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SCRANTON, Pa.-- Lackawanna College women's volleyball is back to action this coming weekend with a pair of home matches against PSAC East opponents, as both Lock Haven University and Bloomsburg University make their first trips to Scranton. The Bald Eagles from LHU are due to arrive for a Friday, October 16^th, match-up with the Falcons, starting at 6:00pm ET, while the Huskies arrive on Saturday, October 17^th, for a 1:00pm ET start. Both matches are taking place inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union gymnasium.
 
Game Details:  
Who: Lock Haven University Bald Eagles (13-5) at Lackawanna College Falcons (0-12) 
When: Friday, October 16^th, 6:00pm ET 
Where: LC Student Union Gymnasium, Lackawanna College; Scranton, PA
 
Who: Bloomsburg University Huskies (8-10) at Lackawanna College Falcons (0-12) 
When: Saturday, October 17^th, 1:00pm ET 
Where: LC Student Union Gymnasium, Lackawanna College; Scranton, PA
 
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Video: https://lackawannafalcons.com/LIVE
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Live Stats: https://lackawannafalcons.com/sidearmstats/wvball
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Tickets: https://lackawannafalcons.com/tickets
Lackawanna College is cashless for admission tickets to sporting events. Tickets can be purchased via card in advance at the link above or in-person at the doors of the venue.
 
The Falcons:  
Lackawanna College (0-12) was last in action this past weekend, playing away at Millersville on October 9^th and at West Chester on October 10^th. Lackawanna was swept in both matches, getting off to slow starts in each first set, playing a better second set, and then ultimately falling in three sets on both nights. You can read a full recap on the Millersville match HERE. You can read the full recap from the West Chester match HERE.
 
On the year, Lackawanna has struggled to get its offense going, hitting at -.005, with 238 kills and 243 errors. Opponents are hitting .265 against the Falcons, and the opposition has 114 aces this year, a three-aces-per-set average. Lackawanna averages just under a block per set on the year, while the opposition averages 1.4 blocks per set this season. The Falcons are under eleven digs per set, while the opposition is at 14.8 digs per set this season.
  
Hofmann, a junior outside hitter, leads the Falcons with 70 kills, 1.84 per set, on .050 hitting this year. Hofmann's 12 aces are tied for first on the team this season, and her 90 digs are tops on the squad. Jana achieved her season-best in kills in her last two matches, posting nine kills against both Millersville (10/9) and West Chester (10/10). In her last three matches, Hofmann has posted 25 kills on .187 hitting, while posting 30 digs in those three matches. Hofmann's best game came against Millersville, posting nine kills and 15 digs in the loss to the Marauders on October 9^th. She had just one kill in the loss to Lock Haven on September 19^th. She is a former NJCAA All-American, selected as a first-year player with the Falcons, and was a two-time Region XIX DII Player of the Year. 
 
First-year outside hitter Sophia Bedics (Bethlehem, PA) is second on the team with 44 kills in seven matches, a 1.91 per set average, while hitting .154, best on the team. Bedics has 29 digs this season and four total blocks. She had 12 kills, a season-best, on .256 hitting, and posted five digs in the loss to Kutztown (9/22). Bedics has six or more kills in four matches this season. She had three kills on negative hitting against West Chester on September 26^th. Sophia has not played since that match because of injury. She had two kills and five digs against Lock Haven on September 19^th.
 
Third-year outside hitter/middle blocker Nadia Toth (Dalton, PA) is third on the team with 33 kills in 12 matches, averaging just under a kill per set and hitting at .030. Nadia is tied for second on the team in total blocks (8.0) and has nine digs this season. Toth set a season-high with seven kills on .263 hitting against Monroe earlier this season. She had five kills on a season-best .455 hitting against Kutztown on September 22^nd. Toth had a combined three kills and one solo block in two games against Millersville and West Chester last weekend. Toth had one kill and a solo block against Lock Haven on September 19^th.
 
First-year setter Kady Schreiner (Mountaintop, PA) leads the Falcons with 68 assists in her seven appearances, starting in three matches. She averages just over three assists per set. She also has three aces on the year, and she has 15 digs. Schreiner had had four assist sin three sets and one kill against Lock Haven back on September 19^th. She had eleven assists and five digs against Millersville last Friday, but did not play against West Chester on Saturday.
 
Third-year libero Adalee Rosado Rivera (Guyama, Puerto Rico) is second on the team with 41 assists this season, and is tied with Hofmann for the team-high with 12 aces. Rosado Rivera has played in eleven matches and has 78 digs, second on the squad. Her best output was eleven assists in the loss to Notre Dame of Maryland on September 12^th. She has collected a season-high 13 digs in three separate matches against Monroe (9/1), Messiah (9/12), and Millersville (10/9). She did not play against Lock Haven earlier this season, and had a combined four assists and three aces against Millersville and West Chester last weekend, while posting a combined 20 digs.
  
Coach Shelby Reese is in her fifth season in charge of the program, and she's hoping to establish the baseline and foundation for her program as the transition to the NCAA and Division II really begins to take shape for the Falcons. Reese has won 45 matches in her four years with the Falcons, including 17 in 2024, and 14 matches and a Region XIX championship in 2023. Before her time at Lackawanna, Reese was the head coach at NCAA Division III Cedar Crest in Allentown, winning 86 matches and getting the Falcons to their first-ever NCAA tournament in 2021. Last year's Lackawanna squad began peaking at the right time, winning a flurry of matches in the final week of the season to enter the playoffs with some momentum and make the Region XIX championship game for the third year in a row, before falling to Monroe in straight sets. 
   
The Bald Eagles 
Lock Haven swept Lackawanna College in their first match-up this season back on September 19^th, sweeping the Falcons in what was the worst performance for Lackawanna this season. You can read the full recap HERE.
 
Lock Haven (13-5) comes into the weekend tied atop the PSAC East standings with Shepherd at 6-1 through the first seven league matches. The Bald Eagles have been rolling, winning five matches in a row and eight of their last nine, with the only blemish a 3-1 loss at Shepherd back on September 25^th. The Eagles had an impressive home weekend last week, taking down Shippensburg in four sets on Friday, before then sweeping East Stroudsburg the next day. Against Shippensburg, LHU hit .247 with 58 kills, while getting eleven aces. Shippensburg hit .206, but had 20 attack errors and seven service errors. On Saturday, LHU swept ESU in three sets, but things were tight, as Lock Haven had wins of 25-22, 25-22, and 25-23. The Eagles hit just .105 for the afternoon, while ESU hit .165, but Lock Haven had ten aces. ESU out-blocked the Eagles, 12-to-7, but committed nine service errors on the afternoon.
 
On the year, Lock Haven hits .176 as a team, with 828 kills, 12.4 per set, while their opponents hit .137 this season, averaging 9.7 per set. The Eagles have 145 aces, 2.2 per set this year, and their opponents have 104 aces, 1.6 per set. Lock Haven's opponents average over two blocks per set, nearly double what the Eagles do, defensively, but Lock Haven holds a 17.2 to 14.8 digs per set edge.
 
Sophomore outside hitter Maddie Mitchell leads the Bald Eagles with 180 kills this season, averaging 2.95 kills per set in her 17 matches played this year. Mitchell hits .147 and has 41 digs, with six total blocks this year. Mitchell posted a season-high 19 kills against Edinboro in the five-set win on September 12^th, and she has nine matches with ten or more kills on the year. Mitchell did not play against Lackawanna in the first match-up between the two sides. She had 17 kills on .175 hitting in the win against Shippensburg, but was held to .057 hitting and six kills in the sweep over ESU last weekend.


Senior outside hitter Reagan Irons is second on the team with 135 kills this year, averaging 2.11 kills per set and hitting at .119 this year. Irons has started in 17 matches this season for the Bald Eagles, and she has 14 aces on the year. She's third on the team with 148 digs on the year, and she has ten total blocks this season. She posted her season-best with 16 kills on .324 hitting against Edinboro (9/12), and followed that up with 15 kills and a season-high 16 digs against Jefferson (9/12). Irons has two double-doubles, and she's gone in double-digit digs in six matches this season, posting a season-high 16 digs twice, against Jefferson and Bloomsburg (9/18). She had four kills on .444 hitting in the win against Lackawanna on September 19^th. Last weekend, Irons had a combined 14 kills and 17 digs, posting six kills and eleven digs, along with three aces, in the win against Shippensburg on Friday. She posted eight kills and six digs in the sweep over ESU.

Junior opposite Gracelynn Wolzen is third on LHU this year with 131 kills, averaging 2.18 kills per set and hitting .111 this year, appearing in 60 sets and starting 17 matches. She's second on the team with 24 total blocks this year, and she has 32 digs this season. Wolzen has set her season-high in back-to-back matches against Edinboro (13 kills) and then Jefferson (15 kills) on September 12^th. Wolzen has gone for ten or more kills in five matches this year. She had four kills on .500 hitting in two sets against Lackawanna on 9/19, and she had a combined 16 kills in two matches last weekend, which includes ten kills on .571 hitting in the four-set win against Shippensburg last Friday.
 
Sophomore middle hitter Payton Stanton is the fourth Bald Eagle with over 100 kills this season, posting 111 so far this season in 16 matches. She's averaging just over two kills per set and is hitting .252 on the year. Stanton leads the Bald Eagles with 38 total blocks this season, including 18 solo stuffs, and she has seven digs this year. Stanton has really come on in her last four matches, posting multiple blocks in each match, including a season-best four solo stops and four block assists in a five-set win against West Chester (10/2), while also posting 13 kills. Stanton has three matches with double-digit kills, with a season-best 17 kills coming against Shippensburg back on September 26^th, hitting .393 in the four-set win for the Bald Eagles. Stanton had two assists and no kills in two sets against Lackawanna on September 19^th. She had a combined 14 kills and seven total blocks in the two games last weekend, including eight kills and four total blocks against Shippensburg last Friday.
 
First-year setter Natalie Gibson is the engine driving the Lock Haven offense, posting 633 assists, a 9.5 assists per set pace, while also garnering 35 kills and 29 aces on the year. She's second on the team in aces and in digs (171) on the year, trailing sophomore libero Oliva Taylor, who has 37 aces and 449 digs on the year. Gibson has 15 total blocks, fifth on the team. Gibson has one match with fewer than 20 assists, and that was the sweep for LHU over Lackawanna on September 19^th, where she had 19 assists. Gibson posted what was her season-high 50 assists in back-to-back matches against Edinboro and Jefferson on September 12^th, then posted her season-high for real against Bloomsburg on September 18^th, going with 56 assists and 16 digs in the five-set win for LHU at Bloom. Against Edinboro, she posted a season-best 20 digs, and the match was one of nine double-doubles for her on the year. Gibson had a combined 74 assists and 22 digs in the two matches last weekend. She had three kills, 44 assists, and 12 digs in the win against Shippensburg, then posted 30 more assists and ten digs in the sweep over East Stroudsburg.
 
The head coach for the Bald Eagles is Mike Kraft, now in his fourth year at LHU. Kraft has had an interesting tenure at Lock Haven since arriving in 2023. After his first year, where the Eagles won eleven matches, their most in five years, he was named PSAC East Coach of the Year, but he left the program to coach NCAA Division I men's volleyball in the spring at Penn State, assisting legendary coach Mark Pavlik to 23 wins, an EIVA championship, and a berth in the NCAA tournament. Kraft returned to the Bald Eagles in 2024, where he won six matches, then posted ten wins a year ago, which included six conference wins, their most since 2015, and a mark that has already been equaled this season. Before arriving at The Haven, Kraft was an assistant coach with Juniata in men's volleyball at the Division III level from 2013 to 2016, guiding Juniata to a national runner-up finish in 2014. He also coached girls volleyball at Tyron HS from 2014 through 2021, and he has been the head coach and technical director at the Horseshoe Volleyball Club in Tyron since 2013. Kraft also spent time coaching with Saint Francis when it was still a Division I institution. Kraft played his collegiate volleyball at Juniata, where he helped the Eagles to the 2009 national title.
 
The Huskies
Bloomsburg (8-10) comes into the weekend on a two-game skid and having lost seven of their last eight matches. Before playing Lackawanna College for their first-ever encounter on Saturday, October 17^th, the Huskies will host Shepherd first on Friday night. Bloomsburg has one win in PSAC East play and sits in second-to-last place in the standings, ahead of winless Millersville.
 
In their match-ups last weekend, the Huskies traded opponents with Lock Haven, playing East Stroudsburg on Friday night and Shippensburg on Saturday afternoon. ESU beat Bloom in five sets on Friday, while Shippensburg reverse-swept the Huskies in five sets on Saturday afternoon. Against ESU, Bloomsburg was slightly behind the Warriors in several categories, including attack percentage (.117 vs. .101), total kills (48 vs. 44), aces (12 vs. 11), and blocks (11 vs. 9). The Huskies dominated set four and led the fifth set 4-1 early, but ESU rattling off four-straight to take the lead, then used a pair of 3-0 runs to create some distance and eventually win at 15-11. Against Shippensburg, Bloom hit .266 through its first two sets to get ahead, but Shippensburg ran away in set three, closed well in set four, and scored five-straight points to come back from 11-8 down and eventually defeat the Huskies, 15-13.
 
Bloomsburg hits .181 this season, averaging 10.6 kills per set, while their opponents are hitting .194 on the year and averaging 11.1 kills a set. The Huskies have 1430 aces, averaging two per set, and their opponents have 155 aces this year, averaging a slightly-better 2.2 per set. The Huskies average 1.5 blocks per set on the season and post 13.3 digs per set. Their opponents, again, average slightly better, posting 1.6 blocks per set and 13.6 digs per set this season.
 
Junior outside hitter Katie Kuehl leads Bloomsburg with 200 kills on the season in 18 matches, averaging 2.82 kills per set and hitting at .228 for the season. Kuehl has three aces on the year, while also posting 65 digs and 26 total blocks, fourth on the team. Kuehl has gone for double-digit kills in eleven matches this year, including her last five. She posted a season-best 22 kills in a five-set reverse-sweep win against Millersville, hitting at .347 for the match and posting an ace and four digs. Kuehl had a combined 32 kills last weekend in losses to ESU and Shippensburg, going for 17 kills against the Warriors on Friday and 15 kills and eight digs against Shippensburg on Saturday. In her last five matches, Kuehl has 77 kills on .216 hitting for the Huskies.
 
First-year middle hitter Lena Jones is second on Bloom with 138 kills this season in 18 matches, averaging 1.94 kills per set and hitting at .154 for the year. Jones has 29 total blocks, third on the team, and has 29 digs this season. Jones has five matches with ten or more kills, posting a season-best 16 kills on .237 hitting in a loss to Kutztown on September 19^th. In the matches with ESU and Shippensburg last weekend, she had a combined 15 kills and three total blocks, which includes eleven kills and two total blocks against Shippensburg on Saturday.
 
First-year outside hitter Abigail Eagler is third on the team with 121 kills in 18 matches this season, a 1.73 kills per set average on .103 hitting this season. Eagler is the top server for the Huskies, posting 34 aces on the year. She's fourth on the team with 140 digs this season and has ten total blocks this year. She has seven matches with ten-or-more kills on the season, including a stretch where she had 61 kills in five-straight matches. Her best came in a win against Frostburg State (9/12) in four sets, going for 15 kills and tying a season-high with five aces, which she also did against Molloy (8/28) and Holy Family (9/4). Eagler has three double-doubles on the year, with her season-best 15 digs coming against Lock Haven (9/18). She has struggled on offense in her last six matches, posting just seven kills in that span and going her last four matches without a kill, despite playing every set. She had no kills in two matches against ESU and Shippensburg, but had 12 and 13 digs, respectively, in the two contests.
 
Sophomore outside hitter Sasha Moody is fourth on the squad with 110 kills in 17 matches, averaging 1.67 per set and hitting at .175 this season. Moody has eleven aces on the year, along with 114 digs (5^th on the team) and 12 total blocks. Moody has five matches with double-digit kills, and she has hit double-digits in her last four matches. Her season-high is 15 kills, which she has gotten twice against Millersville (10/3) and Shippensburg (10/10). In her last four matches, Moody has a combined 54 kills on .233 hitting. She set a season-high with 12 digs against Millersville on 10/3, and she had eleven kills against East Stroudsburg last Friday.
 
First-year setter Sara Kokolus leads the Huskies with 418 assists this season, averaging 5.89 per set in her 18 matches on the year. Kokolus has 26 aces, second on the squad, and her 147 digs are second on the team, a well. Kokulus has nine games with 20 or more assists, and she has been extra productive in her last three matches, posting a combined 134 helpers and 48 digs in the three contests. She set a season-high with 52 assists and 14 digs in the win against Millersville (10/3), then followed that up last weekend with 37 assists in the loss to ESU (10/9) and then 45 assists and a season-best 21 digs against Shippensburg (10/10).
 


The head coach for the Huskies is Lee Anderson, now in his third year at the helm for Bloomsburg. Anderson has won 27 games in his time with the Huskies, going 9-18 and 10-18 in his first two seasons. Anderson came to Bloomsburg ahead of the 2024 season after spending time at Lake Erie College, where he guided the Storm to eleven wins in three seasons while helping build the program back up, recruiting student-athletes and improving the team GPA up to 3.62 in his time. Before that, he spent three years as an assistant coach with Edinboro in the PSAC, helping the Fighting Scots to 52 wins in his time. For ten years before that, he was the coach at the University of Minnesota Crookston, winning 67 matches in the tough Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Anderson has been coaching in volleyball at the Division II level since 2003, when he started as an assistant with Ferris State.
  
Next 
Lackawanna College remains home for its next contest, when the Falcons are set to host Wilkes University on Wednesday, October 21^st, for a first-ever match-up. The match is set for a 6:00pm ET start inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union.