10/30/26
 
SCRANTON, Pa.-- Lackawanna College women's volleyball remains on the road in PSAC play this weekend, as the Falcons travel to take on Bloomsburg University on Friday, October 30^th, at 6:00pm ET inside the Nelson Field House, before going to battle with East Stroudsburg University on Saturday, October 31^st, at 4:00pm ET inside Koehler Fieldhouse in East Stroudsburg.
 
Game Details:  
Who: Lackawanna College Falcons (0-17) at Bloomsburg University Huskies (10-12) 
When: Friday, October 30^th, 6:00pm ET 
Where: Nelson Field House, Bloomsburg University; Bloomsburg, PA
 
Who: Lackawanna College Falcons (0-17) at East Stroudsburg University Warriors (15-8)
When: Saturday, October 31^st, 4:00pm ET
Where: Koehler Fieldhouse, East Stroudsburg University; East Stroudsburg, PA
 
Bloomsburg Links
Video: https://psacsportsdigitalnetwork.com/buhuskies/?B=4094755
Live Stats: https://buhuskies.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary
 
Shepherd Links
Video: https://esuwarriors.com/sports/2022/12/19/watch-the-warriors.aspx
Live Stats: https://esuwarriors.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary
 
This will be the second time for the Falcons against both Bloomsburg and East Stroudsburg. Lackawanna lost in straight-sets to Bloomsburg on October 17^th at home by scores of 25-19, 25-20, and 25-16. The first match with East Stroudsburg happened to also be the first-ever match with a PSAC squad for the Falcons. The Warriors swept the Falcons on September 15^th in Scranton, winning by scores of 25-15, 25-18, and 25-12. You can read the Bloomsburg recap HERE, and the ESU match recap HERE. 
 
The Falcons:  
Lackawanna College (0-17) struggled this past weekend in its road trip south to Shippensburg and Shepherd, with both the Raiders and the Rams making quick work of the Falcons in a pair of sweeps. You can read the full Shippensburg recap HERE, and the recap against Shepherd HERE.
 
On the year, Lackawanna is hitting at only .009, with 376 kills and 360 errors. Opponents are hitting .246 against the Falcons, and the opposition has 164 aces this year, a 2.9 aces per set average. The Falcons average just over an ace per set this year. Lackawanna is just below one block per set for the year, while the opposition averages 1.5 blocks per set. Their opponents have 15.2 digs per set, while the Falcons average 11.7 per set. 
  
Junior outside hitter Jana Hofmann (Colorado Springs, CO) leads the Falcons with 124 kills, 2.21 per set, on .091 hitting this year. Hofmann's 18 aces are first on the squad this season, and she has collected 123 digs, averaging 2.2 per set, which is second on the team for the year. Jana has been playing some of her best volleyball as of last week, setting a season-high with 22 kills on .219 hitting in five sets against Wilkes last Wednesday (10/21), while also posting her season-best 20 digs, and snagging a pair of aces. Hofmann has posted 72 kills in her last seven matches, hitting at .163 and averaging three kills per set. Jana posted a combined 13 kills last weekend, but was held to a negative hitting percentage (-.020) for the weekend. Against Bloomsburg, she had nine kills on a season-best .286 attack percentage on October 17^th. Against ESU, she had seven kills and seven digs in the loss on September 15^th. Jana 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.
 
Third-year outside hitter/middle blocker Nadia Toth (Dalton, PA) is second on the team with 52 kills, averaging a kill per set and hitting at .047. Nadia has a pair of aces on the year, and she's second in total blocks (12.0), posting eight solo blocks for the Falcons. Nadia also has 27 digs this season. Toth set season-highs in kills (8) and digs (11) against Wilkes last week (10/21), hitting at .147 for the match against the Colonels. Toth had combined five kills and an assist in the two matches last weekend. She had just one kill against ESU back on September 15^th, and she posted two kills and a season-high four solo blocks against Bloomsburg two weeks ago.
 
First-year outside hitter Sophia Bedics (Bethlehem, PA) is third 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, and missed the two matches against Shippensburg and Shepherd. Sophia missed both the East Stroudsburg contest in September and the Bloomsburg contest in October.
 
Second-year middle hitter Ciona Braziel (Fort Worth, TX) is fourth on the team with 43 kills this season, averaging a kill per set this season and hitting a -.060 on the year. Braziel leads the Falcons with 16 total blocks, including ten 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 October 16^th. She had two kills in the pair of games last weekend, posting an ace for the Falcons. Ciona did not play in the game against East Stroudsburg in September, but had four kills and a pair of blocks against Bloomsburg on October 17^th.
 
Sophomore setter Kaitlyn Reed (Aurora, CO) has a team-best 105 assists this year, averaging 2.5 assists per set, and posting eight kills and nine aces on the year. Reed also has 36 digs this season. She also set a season-high in assists (18) and another in aces (4) in the loss to Wilkes last week. Reed had a season-best four kills in the loss to Lock Haven (10/16). She had a kill in each game last weekend, and she had 12 assists against Shippensburg and ten assists against Shepherd. Reed has had double-digit assists in her last three matches. She did not play in the match against East Stroudsburg in September, and she had eight assists and seven digs in the loss to Bloomsburg earlier this month.
 
Third-year libero Adalee Rosado Rivera (Guyama, Puerto Rico) leads the team with 154 digs, a 2.91 digs per set clip, and she is second on the team with 14 aces on the year. Rosado Rivera has posted ten or more digs this season in seven matches. She has amassed 54 assists on the season, just over one assist per set, and she has five kills this year. Rosado Rivera set her season-high with 23 digs against Wilkes last week, posting six assists and one kill, as well. In her last seven matches, Rosado Rivera has 96 digs, four per set. She had a kill and seven assists against ESU in September, and she posted 17 digs and three assists against Bloomsburg earlier this month. She had 15 digs and two aces against Shippensburg last Friday.
 
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.
 
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.
   
The Huskies
Bloomsburg (10-12) has only played twice since playing the Falcons back on October 7^th, splitting matches with ESU (3-1 loss on 10/20) and West Chester (3-1 win on 10/23). The Huskies were excellent against the Golden Rams last Friday, winning in four sets (25-21, 16-25, 25-23, 25-19) and attacking at a .132 clip, while posting ten blocks. The Rams had more errors in attack (29) and had ten service errors.
 
As it stands in the PSAC East right now, Bloomsburg has missed the PSAC playoffs, with the only seed yet to be decided coming out of the west division. Bloomsburg is 2-9 in PSAC play, a half-game ahead of West Chester (2-8) and 2.5 games ahead of winless Millersville (0-12). The Huskies have to play Lock Haven after playing Lackawanna this weekend.
 
Bloomsburg hits .181 this season, averaging 10.6 kills per set, while their opponents are hitting .170 on the year and averaging 10.5 kills a set. The Huskies have 174 aces, averaging two per set, and their opponents have 190 aces this year, averaging a 2.2 per set. The Huskies average 1.6 blocks per set for the season and post 13.5 digs per set. Their opponents are averaging just a bit better, posting 1.7 blocks per set and 13.9 digs per set this season. 
 
Junior outside hitter Katie Kuehl leads Bloomsburg with 239 kills on the season in 22 matches, averaging 2.81 kills per set and hitting at .193 for the season. Kuehl has nine aces on the year, while also posting 78 digs and 29 total blocks, fourth on the team. Kuehl has gone for double-digit kills in 13 matches this year, and she posted a season-best 22 kills in a five-set reverse-sweep win against Millersville (10/3), hitting at .347 for the match and posting an ace and four digs. Kuehl has a combined 39 kills in her last four matches, hitting at .067 and averaging 2.78 kill per set. She posted 13 kills, three aces, and five digs against ESU (10/20), while she also recorded 10 kills, and four digs in the win against West Chester (10/23). Kuehl had nine kills and two aces in the first match with Lackawanna College earlier this month.
 
First-year middle hitter Lena Jones is second on Bloom with 166 kills this season in 22 matches, averaging 1.98 kills per set and hitting at .154 for the year. Jones has 32 total blocks, third on the team, and has 38 digs this season. Jones has six 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 (9/25) and Shippensburg (9/26), she had a combined 15 kills and three total blocks, which includes eleven kills and two total blocks against Shippensburg. Jones posted 12 kills, 5 digs, and a solo block against ESU on October 20^th, and followed that with five kills against West Chester on October 23^rd. Against Lackawanna, she had five kills in two sets in the win earlier this month.
 
Sophomore outside hitter Sasha Moody is third on the team with 147 kills in 21 matches, averaging 1.84 per set and hitting at .178 this season. Moody has 13 aces on the year, along with 138 digs (5^th on the team) and 17 total blocks. Moody has seven matches with double-digit kills, her season-high is 15 kills, which she posted twice against Millersville (10/3) and Shippensburg (10/10). In her last four matches, Moody has a combined 37 kills on .160 hitting. She set a season-high with 12 digs against Millersville on October 3^rd, and she had eleven kills against East Stroudsburg on October 9^th. Moody posted ten kills and two digs against West Chester (10/23). She had 13 kills on .286 hitting against Lackawanna College earlier this month, while also posting ten digs. 
 
First-year outside hitter Abigail Eagler is fourth on the team with 122 kills in 21 matches this season, a 1.54 kills per set average on .105 hitting this season. Eagler is the top server for the Huskies, posting 38 aces on the year. She's fourth on the team with 153 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). Eagler had four aces and seven digs against West Chester (10/23), but did not post any kills. She had a kill against ESU on October 20^th, her first five matches. She did not play against Lackawanna College on October 17^th.
 
First-year setter Sara Kokolus leads the Huskies with 525 assists this season, averaging 6.18 per set in her 22 matches on the year. Kokolus has 32 aces, second on the squad, and her 180 digs are second on the team, as well. Kokulus has 13 games with 20 or more assists, and she has been productive in her last four matches, posting a combined 107 helpers and 33 digs. She set a season-high with 52 assists and 14 digs in the win against Millersville (10/3), then followed that up with 37 assists in the loss to ESU (10/9) and then 45 assists and a season-best 21 digs against Shippensburg (10/10). Kokolus posted 38 assists and 13 digs against ESU (10/20) and 28 assists against West Chester (10/23) in the win. Kokulus had 20 assists and eight digs in the win against Lackawanna College earlier this month.
 
The head coach for the Huskies is Lee Anderson, now in his third year at the helm for Bloomsburg. Anderson has won 29 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. 
 
The Warriors
Before hosting the Falcons on Saturday, East Stroudsburg (15-8) will play against Kutztown on the road on Friday night.
 
Entering the weekend, ESU is a half-game ahead of the Golden Bears, with the Warriors sitting in second place at 8-3, and Kutztown in fourth place, also at 8-3. ESU swept Kutztown earlier this season, 3-0, back in September. The Warriors also have a win over third-place Shepherd (8-2), but still have to play the Rams again this season. East Stroudsburg is by no means locked into the second spot, and can move up if Lock Haven stumbles, as the Bald Eagles (9-2) are in first place by a full game. However, LHU holds the tiebreaker, winning both games against ESU this season.
 
The Warriors are 4-2 since October 9^th, but their two losses have both been to Lock Haven. In their last game, the Warriors fell to the Bald Eagles in a wild five-set contest at ESU last Saturday. Lock Haven led through three sets, but ESU won set four 25-19 to force a fifth stanza. LHU hit .286 in the final frame, while ESU had four errors and hit barely over zero (.04). Stroudsburg was within 8-5 in the fifth, but a service error, followed by a kill, pushed the LHU lead to 10-5, and the Bald Eagles scored five of the final seven points to pull away for the win.
 
East Stroudsburg is hitting .213 this season and averages 12.1 kills per set, while their opponents are hitting .157 and average 10.7 kills per set. The Warriors average just over two aces per set, and they are at 2.2 blocks per set, while their opponents block just under two per set. The Warriors have posted 14.1 digs per set this year, while the opposition averages slightly lower at 13.6. 
 
Junior outside hitter Jadyn Orava leads the Warriors with 339 kills in 22 matches, averaging 4.29 kills per set on .256 hitting this year. Orava is also leading the team with 36 aces this season, and she's second on the team with 201 digs (2.54 per set) and has 20 blocks, including 16 block assists. Orava has gone over ten kills in 19 matches this season, five times going for 20+ kills. Orava had 20 kills and 16 digs, a season-high for digs, in five sets against Bowie State to open the year. Orava has posted 49 kills and 29 digs combined in her last three matches against Millersville (10/17), Bloomsburg (10/20), and Lock Haven (10/24). She finished with 19 kills on .244 attack and nine digs in the loss to LHU. She had just one kill in limited time against the Falcons back in September.
 
First-year right-side hitter Ryle Ruggiero is second on the team with 167 kills, just over two per set, and she's hitting .247 this season. Ruggiero is second on the team with 73 total blocks, including 66 block assists this season. Ruggiero set her season-best in kills with 17 against Bloomsburg on October 20^th, hitting at .417 for the match. Ruggiero has gone for double-digits in kills in six matches, including her last two. She had ten kills and five blocks in the loss to Lock Haven last Saturday, and she had three kills in two sets against the Falcons last month.
 
Junior outside hitter Kelly Crites is third on the team with 166 total kills in 22 matches, averaging 2.21 kills per set on .155 hitting for the Warriors this season. Crites is also third with 169 digs, averaging 2.25 per set, and has ten block assists this year. Crites has gone for ten or more kills in eight matches this season, posting a season-high 19 kills in the loss to Lock Haven last weekend, hitting .280 and posting 15 digs. She had a season-high 19 digs and seven kills in a win against Kutztown on September 18^th. She had nine kills on .438 hitting in just one set against the Falcons on September 15^th.
 
Senior setter/opposite hitter Kyra Bishop leads the Warriors with 532 assists this year, averaging 9.17 helpers per set, and she is fourth on the team with 146 digs. Bishop also has 24 blocks and 21 block assists in her 18 matches. She has posted 20 or more assists in 14 matches, and she posted a season-high 48 assists against Lock haven last Saturday, while also putting up 15 digs. Bishop has gone for 20+ assists in her last eleven matches. She had 14 assists in one set against Lackawanna back in September. 
 
The head coach for the Warriors is John Forman, in his first season in charge. Forman brings nearly 30 years of coaching experience to the Warriors, having coached at various levels of the NCAA system, as well as coaching overseas in professional leagues and in collegiate leagues. Before coming to ESU, Forman was the indoor performance director for Volleyball England, helping to support the national junior and senior teams, while budgeting, managing camp and competition calendars, and cultivating relationships with coaches, team managers, and partners. Before that, he spent time at Radford University, Medaille College, Midwestern State University, the University of Exeter in England, Dean College, University of Rhode Island, and Brown University. Forman is a Rhode Island graduate, earning his bachelor's degree in business administration. He picked up a master's in business administration from the University of Maryland at College Park, and then a Ph.D. in Behavioral Finance from the University of Exeter. 
  
Next 
Next up, the Lackawanna women's volleyball will return home next weekend for its final two games of the regular season, as the Falcons are set to host Kutztown University on Friday, November 6^th, at 6:00pm ET inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union gymnasium. Then, on Saturday, November 7^th, the Falcons will play host to Millersville University in the season finale. The match is set for a 1:00pm ET start inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union gymnasium.