WVB-Lasers drop non-conference match to UMASS Dartmouth

Dartmouth, MA-The Lasell women's volleyball team dropped a non-conference match to UMASS Dartmouth on Thursday night 3-1. The loss drops the women to 6-9 and UMASS goes to 6-4. 

After dropping the first set 13-25, the Lasers came back to win the second set 27-25, but they couldn't hold off the Corsairs and dropped the next two sets 22-25 and 20-25. 

Tori Scambray (Brea, Calif.) and McKenna McCool (Loomis, Calif.) led the offense with 12 and 7 kills for the Lasers and Emily Cerasani (Buena Park, Calif.) added 33 assists in the loss.  Defensively, Emily VanHouten (Rockaway, N.J.) led the team in digs with 17 and Juliana Medini (Roxbury, N.J.) led the team with four blocks.

With the first set tied at four, a Laser error followed by an ace and a kill by the Corsairs sparked a 10-3 run by the hosts to bring the lead to 14-7. UMass Dartmouth continued to roll and eventually made it 22-11. Back-to-back kills by Marley Alexander and Devon Laing followed by an ace from Kate Wade finished off the first set.

In set two, the Lasers jumped ahead to an early 7-5 advantage.  UMass Dartmouth then fought back to even the score at 10. Late in the set, Lasell went on an 10-4 run to take a 23-19 lead and timely kills by UMASS Dartmouth tied the score at 25, but two kills by Scambray evened the match at one.

With the Corsairs behind 17-16, Laing spiked the ball to knot the score in the third set. Lasell then went ahead, 18-17, but an 8-4 UMass Dartmouth run propelled the Corsairs to a 2-1 match lead.

The fourth set went back-and-forth until the score was even at 13. A kill by Wade then jumpstarted a 12-7 run that put the match out of reach for the Lasers.

Next up, the Lasers will travel to Harford, CT on Saturday for their first two conference matches of the year against Anna Maria and USJ.