GREENSBURG, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University volleyball team lost to Seton Hill University on the road in three sets Tuesday in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division competition.
 
Seton Hill (10-12, 3-8 PSAC West) earned the conference win over Slippery Rock (5-20, 1-10 PSAC West) with set scores of 25-15, 25-16, 25-23.
 
Five different players had at least four kills for The Rock Tuesday. After beginning the match as a libero, Kate Lachendro finished the night with a team-best seven kills to go with eight assists, five digs and two blocks.
 
Erica Selfridge added six kills and eight digs while the duo of Lauren Crytzer and Sydney Ryan had five kills apiece with Ryan also posting two blocks (one solo / one assisted) and an ace. Mary Berger chipped in four kills as well as three block assists.
 
Rounding out The Rock's top performers were Lauren Weber and Taylor Fellers. Weber made a team-high 17 digs while serving one ace while Fellers passed out 12 assists while making eight digs.  
 
Seton Hill got out to an early 10-5 lead on The Rock in the opening set. SRU mounted several rallies in the opening set and cut its deficit to as little as two points on two occasions, but couldn't quite completely overtake the Griffins as SHU pulled away down the stretch with a 7-1 run to take the set, 25-15.
 
Slippery Rock held and early 5-4 lead in the second set before the Griffins captured six consecutive points to pull ahead 10-5 and force a Rock timeout. SRU came out of the break strong, recording seven of the next nine points to cut SHU's lead down to just two points at 12-10. However, Seton Hill used a timeout of its own and came out of that break to rattle off five straight points to build a lead SRU never truly threatened en route to an eventual 25-16 win.
 
The third set was a back-and-forth game between two evenly-matched teams. With the set tied 10-10, Slippery Rock darted off on a 4-0 run only for Seton Hill to answer back with a 6-2 charge to force another tie at 16-16. From there, SHU took six of the following eight points to jump ahead, 22-18.
 
Not to be outdone, The Rock had one more run in them in the form of a 5-1 surge that brought the two teams even for an 11th time in the set at 23-23. However, Seton Hill closed out the set, and the match, with two straight points via a Bobbi Rempe kill and a Rock attack error to give the Griffins a narrow two-point match-deciding win.
 
For the match, the Griffins held advantages over The Rock in kills (34-30), attack percentage (.130-.056), aces (5-2) and blocks (8-6). Mara Yahner had 10 kills while Katie Koziarz had four blocks for SHU in the win.
 
Slippery Rock returns to competition 12 p.m. Saturday on the road at California University (Pa.).  
 
 


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