The College of St. Elizabeth entered Saturday's tri-match versus The King's College with aspirations to continue the best start in program history and improve to 5W-2L. The Lady Lions, however, had other plans.
The Eagles jumped out to an early 4-1 lead behind 2 aces by Amy Cooper but the Lady Lions clawed back to tie the Eagles at 7 thanks to key hitting and serving errors by CSE. With the score knotted at 10-10, the Eagles went on a 5-0 run fueled by Misato Oya's serving which yielded 1 ace and led to easy attack opportunities by Katie Cooper who put away 2 kills in the run.
But the Lady Lions came off a timeout and proceeded to go on a 15-5 run that sealed the Eagles fate in the set. The stunning turnaround was due in large part to 13 Eagle errors in that run.
The second set saw a much more precise Eagle team take the floor. Amy Cooper ran a much more balanced offense that saw 5 different players get kills and the team went 24/25 from the serving line which made the difference in a 25-11 dominant set victory.
In set 3, the Eagles again were nearly perfect from the service line (23/24) but had the best hitting percentage of the year in a set (.406) as Kareemah Muhammad, Katie Cooper and Subhana Wrights pounded out 16 kills (3 errors) to pull away late and take the set 25-15.
CSE couldn't maintain that torrid offensive pace in set 4 but once again the serving game was the key as the team went a perfect 25/25 from the service line. Subhana Wrights paced the team's offense with a dominant .400 hitting efficiency as she collected a team leading 5 kills and added a block to pace the team to victory in a 25-18 win.
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