NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – The Cortland women’s volleyball team claimed its second straight SUNYAC regular-season title after rallying from a two-set deficit to defeat host New Paltz in the conference regular-season finale for both teams. New Paltz won the first two sets, 25-21 and 25-17, but Cortland came back to win the next three, 25-10, 25-23 and 15-10.
Cortland (17-4, 9-0 SUNYAC) will be the top seed in the six-team SUNYAC postseason tournament. The Red Dragons have finished 9-0 in the league each of the last two seasons. Cortland earns a bye into the semifinals and will host the league “final four” Nov. 4-5. Cortland will face either fourth-seeded Geneseo or fifth-seeded Oswego in the semifinals. New Paltz (18-3, 7-2 SUNYAC) had a 10-match winning streak snapped. The Hawks will be the third seed and will host sixth-seeded Buffalo State in the first round Nov. 1, with that winner facing Brockport in the semifinals at Cortland.
Zoe Staats (Buchanan/Hendrick Hudson) led Cortland with 17 kills. Allie Sturgess (Stony Brook/Ward Melville) and Giovanna Rossi (Nichols/Tioga Central) each had 13 kills. Mikenzie Martens (Carthage) led the Red Dragons with four aces and 23 digs, Meadow Wittman (Colden/Springville Griffith Institute) finished with 29 assists, three aces, and eight digs and Danielle Fisk (Honeoye Falls/Honeoye Falls-Lima) had three blocks and two aces. Sturgess and Carly Haegele (Commack) each finished with 11 digs, with Haegele adding two aces.
Mackenzie Williams led New Paltz with 20 kills, Victoria Konicki had 11 kills and five blocks, and Letisha Perez totaled eight kills and seven blocks, three…
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