BALTIMORE –
Sydnee Peters had a career-high 15 kills, matching
Ava Nepkin for team-high honors, and the Loyola University Maryland volleyball team beat Lafayette College for the second time in eight days, completing a season sweep.
The Greyhounds won the final two sets after the Leopards earned a 29-27 victory in a protracted second set. Final scores in the match were 25-16, 27-29, 26-24, 25-21.
Peters had double-digit kills for the first time in her career, finishing with a .345 hitting percentage on 29 swings.
Nepkin and
Morgan Crawford combined for 27 kills–with Crawford adding 12 to Nepkin's 15–from the outside.
Elsie Afful and
Mariah Sanabia hit .481 with 15 kills and just three assists from the middle.
Gabi Verdicchio and
Madison Monahan combined for 55 assists with Verdicchio leading the Greyhounds with 32 to go with a team-high four aces.
Addie Huber tallied a team-best 19 digs.
In the fourth set, Lafayette took a 19-18 lead after a Noa Kamphuis kill, but Nepkin and Afful locked up a block, Kamphuis committed an attack error and
Addie Lowe had a kill for Loyola to put the Greyhounds in front, 21-19, forcing a Leopards timeout.
After the stoppage, Lowe had another of her eight kills, and then Sanabia and Lowe had a block to make it 23-19.
