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Violet Seaman
Seth Carroll
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Geneva GEN 7-18,0-10 PAC
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Winner Westminster (PA) WES 17-9,8-2 PAC
Geneva GEN
7-18,0-10 PAC
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Final
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Westminster (PA) WES
17-9,8-2 PAC
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Geneva GEN 12 25 16 9 (1)
Westminster (PA) WES 25 22 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Westminster wins in four against Geneva

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.---The Westminster women's volleyball team defeated visiting Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) rival Geneva 3-1 Wednesday night on Ron Galbreath Court inside Buzz Ridl Gymnasium.

The Titans won the first set 25-12 before dropping the second 25-22. Westminster rattled off 25-16 and 25-9 wins in the third and fourth sets. 

Westminster, winners of five straight, improved to 17-9 overall and 8-2 in the PAC. Geneva fell to 7-18 overall and 0-10 in the conference. 

Senior Liv Trent (Pittsburgh, Pa., Brentwood) hit .303 with 13 kills, 10 digs and three service aces for her 14th double-double this season. She has at least 13 kills in three consecutive matches. Senior Zoie Reid (Salem, Ohio, Salem) finished with 11 kills while junior Morgan O'Brien (Pittsburgh, Pa., Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) added seven kills, 14 assists, 15 digs, three total blocks and a pair of aces. 

Junior Brooke Gecina (Aurora, Ohio, Aurora) recorded a team-high 22 digs and added four assists. It was her 16th match this season with 20 or more digs. Senior Anna-Kate Davis (Boonsboro, Md., Boonsboro) finished with 23 assists, nine digs and five kills. She has recorded at least 23 assists in three-straight matches. Freshman Jenna Renner (Port Allegheny, Pa., Port Allegheny), making her first career start, had two kills, two digs and three total blocks. 

Daphne Alexander finished with a team-high nine kills, 10 digs and two total blocks for Geneva. Kyla Kephart had 16 assists, while Chloe Borisuk recorded 23 digs. 

The Titans answered Geneva's opening point with a 6-0 run in the first set, with Trent serving through an ace and kills by freshman Violet Seaman (Hartville, Ohio, Lake), Reid and O'Brien. The lead grew from 11-6 to 16-6 during sophomore Kylie Anthony's (Harrison City, Pa., Penn-Trafford) service turn, which included an Anthony ace and a Renner kill. The Titans closed out the set 25-12, with Renner and O'Brien each credited with a block in the final three points.

The Titans' biggest response in the second set came after trailing 15-10, as they won seven of the next eight rallies to move ahead 17-16. Davis, Reid and Seaman had kills in that stretch, Trent added a service ace, and Renner and O'Brien combined on a block that tied the set at 16-16. The score reached 21-21 before Geneva took four of the final five points to hand the Titans a 25-22 set loss.

In the third set, the Titans won 25-16, scoring the first three points and staying in front after O'Brien opened the set with a kill from Davis. Senior Maggie Shadle (Marion Center, Pa., Marion Center) helped create separation midway through the set, serving two aces during a four-point stretch that moved the Titans from 11-6 to 15-6. Junior Dakota Hershberger (Belleville, Pa., Mifflin County) finished the set with a kill from O'Brien.

A 2-2 tie early in the fourth set turned into a 9-2 Titans lead with seven straight points, with O'Brien serving for the final six and adding an ace during the stretch. Davis later served a five-point run that moved the Titans from 13-6 to 18-6, including a service ace and a point on Seaman's block. The Titans finished the set at 25-9 on a Davis kill from sophomore Kaiya Coleman (Campbell, Ohio, Memorial).

Up next:
Westminster will travel to Steubenville, Ohio, to take on Franciscan Saturday at 1 p.m. inside Finnegan Fieldhouse. 
 
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