured the opening set, 25-21, before Baruch responded with a 25-23 victory in the second to even the contest. The Bulldogs then edged the Bearcats in the final two sets, 25-22 and 25-23, to secure the conference win.<\/p>\n
The Bearcats recorded 46 kills, nine\u00a0service aces, and 74 digs in a strong all-around effort.<\/p>\n
Alicia Graves<\/a> led the attack with 12 kills while hitting an impressive .706 and added three blocks. Sarah Sellami<\/a> finished with a double-double, totaling 11 kills and 10 digs, while Maria Zecchinel<\/a> contributed eight kills and a team-high four blocks.<\/p>\n Setter Karen Pozo Castro<\/a> orchestrated the offense with 32 assists and also registered a match-high four service aces.<\/p>\n Defensively, Pei Qiong Ren<\/a> paced the Bearcats with a career-high 26 digs, while Ava Tartour<\/a> added 11 digs and two aces.<\/p>\n Erica Peralta<\/a> chipped in seven kills and three blocks, and Karolina Lundqvist<\/a> provided three kills and one ace.<\/p>\n Brooklyn was led by Olive Carroll, who recorded a match-high 19 kills, while Rose Kory totaled 24 assists and three blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women’s volleyball team battled the entire evening, but Brooklyn College prevailed in a tightly contested CUNY Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-360378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360378","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=360378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}