Brandywine Knocks Off Hazleton In Final Regular Season Match
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | T | |
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Penn State Brandywine (19-7,14-2) | 25 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
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Penn State Hazleton (1-19,1-15) | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 |
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania – Penn State Brandywine closed out the regular season by winning its season-high, 10th-straight match, sweeping Penn State Hazleton 3-0 (25-6, 25-11, 25-5) in PSUAC volleyball action on Sunday afternoon.
With the victory, the Lions (19-7, 14-2) secured the No. 2 seed in this week's PSUAC Tournament and will host No. 7 Penn State York in the quarterfinal round on Wednesday night at 7:00 pm. Brandywine, which advanced to the PSUAC championship match last season, earned the No. 2 seed for the second consecutive year.
Junior Miranda Biondi (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) posted 12 assists and nine aces, while freshman Nicole Poissant (Aston, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara) added a team-best seven kills along with seven assists and six aces.
Junior Kelsi Wiest (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley) totaled five aces, three kills and three digs and classmate Nicole Costa (Landsdowne, Pa./Upper Darby) tallied five kills and three blocks. Defensively, junior Kimberly Russo (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) posted a team-high four digs.
Hazleton received three digs, two assists and two kills from Miranda Dunne.
