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Women's Volleyball 2026
Seth Carroll
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Westminster (PA) WES 17-10,8-3 PAC
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Winner Franciscan FRN 15-10,8-3 PAC
Westminster (PA) WES
17-10,8-3 PAC
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Final
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Franciscan FRN
15-10,8-3 PAC
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Westminster (PA) WES 25 25 18 15 13 (2)
Franciscan FRN 17 19 25 25 15 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Westminster falls at Franciscan

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio---The Westminster women's volleyball team dropped a 3-2 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) decision at Franciscan Saturday afternoon inside Finnegan Fieldhouse. 

Westminster fell to 17-10 overall and 8-3 in the PAC. Franciscan improved to 15-10 overall and 8-3 in league play.

Westminster jumped out to a 2-0 lead with 25-17 and 25-19 wins in the first and second sets. Franciscan pulled even with a 25-18 win in the third and 25-15 win in the fourth before taking the fifth set 15-13. 

In the opening set, Westminster broke a 14-14 tie with seven-straight points, moving ahead 21-14 behind junior Brooke Gecina's (Aurora, Ohio, Aurora) serving run, two junior Morgan O'Brien (Pittsburgh, Pa., Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) blocks and kills from freshman Suzie Bishop (Ellwood City, Pa., Riverside), senior Zoie Reid (Salem, Ohio, Salem) and O'Brien. After Franciscan scored three straight to make it 21-17, the Titans answered with the final four points, capped by Reid's kill, to take the set 25-17.

Westminster broke open the second set with a six-point run that turned a 4-3 edge into a 10-3 lead, with O'Brien contributing a kill and two service aces and Reid adding two kills during the stretch. Franciscan later cut into the margin with five-straight points, but the Titans answered enough down the stretch and closed the set on senior Liv Trent's (Pittsburgh, Pa., Brentwood) kill for a 25-19 win.

The Titans fell behind early in the third set and spent the rest of the set working from a deficit. The Titans put together a three-point stretch on senior Maggie's Shadle's (Marion Center, Pa., Marion Center) serve to get to 18-14, capped by freshman Violet Seaman's (Hartville, Ohio, Lake) block, but Franciscan kept the margin intact. O'Brien added three kills for the Titans, which dropped the set 25-18.

Westminster faced an immediate 8-0 deficit after Franciscan scored the first eight points of the fourth set. Reid recorded five kills and Trent added four as the Titans tried to answer, but Franciscan finished the set at 25-15.

Westminster built an early 7-4 lead in the fifth set, with O'Brien and Reid supplying multiple kills before junior Dakota Hershberger's (Belleville, Pa., Mifflin County) kill gave the Titans that three-point edge. Franciscan pulled even at 8-8 and later went ahead, but the Titans answered repeatedly with kills by O'Brien and Reid that tied the set at 11-11 and 12-12. Reid added another kill to bring the Titans within 14-13, but Franciscan took the final point to finish the set 15-13.

Reid tied her career high with 23 kills while hitting .310. O'Brien recorded her ninth triple-double this season with 13 kills, 19 assists and 15 digs and added two aces and two solo blocks. Trent registered her 15th double-double of the season with 13 kills and 15 digs. Senior Anna-Kate Davis (Boonsboro, Md., Boonsboro) finished with a team-high 27 assists and added 15 digs for her eighth double-double of the year. Gecina collected a team-best 17 digs.

Up next:
Westminster will enter next week's PAC Championship Tournament as either the No. 3 or No. 4 seed, depending on the result of tonight's match between Grove City and Chatham. The quarterfinal round is scheduled for Tuesday evening. 
 
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