BALTIMORE – Loyola University Maryland hit .326 to win the opening set, but Colgate University rallied thereafter to win in four, 20-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19, Friday night Patriot League action in Reitz Arena.
 
Katie Forsythe fell one dig short of her third career 40-dig outing, but she still finished with a season-high 39, while Ann Ernst tallied 23 kills for an even 50 in two matches this week.

Forsythe's 39 digs are the most by a Patriot League player, and they are tied for 10th most by an NCAA Division I player this year. She now has 532 digs this season through 23 matches, good for eighth in Patriot League single-season history; Forsythe set the conference record with 697 last year as a freshman.

With five more kills, Ernst will move into a tie for 10^th in career kills in the Patriot League with 1,458; she is currently fourth in school history.
 
Ernst finished the first set with eight kills on 10 swings without an error, while Forsythe had 11 of her digs in that frame as the Greyhounds (10-13 overall, 3-6 Patriot League) overcame an early 12-10 deficit to go up 19-14 on a Molly Jarvis kill.
 
Moments later, Ernst had a kill to make it 22-16, and while Colgate (16-5, 9-0) got within four, 24-20 on an Alli Lowe kill, Abby Hamilton closed it for the Greyhounds with one of her own to put Loyola up a set.
 
The Greyhounds scored five of the first six points in the second set, forcing a Raiders timeout. Colgate came out of the break and quickly tied it at 8-8, taking a lead at 10-9 for the first time in the second.
 
Loyola would get back to even at 10-10 on an Ernst kill, but the Raiders scored four in a row and Loyola got back to within one just twice more in the second.
 
Ernst had a kill to put Loyola in front, 19-18, in the third, and Megan Bukala sided out with a kill for the Greyhounds at 20-19, but four in a row by the Raiders swung the momentum back in their favor to take a 2-1 lead in the match.
 
Loyola again led in the early-going of the fourth, taking an 11-10 advantage on an Ernst kill, but Colgate tallied 11 of the next 14 points for a 21-14 lead that it would hold onto for the remainder of the match.
 
Hamilton added 12 kills for Loyola, while Jarvis had nine and Bukala added eight. Ernst, who had a career-high 27 kills earlier this week at American University, had a double-double with 18 digs, while Hamilton had the same with 13.
 
The Greyhounds continue Patriot League play on Saturday, October 26, when they host College of the Holy Cross at Johns Hopkins' Goldfarb Gym in a 3 p.m. start.