10/20/26

SCRANTON, Pa.-- Lackawanna College women's volleyball is still searching for that elusive first win, and the Falcons will look to end their skid when NCAA Division III Wilkes University comes to Scranton for a first-ever match-up between the two schools on Wednesday, October 21^st, at 6:00pm ET inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union gymnasium.
 
Game Details:  
Who: Wilkes University Colonels (13-12) at Lackawanna College Falcons (0-14) 
When: Wednesday, October 21^st, 6:00pm ET 
Where: LC Student Union Gymnasium, Lackawanna College; Scranton, PA
 
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Video: https://lackawannafalcons.com/LIVE
There will be a video livestream available on the Lackawanna College Athletics Network, as well as on the PSAC Sports Digital Network.
 
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 (0-14) was home for a pair of matches last weekend, falling in four sets to Lock Haven on Friday night (25-10, 25-18, 23-25, 25-17) and then dropping a three-set sweep on Saturday to Bloomsburg (25-19, 25-16, 25-20). Lackawanna had spells of solid play on both nights, but ultimately couldn't overcome its mistakes. You can read a full recap on the Lock Haven match HERE. You can read the full recap from the Bloomsburg match HERE.
 
On the year, Lackawanna has struggled to get its offense going, hitting at .010, with 296 kills and 283 errors. Opponents are hitting .48 against the Falcons, and the opposition has 135 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 just over eleven digs per set, while the opposition is at 14.9 digs per set this season.
  
Junior outside hitter Jana Hofmann (Colorado Springs, CO) leads the Falcons with 89 kills, 1.98 per set, on .082 hitting this year. Hofmann's 13 aces are first on the team this season, and her 101 digs are second on the squad. Jana achieved her season-best in kills against Lock Haven last Friday, posting ten kills on .158 attack percentage and posting five digs in the loss. In her last four matches, Hofmann has posted 37 kills on .213 hitting, her best stretch of the season. Hofmann had nine kills on .286 hitting and six digs against Bloomsburg on Saturday. She has gotten double-digit digs in three games this season, posting a season-best 15 digs and nine kills in the loss to Millersville (10/9). 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.
 
Second-year middle hitter Ciona Braziel (Fort Worth, TX) is tied for third on the team with 39 kills this season, averaging just over a kill per set this season and hitting an even .000 on the year. Braziel leads the Falcons with 14 total blocks, including eight solo stops. She posted a season-best eight kills on .313 hitting in a loss to West Chester at home on September 26^th. Braziel had six kills against Lock Haven on Friday, and posted four more kills and two solo blocks against Bloomsburg on Saturday afternoon.
 
Third-year outside hitter/middle blocker Nadia Toth (Dalton, PA) is tied with Braziel for third on the team with 39 kills in 14 matches, averaging just under a kill per set and hitting at .030. Nadia is second on the team in total blocks (12.0), including eight solo blocks. Nadia also has 15 digs this season. Toth set a season-high with seven kills on .263 hitting against Monroe (9/1). She had five kills on a season-best .455 hitting against Kutztown on September 22^nd. Toth had a season-high four solo blocks against Bloomsburg on Saturday afternoon. In two matches last weekend, she had a combined six kills and six digs.
 
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 left the game with injury and has missed the last three matches.
 
Second-year setter Kaitlyn Reed (Aurora, CO) is second on the tam with 65 assists this season in eleven matches. She has five aces and five kills on the year. Reed has 24 digs on the season for the Falcons. She had a season-high four kills against Lock Haven this past Friday. Her season-high 13 assists came against West Chester (10/10). She had a combined 17 assists and three service aces against LHU and Bloomsburg last weekend. Against Bloom, she had a kill, eight assists, a season-high seven digs, and three aces in the loss.
 
Third-year libero Adalee Rosado Rivera (Guyama, Puerto Rico) is fourth on the team with 46 assists this season, and is second with 12 aces. Rosado Rivera has played in 13 matches and has 108 digs, tops on the Falcons this season. Her best output was eleven assists in the loss to Notre Dame of Maryland on September 12^th. She had collected a season-high 13 digs in four separate matches against Monroe (9/1), Messiah (9/12), Millersville (10/9), and Lock Haven (10/16), before eclipsing that with 17 digs against Bloomsburg on Saturday. In her last four matches, she has 50 digs, averaging 3.8 per set.
  
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 Colonels 
Wilkes (13-12) enters the weekend on a four-game skid, dropping three-straight Landmark Conference contests and a non-conference match-up with Alvernia. This past Saturday, the Colonels played Elizabethtown and Alvernia in a tri-match at Elizabethtown, falling in straight sets to Elizabethtown and then in five to Alvernia. Against E'Town, Wilkes blew six set points in a wild 32-30 first set loss, then ran out of gas against the Blue Jays in the remaining sets. E'Town posted 13 blocks to control the net. In the second match, Alvernia reverse-swept the Colonels, winning the final three sets and overcoming three-straight match-points from Wilkes in the fifth set to pull it off. Wilkes hit just  
 
On the year, Wilkes hits .148 as a team, with 965 kills, 10.3 per set, while their opponents hit .170 this season, averaging eleven kills per set. The Colonels have 189 aces, two per set this year, and their opponents have 208 aces, 2.2 per set. Wilkes's opponents average 1.6 blocks per set, while the Colonels average 1.3 blocks per set. Wilkes averages 15.4 digs per set, while their opponents are 13.7 digs per set.
 
Sophomore opposite Mia Leon leads the Colonels with 360 kills this season, averaging 3.87 kills per set on .208 hitting in her 25 matches. Leon also leads the Colonels with 51 aces this season, and her 251 digs are third on the team. She is second on the Colonels with 46 total blocks, including ten solo blocks. Leon has 19 matches with ten or more kills, and six matches with 20+ kills this season. Her season-best came against PSU Abington on September 26^th, posting 29 kills on .450 hitting and four aces in a five-set win against the Lions. She had 25 kills on .296 hitting against Gwynedd Mercy on September 30^th. Against Elizabethtown last weekend, she had just two kills on -182 hitting, but still posting 16 digs. Against Alvernia a few hours later, she had 14 kills on .256 hitting and 16 digs. Leon has ten double-doubles this season, posting a season-high 20 digs, along with 15 kills, against FDU Florham on September 3^rd.


Sophomore outside hitter Abby Dornblaser is second on the team with 192 kills this year, averaging 2.13 kills per set and hitting at .100 this year. Dornblaser is second on the team with 34 aces in her 25 matches this season. She's fourth on the team in digs (228), averaging 2.53 per set, and she has 13 total blocks on the year. Dornblaser has eight matches with 10+ kills, posting a season-best 19 kills in four sets against Goucher (10/9), on .441 hitting, her best percentage of the season. Dornblaser has six double-doubles on the year, posting a season-best 21 digs and 14 kills against FDU-Florham (9/3). She had a combined 15 kills and ten digs in two matches against E'Town and Alvernia last Saturday.

Senior outside hitter Kendra Kalp is third on Wilkes this year with 178 kills, averaging 1.91 kills per set and hitting .092 this year, appearing in 93 sets and starting 25 matches. She's has 16 aces and leads the Colonels with 292 digs this season, averaging 3.14 per set, while also posting 14 total blocks this year. Kalp has six matches with 10+ kills, setting her season-high in the last match with Alvernia, going for 16 kills and 15 digs in the five-set loss. Kalp has 18 matches in double-digit digs, along with six double-doubles on the year. Her season-high in digs came against FDU-Florham on September 3^rd, posting 29 digs and nine kills in the five-set win. She had seven kills and eleven digs against Elizabethtown in the first match on Saturday.

Sophomore middle hitter Emilee Atherholt is fourth on the team at 103 kills (1.16 per set) on .156 hitting. Atherholt leas the Colonels in total blocks (57.0), including 22 solo stuffs, and she has 25 digs on the season. Atherholt has two matches with a season-high eight kills, vs. Randolph Machon (9/12) and Goucher (10/9). She has gotten to her season-best six total blocks twice, posting six blocks and five kills in a four-set loss to Marywood on September 17^th, and getting five kills and six blocks in the five-set win against PSU Abington on September 26^th. Last weekend, she posted a combined 12 kills and five blocks in the pair of matches with Elizabethtown and Alvernia on Saturday.
 
Setter is split between senior Rachael Anderson and senior Maddy Durfee. Anderson has 372 assists this season, averaging 3.96 per set, and has 22 aces on the year. Durfee has 371 assists this year, 3.99 per set, and she has more digs (123) than Anderson (87) this season. Anderson has 12 total blocks on the year. Anderson has 20 matches with ten or more assists, posting a season-best 28 digs in the win against Goucher on October 9^th. She had a combined 37 assists in two matches last weekend, including 22 against Alvernia, and she had ten combined digs in the pair of matches. Durfee, who played for Lackawanna College and won a Region XIX championship in 2023, posted a season-best 26 assists in a five-set loss to Drew on October 3^rd. That was part of a stretch where she had 86 assists in four matches, averaging 4.8 assists per set. She had a combined 31 assists and seven digs in the pair of matches on Saturday, including 21 assists in the loss to Alvernia.
 
The head coach for the Colonels is Zach Shay, a first-year mentor coaching both the men's and women's teams for Wilkes. Shay is a Wilkes graduate from 2024 and was an assistant with the men's program for two seasons before being named as the head coach for both sides in May 2026. He also coached at Endless Momentum VBC in Kingston and was an assistant at Crestwood HS in Mountaintop. Shay was a four-year captain with Wilkes, playing setter and holding program records in both single-season and career assists (2,442) and assists per set (7.68). Shay graduated with a bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management from Wilkes in September 2024.
  
Next 
Lackawanna College hits the road for four-straight road contests, starting with a pair of games this weekend. First, the Falcons will head to Shippensburg University on Friday, October 23^rd, for a 6:00pm ET start against the Raiders. Then, they'll take on Shepherd on Saturday, October 24^th, at 1:00pm ET in Shepherdstown, WV. It's a pair of rematches for the Falcons, who were defeated in straight-sets by both the Raiders and the Rams back on October 3^rd and 4^th earlier this season.