BALTIMORE -- The UMBC Volleyball team cruised to its ninth straight victory with a Senior Day sweep of UAlbany (25-14, 25-13, 25-12) on Sunday afternoon at The Peake.
UMBC (13-5, 7-0 AE) hit .362 in the match, while holding UAlbany to .031 hitting. The Dawgs also limited America East kills leader Pinar Erol to just four kills on .000 hitting.Â
Natalie Harris led the Retrievers on offense with 19 kills on .368 hitting, and
Claudia Llamas added 11 kills with no errors on .550 hitting.
Hannah Dobbs had nine kills, 13 digs, two blocks and two assists, and
Grace Larrivee tallied three kills and four blocks.
Isabel Ostvig filled the stat sheet with 36 assists, six blocks, two digs and a kill, while
Jalynn Brown added four blocks and a kill of her own.Â
Hannah Howard collected 19 digs and three assists, and
Ema Djordjevic came off the bench to collect five aces and four digs. Senior
Jada James retuned from an injury suffered last October, and in her first action in nearly 13 month she had a dig and picked up the match-winning ace. Senior
Molly Penn also contributed with three digs.
UMBC travels to New Hampshire for a critical America East matchup on Friday night at 7 p.m.
