THE FACTS
Gettysburg (23-4) 3, Haverford (13-13)
What: Centennial Conference (CC) volleyball tournament first round
When: Wednesday, Nov. 13
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg rallied late in the third set to take a 2-1 lead in the match and carried that momentum into the forth set, defeating Haverford 3-1 in the opening round of the 2024 Centennial Conference volleyball championship tournament.
THE LEADERS
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Alycen Radolovic (Willoughby, Ohio/Beaumont School) led four Bullets with double-digit kills, knocking down 16 to go with seven digs.
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Catherine Holtz (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) added 12 kills and hit .440 on the night and chipped in five digs.
FOR THE FOES
• Gia Frank led the Fords with 17 kills and seven total blocks.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Haverford jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the opening set before kills from
Mary Huegel (Marlboro, N.J./Colts Neck) and
Alycen Radolovic knotted the set at 3-all. After the teams traded points,
Halle Feth (Castle Rock, Colo./Douglas County) sandwiched an ace between knockdowns from Radolovic and
Gianna Galli (Demarest, N.J./Northern Valley Demarest) to open up a 7-4 lead. Two
Erin Gonzalez (Cincinnati, Ohio/Ursuline Academy) kills around one from Huegel extended the advantage to 13-6 and Haverford got no closer than five for the rest of the set and Gettysburg took a 1-0 lead by a 25-17 margin.
• Behind a pair of kills from Izabela Potocnjak, the Fords jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second set. Frank extended the advantage to 10-3. Trailing 18-11, a Huegel-Gonzalez block out of a timeout turned the serve to Gonzalez, who served the Bullets to a 19-18 edge. Holtz had two kills during the comeback. After a serve just missed the back line to tie the set at 19-all, three straight Dasha Igonin aces reestablished a three-point Haverford lead and Kayla Chu put away the 25-21 win with an ace.
• The third set was back-and-forth, featuring seven ties and three lead changes. Gettysburg built a lead as large as 10-5 on a
Clare Farrell (Livingston, N.J./Academy of St. Elizabeth) solo block before the Fords countered with an 11-4 run to close the margin to 16-14 on a Potocnjak ace. Back-to-back Haverford blocks tied the set at 20-all. Back-to-back Frank kills gave the Fords set point at 24-21. Hugel, however, knocked down a kill and Gonzalez followed with an ace to close the margin to one and force a timeout. Radolovic put down her fifth kill of the set to draw the hosts even. After Potocnjak and Radolovic traded kills to keep the set even, back-to-back attack errors gave the Bullets the win, 27-25.
• Tied at 3-all in the fourth set, Radolovic once again found the hardwood for a 4-3, giving Gettysburg the lead for good. Farrell followed with a kill of her own. The Bullet lead swelled to 10-6 before the Fords reeled off three in a row to close back to within one. Hugel, however, had the response to start a 3-0 counter that extended the lead back out to four. Haverford twice closed to within one before Huegel returned an overpass to sender around two Farrell kills for a 22-18 lead. Gonzalez wrapped up the 25-20 win with a kill.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Erin Gonzalez and
Clare Farrell chipped in 10 kills each. Gonzalez also rounded the double-double with 13 digs.
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Kendall Erpenbeck (San Jose, Calif./Prospect) chipped in 28 assists, three assists and three digs while
Halle Feth had 22 assists, three aces and four digs.
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Mary Huegel and
Gianna Galli had four blocks each. Huegel also had eight kills and four digs while Galli had five kills.
• Gettysburg hit .228 in the match while holding Haverford to .150.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg advances to the semifinals on Friday at No. 3 and top-seeded Johns Hopkins. Match time is 7 p.m.
