Box Score

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Junior Stephanie Blair (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) put up 37 assists and 23 digs and became the seventh Bullet to reach 2,000 career assists in a 3-1 loss at Susquehanna University on Wednesday night.
 
Gettysburg (7-4) won the opening set 25-23, but Susquehanna (12-3) took the next three 25-18, 25-14 and 25-17.
 
The Bullets opened with the first four points and held the lead throughout set one. The River Hawks kept it close, narrowing a six-point gap down to a point several times before junior Maddie Weikert (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) put the set to rest with a kill.
 
Gettysburg held the lead just twice in the remaining three sets. Susquehanna used a 6-2 run to close out the second set and a 7-1 run to end the third. The Bullets pulled to 8-7 on an ace by freshman Francesca Garison (Metuchen, N.J./John F. Kennedy Memorial) in the fourth frame before the River Hawks rattled off five consecutive points on the way to the victory.
 
Blair recorded 30 assists and 20 digs for the sixth time in her career. She is the first Gettysburg setter to get to 2,000 career assists since Lizzy Kuhn '14 in 2013.
 
Senior Laura Bergin (Charlottesville, Va./Western Albemarle) recorded 14 kills and is now just 20 shy of 1,000 for her career. Freshman Kasey Higgins (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) tallied 10 kills, while Weikert and Garison each added eight kills. Weikert also put up a career-high 17 digs. Junior Katherine Gilbert (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame) tallied 17 digs.
 
Four players reached double-figure kills for Susquehanna with Erin Byrne leading the way with 20. Caroline Beohm put up 28 digs and Maggie O'Hearn dished out 52 assists.
 
Gettysburg returns home for a Centennial Conference match up with Washington College this Saturday at 1 p.m.