{"id":369560,"date":"2026-10-10T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369560\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:06:14","slug":"volleyballs-comeback-falls-short-against-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369560\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball’s Comeback Falls Short Against Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Riverdale, N.Y. \u2014 Niagara held match point five times in the fifth set Friday night but couldn’t finish it falling to Manhattan 3-2 (27-25, 22-25, 25-21, 17-25, 18-16) at Draddy Gymnasium in Metro Conference action.<\/p>\n

The Purple Eagles fell to 1-13, 0-6 Metro, while the Jaspers improved to 3-14, 2-4 Metro.<\/p>\n

First set: Manhattan 27, Niagara 25<\/p>\n

The opening set was tied 12 times. Niagara opened with a Karlotta Kattai<\/a> kill, but Manhattan took an early lead and went up 10-8. Niagara tied it at 10-10 on a block by Kattai and Jakayla Brown<\/a> and then went in front 13-12 on a Kadee Goolsby<\/a> kill.<\/p>\n

The Purple Eagles pulled away late. Two straight points on Rottman’s serve (a Manhattan ball-handling error and a Payton Lee<\/a> kill) made it 17-14, and Niagara led by as many as four at 22-18 when the Jaspers made a bad set.<\/p>\n

Manhattan scored nine of the last 12 points to put themselves back in the set. Katelynn Rottman<\/a> tied it at 24-24, and Morreale’s attack error put Niagara up 25-24. It was the last time the Purple Eagles led. Niagara made three straight attack errors to drop the first set 27-25.<\/p>\n

Second set: Niagara 25, Manhattan 22<\/p>\n

Paisley Ka’ahanui<\/a> served the first six points, and four of them were aces. Rottman and Lee added kills, and Niagara had a 6-0 lead before Manhattan scored. The Purple Eagles pushed the margin to 14-8 when Kattai served an ace and set Rottman for a kill, and they led 17-11 after a Mikalah Curran attack error.<\/p>\n

From there, Manhattan outscored Niagara 7-1 over eight points to tie it at 18-18. Lee made two straight attack errors, and Morreale served an ace to make it 18-18. Ka’ahanui got a kill to put Niagara up 19-18, but Manhattan came back to lead 21-19.<\/p>\n

Niagara responded with the last four points. Kattai’s kill tied it at 21-21, and after Kaczynska put Manhattan back up 22-21, she tied it again at 22. Rottman’s kill made it 23-22, Kattai served an ace for 24-22 and Goolsby’s kill ended it.<\/p>\n

Third set: Manhattan 25, Niagara 21<\/p>\n

The Purple Eagles took a 4-3 lead on a Rottman kill and went ahead 6-5, but Manhattan took control with a Kuzniar ace and an Anna Duncan ace to lead 10-7. Niagara trailed 11-8 before it started to climb back.<\/p>\n

Trailing 12-10, Niagara scored the next four points, three of them on Noel Perkins’<\/a> serve, and Goolsby had two kills during the run. A Manhattan service error then made it 15-13 Niagara.<\/p>\n

Manhattan scored five straight to lead 18-15 Manhattan then blocked Goolsby and Rottman on back-to-back points to lead 21-16.<\/p>\n

Manhattan’s Laura Hernandez came in and made two straight attack errors to cut it to 21-18, but Duncan served an ace to make it 23-18, and the Jaspers held onto go up two sets to one.<\/p>\n

Fourth set: Niagara 25, Manhattan 17<\/p>\n

Niagara never trailed in the fourth set. Rottman and Ka’ahanui combined for a kill, Ka’ahanui served an ace and Manhattan made an error for a 3-0 lead. Niagara led 8-5 after Lee and Brown blocked Harris, and it led 11-6 after Brown and Goolsby blocked Curran. Kattai had an ace in the stretch, and her serve helped Niagara to a 10-6 lead.<\/p>\n

Manhattan got back within 11-10 on four straight points, but Goolsby ended the run with a kill, and Niagara went back in front by four at 15-11.<\/p>\n

Then Rottman went to the service line. She served six straight points from 17-12 to 22-12, and Kattai had three kills in the stretch. The other points came on a Manhattan error and a Jenkins kill that followed a block by Jenkins and Lee. Manhattan got four of the last six points but could not get close as the Purple Eagles forced a fifth and final set.<\/p>\n

Fifth set: Manhattan 18, Niagara 16<\/p>\n

Niagara fell behind 4-0 on kills by Powers and Karsyn Harris, a Lee error and a Manhattan ace, and it trailed 7-3 and 9-6. Niagara got to within 9-8 on a block by Goolsby and Jenkins and then an error by Powers, but Morreale had two kills to put the Jaspers up 11-9.<\/p>\n

Niagara then scored five straight points. Ka’ahanui’s kill cut it to 11-10, and Jenkins served four straight points, with two aces, a Kattai kill and a Powers error, for a 14-11 lead and the first of five Niagara match points.<\/p>\n

Manhattan scored three straight to tie it. Montilla and Kaczynska had kills, and Kuzniar served an ace to make it 14-14. Kattai’s kill put Niagara up 15-14 for another match point, but she was blocked by Montilla and Kaczynska at 15-15. Another Kattai kill made it 16-15, the fifth match point.<\/p>\n

It was the last point Niagara scored. Kaczynska tied it at 16, Rottman made an attack error and Duncan ended the match with an ace.<\/p>\n

Niagara Notes<\/p>\n

Niagara is now 33-27 all-time against Manhattan<\/p>\n

Four Purple Eagles tallied 10+ kills with Kattai leading the way with a career-high 19<\/p>\n

Goolsby recorded a career-high 13 kills<\/p>\n

Moreland achieved a career-high in digs with 17<\/p>\n

Ka’ahanui recorded her third 20+ assist game of the season with 23<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Niagara wraps up the weekend against Iona Saturday October 10 at 2:00 pm in New Rochelle, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Match: at Iona 10\/10\/2026 | 2:00 PM Oct. 10 (Sat) \/ 2:00 PM …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369560","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\/369560","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=369560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}