ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Union College women’s volleyball team finished off the regular season with two more wins on Saturday at the University of Rochester tri-match, defeating Buffalo State College by a 3-0 score and defeating the host Yellow Jackets, 3-1, to run the team’s winning streak to nine matches.
The team’s nine-match winning streak is the longest for a Union side in a decade, since the 2015 squad won 14 in a row, and the seventh-longest winning streak in program history.
Sophomore Kayla Martinez Cartagena led the way for Union (22-8) offensively, putting down 34 kills on .288 hitting. Senior Shannon McGrath chipped in 21 kills and 30 digs, moving her all the way into seventh place on the school’s all-time single-season kills list and marking Union’s first new entry into the top-10 since 2017. Senior Georgia Pool matched McGrath for the team lead in digs and sophomore Allie Kronenberg added 73 assists, five kills and a team-leading seven blocks as well in the two wins.
Union 3, Buffalo State 0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-20)
The Garnet Chargers hit .322 to sweep the Bengals at the start of the day, putting down 48 kills in a quick opening match. McGrath and Martinez Cartagena put down a team-leading 12 kills each, while McGrath (12 kills, 11 digs) and Kronenberg (34 assists, 11 digs) both had double-doubles.
Union scored the first four points of the opening set and never trailed, as the Garnet Chargers allowed Buffalo State to earn consecutive points only once. The Bengals held a lead in the early stages of…
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