Box Score vs. Gwynedd-Mercy
Box Score vs. Eastern Mennonite
Box Score vs. Willamette
Box Score vs. Moravian
Box Score vs. Eastern
All-Tournament Team
GETTYSBURG,
Pa. – Jessica Cortese
(Lancaster, PA/Hempfield)
and Nicole Barr (Annapolis, MD/Broadneck) combined for 30 kills and 52 digs as Gettysburg
volleyball team defeated Eastern 3-2 in the championship
match of the 2004 Battlefield Classic on Saturday.
The Bullets
(7-2) got revenge after the Eagles (6-3) won last year’s
Battlefield Classic in four games.
Eastern
took a 1-0 lead in the match with a 30-19 victory before
Gettysburg
scored a 30-23 win to knot the match score at 1-all. The
Eagles took game three 30-24, but the Bullets staved off
elimination with a 30-26 game four victory before winning
the deciding set, 17-15.
Gettysburg defeated Willamette
3-1 and Moravian 3-0 in pool play to advance to the title
tilt.
In the match
against the Bearcats (6-2), Cortese
became the seventh player in program history to record 1,000-career
kills and 1,000-career digs, tallying 21 digs to put her
just over the plateau. With 14 digs in the match, Barr came
within five of eclipsing the same mark.
Two digs
into the championship match, Barr joined Cortese
in the exclusive club. The opposite side hitter grabbed
a team-high 28 digs – a number that tied her career
high. Cortese also set a new career
high in the same match with 24 digs as did Steph Vial (Hanover, PA/Delone Catholic),
who also finished with 28 digs. As a team, the Bullets finished
with 117 total digs.
Junior setter
Shannan Smith (Milmont Park, PA/Ridley)
one-bettered her previous career-high with 57 assists in
the title match.
In the deciding
game of the championship match, Gettysburg
rallied after being down 5-0 to take a 6-5 advantage behind
five straight service points from Smith. After back-and-forth
play, Cortese put away one of
her team-high 16 kills to open up a 13-11 edge.
The Eagles
clawed back to close to within 14-13, but back-to-back errors
from the Bullets gave Eastern a 15-14 lead and force a Gettysburg
timeout.
A service
error out of the timeout knotted the match at 15-all before
Katie Heffner
(Easton, PA/Easton) found the
floor for her 10th kill of the match off a Smith
for the 16-15 lead.
After Eastern’s
final timeout, a return hit from the Eagles sailed long,
giving the Bullets the win and the 2004 title.
In game
one, Eastern opened up an 11-2 advantage and never looked
back en route to the match lead.
In game
two, Gettysburg once again found itself in an early
hole, but climbed back to tie the match at 5. With the game
tied 10-all, the Bullets grabbed six of the next eight points
to open up a 16-12 cushion.
The Eagles
once again pulled even at 19-all, but a side-out and seven
consecutive service points from Erica Rau (Oakland Park, FL/Pine Crest)
gave Gettysburg a 27-19 lead en route to the 30-23 win.
In game
three, Eastern notched the first two points before opening
up a 10-5 advantage. The Bullets tallied five of the next
seven points before a 6-1 Eagles’ run, capped by an
ace by Emma Klein,
gave Eastern a 17-11 lead.
Gettysburg
got as close as two on four occasions down the stretch but
could not complete the comeback as the Eagles held on for
a 30-24 win and a 2-1 match lead.
Facing elimination
in game four, the Bullets quickly found themselves in a
5-1 hole but slowly worked back into the game, tying the
game at 12-all.
Two straight
kills from Barr allowed Gettysburg
to open a 17-14 lead, but the Eagles rolled off six of the
next nine points to once again knot the match at 20.
After back-and-forth
play and with the Bullets clinging to a slim 27-25 advantage,
Vial served a pair of aces for a 29-25 lead, forcing the
deciding game.
Erin Barkdoll (Dover, PA/Dover) also
finished in double digits in kills (10) while Margaret Hallahan (Huntingdon, PA/Huntingdon)
and Smith added 14 and 11 digs, respectively.
In the first
match of pool play on Saturday, Gettysburg
rallied after dropping the first game to Willamette
30-26 to win the match, 3-1. The Bullets evened the match
with a 30-27 game-two victory before taking game three 31-29
and game four 30-22.
Barkdoll led the attack with 15 kills while Cortese and Barr added 14 and 10, respectively. Cortese and Barr completed the double-double with 21 and 14
digs, respectively. Smith added 51 assists, and Vial steadied
the 97-dig performance with 27 of her own.
Also contributing
double-digit dig performances in the effort were Hallahan
(13) and Smith (10). Heffner and Rau added three total blocks
and Smith had a team-best three aces.
Gettysburg swept Moravian to round out pool play, winning 30-9,
30-20, 30-28. Barkdoll led the
attack with 18 kills. Rau added 10 while Cortese
chipped in with eight. Smith added 23 assists.
Vial led
the team with 14 digs. Cortese
added 11 digs and six aces. Rau also notched six total blocks
and Barkdoll added four of her
own.
In Friday’s
opening match against Gwynedd-Mercy,
Vial sparked a 6-1 rally with two straight aces to bring
the Bullets back from a 10-4 deficit in game three and complete
a sweep of the Griffins, 30-23, 30-21, 30-23.
Barr led
the attack in that match with 10 kills while Cortese
and Rau added eight apiece. Smith added 23 assists and Hallahan
chipped in with 14 of her own. Vial had four aces and a
team-best eight digs. Heffner and Barkdoll
notched three blocks each.
Against
Eastern Mennonite, Barkdoll paced a sweep (30-17, 30-19, 30-16)
with 14 kills. Cortese added 12
kills and eight digs while Barr and Rau had 10 kills each.
Smith chipped in 48 assists and added a team-high nine digs.
Barkdoll – with 79 kills in five matches – and Smith,
who had 196 assists and 37 digs, were named to the all-tournament
team.
Scranton defeated Richard Stockton to win the Blue Bracket championship,
and Salisbury defeated Washington
(Md.)
to win the Grey Bracket title.
Gettysburg returns to action in a dual match at home against York
(Pa.)
on Thursday. Match time is 7 p.m.
Saturday:
Gettysburg def. Willamette,
3-1 (26-30, 30-27, 31-29, 30-22)
Gettysburg Leaders:
Kills:
Erin Barkdoll 15, Jessica Cortese 14, Nicole Barr 10; Assists:
Shannan Smith 41; Service Aces: Smith 3; Digs: Vial 27,
Cortese 21, Barr 14, Margaret Hallahan 13, Smith 10; Blocks:
Katie Heffner 3, Erica Rau 3.
Gettysburg def. Moravian,
3-0 (30-9, 30-20, 30-28)
Gettysburg Leaders:
Kills:
Barkdoll 18, Rau 10, Cortese 8; Assists: Shannan Smith 23,
Hallahan 16; Service Aces: Cortese 6; Digs: Vial 14, Cortese
11; Blocks: Rau 6, Barkdoll 4.
Championship Match
Gettysburg def. Eastern,
3-2 (19-30, 30-23, 24-30, 30-26, 17-15)
Gettysburg Leaders:
Kills:
Cortese 16, Barr 14, Barkdoll 10, Heffner 10; Assists: Shannan
Smith 57; Service Aces: Cortese 3, Barr 3; Digs: Vial 28,
Barr 28, Cortese 24, Hallahan 14, Smith 10; Blocks: Rau
1, Barkdoll 1, Heffner 1.
Friday:
Gettysburg def. Gwynedd-Mercy,
3-0 (30-23, 30-21, 30-23)
Gettysburg Leaders:
Kills:
Barr 10, Cortese 8, Rau 8; Assists: Smith 23, Hallahan 14;
Service Aces: Vial 4, Smith 2, Cortese 2; Digs: Vial 8,
Cortese 6; Blocks: Heffner 3, Barkdoll 3.
Gettysburg def. Eastern
Mennonite, 3-0 (30-17, 30-19, 30-16)
Gettysburg Leaders:
Kills:
Barkdoll 14, Cortese 12, Barr 10, Rau 10; Assists: Smith
48; Service Aces: Rau 3, Smith 2, Cortese 2; Digs: Smith
9, Cortese 8; Blocks: Barr 2, Rau 2.
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