The Muhlenberg volleyball team made a successful home debut, dominating the final two sets in a 3-0 sweep of Hunter.
The Mules (4-2) hit .462 in the second and third sets and .374 for the match, making only eight errors in 91 attempts. They held the Hawks (2-1) to .071 hitting and had a 9-0 advantage in blocks.
Freshman Christina Marcin, playing in Memorial Hall for the first time, put down 18 kills, just four short of the school record for a three-set match. She had 8 kills in the first set alone, a set in which Muhlenberg trailed 19-15 at one point. Hunter led 22-19 before the Mules reeled off six straight points, with three of them coming on kills by Marcin.
Another 6-0 run, featuring three aces by junior Alyssa Faville, turned a 12-8 Muhlenberg lead to 18-8 in the second set. The Mules scored the last five points of the set to win, 25-11.
Muhlenberg jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the third set and went on to polish off its first sweep of the season, 25-12. The highlight of the third was a four-point sequence in which sophomores Catherine Maguire and Rachel Jacobs combined on a block three times.
Faville later added two more aces to finish with a career-high 7 to go along with her match-high 19 digs.
Junior Isabella Pontrelli and sophomore Esmae Oehler recorded 7 kills apiece, combining to make only one error, while Jacobs (pictured above) finished with 6 kills and 6 blocks.
Senior Emma Eglinton recorded 36 assists and 7 digs.
The Mules are 4-0 against teams from the state of New York this season.
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