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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College volleyball team maintained its perfect season record this fall with a pair of impressive victories on the second day of its own Battlefield Classic inside Bream Gym. The Bullets opened the day by ending Salisbury University's 35-match regular-season winning streak with a 3-1 (25-17, 22-25, 25-12, 25-22) decision and closed with a 3-1 (25-18, 24-26, 25-21, 25-15) win over Carnegie Mellon University.

Gettysburg (6-0) kept its perfect record intact and is 6-0 for the first time at this stage in the season since 1991 when the team went on to win its first 19 matches. Senior Kristina Mercier (Baltimore, Md./Mount de Sales Academy) and junior Kate Yoder (Emmaus, Pa./Emmaus) each polished off impressive weekends by being named to the Battlefield Classic All-Tournament Team. Yoder averaged 2.53 kills per set and posted 11 total blocks over the tournament, while Mercier averaged 2.4 kills and 3.27 digs.

The Bullets began the day against arguably its toughest opponent of the year so far in Salisbury, which was coming off a 35-2 record and second-round NCAA Tournament appearance last season. The Sea Gulls hadn't lost in the regular season since a 3-0 setback at the hands of Juniata College to start 2008, but Gettysburg established its game-plan early on and after splitting the opening two matches, came out on fire in the third set with 13 kills and just one attack error in 27 attempts. The hosts rolled through the third set and pulled out the win in the fourth after a see-saw battle.

Yoder posted her first double-digit kill effort of the year with 11 putdowns on 23 attempts, adding one block solo and four block assists, Sophomore Virginia Hogan (Alpharetta, Ga./Chattahoochee) turned in her best hitting performance of the year with 10 kills in 18 attempts with just a pair of errors.

Senior Stephanie Rickabaugh (West Chester, Pa./Henderson) tallied nine kills and 15 digs and Mercier posted seven kills and 10 digs. Seniors Amanda Krampf (Gaithersburg, Md./Gaithersburg) and Kristin Kotewicz (Columbia, Md./River Hill) led the defensive effort with 16 kills apiece, the former adding a match-high 34 assists.

Gettysburg's second match pit it against always formidable Carnegie Mellon, under the direction of former Bullets alum and former head coach Kim Kelly '92. The Bullets had dropped each of the last five meetings with the Tartans, but Saturday turned into a different result as the home team bounced back from a razor-thin second-set loss to take sets three and four comfortably.

Yoder and Mercier turned in a dozen kills each against Carnegie Mellon with the latter adding 10 digs for her second double-double of the season. Junior transfer Nicole Burns (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro) turned in her best performance of the year with 10 kills and five total blocks.

Krampf dished out a season-high 42 assists and added four kills, two aces, eight digs, and a pair of blocks for the Bullets, while Kotewicz paced the defense with 15 digs.

Next up for the Bullets is a non-conference road match at York (Pa.) College on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m.