NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The Grove City College volleyball team capped its 2022 non-conference schedule Thursday night by earning a 25-6, 25-12, 25-12 road victory over longtime rival Westminster at Memorial Field House.
Grove City closed the first set on a 17-2 run, then overcame an early 4-1 deficit in the second set. Grove City (9-7) never trailed in the final set.
Senior
Faith Keating (Troy, Mich./Troy) led Grove City with 10 kills while freshman
Bella Costa (Newbury, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) recorded seven kills. Juniors
Eloise Augustine (West Chester, Ohio/Mars Hill) and
Anna DeGraaf (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) both added five kills.
Sophomore setter
Kennedy Kerr (East Grand Rapids, Mich./East Grand Rapids) and freshman setter
Brooklyn Wirebaugh (Medina, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) each had nine assists. Costa, Kerr and Wirebaugh all served three aces.
Junior libero Gabby Lucas (Butler, Pa./Butler) paced the defense with 14 digs. Keating and Wirebaugh both had nine digs. DeGraaf and sophomore
Audrey Donnelly (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/Woodridge) both had two blocks. Grove City's defense limited Westminster to a -.046 hitting percentage for the match.
The 30 points yielded by Grove City marks the lowest total by an opponent since October 16, 2008, when the Wolverines earned a 25-6, 25-10, 25-14 home win over Chatham.
Although both Grove City and Westminster are members of the Presidents' Athletic Conference, Thursday's match does not count towards the conference standings. Grove City's 10-match, single round-robin conference schedule begins Saturday morning at Geneva. The match will begin at 11 a.m.