Lackawanna College

11/7/26
 
SCRANTON, Pa. – Lackawanna College women's volleyball was held to a negative hitting percentage for the match, as Millersville took the season finale in three sets (25-13, 25-17, 25-10) on Saturday afternoon inside the historic Lackawanna College Student Union gymnasium.
 
The Falcons (0-21) were negative in two of three sets and overall for the match (-.046), while the Marauders (9-19) hit .220, while also putting up more aces (10-6) and blocks (5-3) against the Falcons. Sophia Bedics (Bethlehem, PA) had four kills and two aces, while Jana Hofmann (Colorado Springs, CO) posted four kills, two aces, and eleven digs. Angelique Fuentes (Miami, FL) had three kills, as did Nadia Toth (Dalton, PA), and Aryanna Brown (Chester, NY). Syriana Smith (Houston, TX) had seven assists, while Kaitlyn Reed (Aurora, CO) had six helpers and an ace. Adalee Rosado Rivera (Guyama, Puerto Rico) had a team-high 20 digs.
 
Millersville built a 9-1 lead early in the first set, but the Falcons rallied to get within 12-9, using a pair of three-point runs. The set went to 13-10 before the Marauders took five of the next six points to go up 18-11. The lead expanded out to 21-13, and then Millersville closed with four-straight to win the first set at 25-13.
 
Set two was much more evenly-played, with both teams tied at 11-11 near the midway point of the set. However, Millersville used a killer 9-1 run to blow the set open at 20-12, eventually putting the Falcons away at 25-17.
 
In set three, Lackawanna led 3-1 early on a kill from Hofmann, an ace from Reed, and a service error from Millersville, but the Marauders hit another huge run, scoring the next eleven points in a row to blow past the Falcons. The lead grew to 15-4, and the Falcons scored three-straight to get within 15-7, but Millersville eventually moved it back out to double-digits at 20-9, then scored the final five points of the match to win it at 25-10, earning their second-straight win to close out the year.
 
The loss ends Lackawanna's first-ever season of competition against PSAC and NCAA competition at 0-21. The Falcons celebrated three seniors that have been with the program for four years, winning a Region XIX Division II championship in their first year and then seeing the Falcons transition into a hopeful-NCAA Division II program.