Volleyball Opens Season with 3-0 Victory over Assumption
WORCESTER, MA – The Merrimack volleyball team kicked off
its season with a 3-0 non-conference victory over Assumption
College Thursday night.
Game scores were 25-19, 25-11, 25-14.
"It was a good effort for our first match of the season," said
head coach Joey Pacis, who notched his 106th career
victory, tops in program history. "We had a very balanced lineup
and attack and tried some different things. Once we got past some
of the early tentativeness, everything came together which enabled
us to run more offensive options."
Eight different Warriors registered a kill, led by eight from
Nicole Duarte
(Windham, NH). Heidi Wroblicky
(Irvine, CA) (13 digs) and Shaunda Forcier
(Gonic, NH) (10 digs) both were in double-figures in digs,
while Molly Cindric
(Westlake Village, CA) posted seven digs, five aces, and
four kills. Elyse Lorenz
(Frankfurt, IL) chipped in with 14 assists, four aces and
three digs. Jenna Reilly
(Northport, NY) finished with a match-high five solo
blocks and added four digs as Merrimack forced 25 Greyhound attack
errors in the victory.
Merrimack's best set was the second, where they committed just
one error and hit .360, compared to 10 errors and a -.088 attack
percentage for Assumption.
Merrimack (1-0) visits cross-town rival UMass Lowell on Saturday
for a 12 p.m. non-conference match.
