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Zoie Reid
Seth Carroll
0
Thiel THI 12-11,8-3 PAC
3
Winner Westminster (PA) WES 18-10,8-3 PAC
Thiel THI
12-11,8-3 PAC
0
Final
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Westminster (PA) WES
18-10,8-3 PAC
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Thiel THI 17 14 22 (0)
Westminster (PA) WES 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Westminster rolls to three-set quarterfinal win over Thiel

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.---The Westminster women's volleyball team cruised to a three-set Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship Tournament quarterfinal victory over Thiel Tuesday night at Ron Galbreath Court inside Buzz Ridl Gymnasium. 

The Titans won in straight sets, taking set one 25-17, set two 25-14 and set three 25-22. Westminster, the championship tournament's No. 4 seed, improved to 18-10 with the win. Thiel, the No. 5 seed, fell to 12-10. 

Senior Liv Trent (Pittsburgh, Pa., Brentwood) finished with nine kills and nine digs. Junior Dakota Hershberger (Belleville, Pa., Mifflin County) hit .421 with nine kills on 19 swings and added a solo block. Junior Morgan O'Brien (Pittsburgh, Pa., Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) totaled seven kills, 18 assists, 13 digs and a pair of service aces. Senior Anna-Kate Davis (Boonsboro, Md., Boonsboro) posted a 13-assist, 10-dig double-double. It was her ninth of the season. Junior Brooke Gecina (Aurora, Ohio, Aurora) finished with 16 digs and an ace. 

Megan Darno finished with six kills, five digs and two blocks for Thiel. Arin DeLattre recorded five total blocks, including two solo blocks, and added three kills and a service ace. Jordan Yoder collected 11 digs. Owen Hansen tallied eight assists and four digs.

Westminster created the first set separation with a 6-0 run that moved a 4-3 edge to a 10-3 lead, with O'Brien serving the final five points of that stretch and adding an ace. Thiel pulled to within four, 18-14, but the Titans maintained the lead and scored the final four points, finishing the set on another O'Brien service ace for a 25-17 win.

The Titans answered an early 4-3 deficit with seven-straight points to move in front 10-4 in the second set. Freshman Violet Seaman (Hartville, Ohio, Lake) started the push with a kill, and sophomore Kylie Anthony (Harrison City, Pa., Penn-Trafford) then served six consecutive points as Hershberger, Seaman and Trent added kills. The Titans remained ahead through the finish, closing the set 25-14 on a Thiel attack error blocked by freshman Stephanie Strenk (Avoca, Mich., Yale).

Gecina served the Titans through six-straight points in the third set, turning a 17-16 deficit into a 22-17 lead with help from a Seaman block and a kill from senior Zoie Reid (Salem, Ohio, Salem). Thiel got back within 24-22, but Hershberger put away a set from O'Brien to close the Titans' 25-22 set win.

Up next:
Westminster will travel to top-seeded Hiram for a semifinal match on Thursday. The Terriers picked up a four-set quarterfinal win (25-12, 25-19, 22-25, 25-23) over No. 8 W&J. 
 
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