Box Score 10/4/22          
 
SCRANTON, Pa. – Despite a game effort from the Lackawanna College Falcons, the Montgomery County CC Mustangs withstood the charge and swept their way to a 3-0 (25-18, 25-14, 25-18) victory on Tuesday evening at the Lackawanna Student Union.
 
The Falcons fought hard in set one, taking a 14-11 lead after back-to-back kills from Hunter Heeman (New Milford, PA), forcing a timeout from the Mustangs. Montgomery (5-5) would go on a 7-1 run out of that stoppage to take the lead, and then extended it out to a 21-16 advantage, before closing things out at 24-18.
 
In set two, the Falcons fought hard to make it 11-all after back-to-back service aces from Brittney Shaffer (Gratz, PA), but the Mustangs once again used a timeout to their advantage, going on an impressive 14-3 run to close out the set in style.
 
Montgomery led the third set 10-3 at one point, before Lackawanna College began its comeback, using a five-point run to cut it to 10-8, and then staying close at 12-10. Montgomery would hit another crucial run, scoring the next five points to lengthen the lead back out to seven, a gap the Falcons would not be able to close before falling 25-18.
 
Heeman (New Milford, PA) led the way with nine kills for the Falcons (2-7), while Delaney Hollenbeck (Kingsley, PA) supplied five kills and 14 assists. Makayla Jones (Weatherford, TX) added three kills and 17 digs.
 
The Falcons get back to action on Thursday, October 6^th, when they travel to Bethlehem, PA for a match-up with Northampton CC. That match is scheduled for a 6:00pm ET start in the Arthur L. Scott Spartan Center on campus at Northampton. The Spartans defeated the Falcons in their previous match-up back on September 17^th in the Lackawanna Student Union in a 3-0 sweep.