Women’s Volleyball Finishes 2-2 at Worthington Classic

Senior Rachael Perry and the Keuka College women's volleyball team swept a pair of matches Saturday to finish 2-2 and in fifth-place at the 5th annual Worthington Classic in Washington, DC.

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The Keuka College women’s volleyball team traveled to Washington, D.C. for the 5^th annual Gallaudet University Worthington Classic, and facing top-flight competition, the Storm emerged with a 2-2 overall record and a fifth-place finish for the two-day tournament.

Sophomore Paige Golden (Kent, NY/Albion) earned All-Tournament team honors after four solid performances. Golden, an outside hitter, recorded a pair of double-doubles during Saturday, with 16 digs and 14 kills during the sweep of Rowan, and adding a career-high 26 digs and 11 kills in the five-set win over Shenandoah University in the fifth-place match. Golden has now recorded double-figure dig totals in Keuka’s last 14 matches, and in 16 of Keuka’s 17 matches during the 2011 season.

A day after dropping its first two matches of the tournament, Keuka (11-6) rebounded nicely, ousting Rowan (NJ) University by a score of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-14. Golden led the Storm in kills (14) while hitting at a .464 percentage in the win over Rowan. Sophomore setter Jill Nolan (Johnson City, NY/Maine-Endwell) added a career-high 37 assists while senior Hannah Doody (Tully, NY/Tully) added 21 digs and freshman Devan Curtis (San Clemente, CA/San Clemente) added nine kills and five digs for the Storm.

Senior Rachael Perry (Nichols, NY/Tioga) added seven kills and six digs while junior Brittany Smyder (Avon, NY/Avon) also had seven kills for Keuka.

Against Shenandoah University, Keuka won the first set 25-21, dropped a close second set 25-23, won the third 25-21, fell 25-11 in the fourth before rallying for a 15-11 win in the decisive fifth set.

Smyder had a match-high 13 kills, Golden and Curtis each had 11 kills and sophomore Amie Pizura (Prattsburgh, NY/Hammondsport) added career-highs in assists (32) and digs (15) during the win over Shenandoah.

Keuka lost a pair of straight-set matches on Friday afternoon, falling to Virginia Wesleyan by scores of 25-16, 27-25 and 25-19, and also to Catholic University of America by scores of 25-12, 25-22 and 25-5.

Golden had a match-high 19 digs to go with 4 kills and 2 blocks while Perry added 12 digs and four kills and Smyder finished with 6 kills, 3 digs and 2.5 blocks for the Storm against Virginia Wesleyan. Against Catholic, Golden had 14 digs and a team-high nine kills, Curtis added seven kills and four digs, Perry had nine digs and two kills and Doody added a match-high 19 kills.

The Storm returns to action with a 7 p.m. non-conference clash Tuesday night with Alfred University.