GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro College volleyball lost its first match of the day on Saturday to William Peace 3-2, with set scores of 18-25, 25-17, 22-25, 26-24, 14-16. Greensboro rallied from an 8-4 deficit to lead 10-8 in the fifth set, but the push was not enough to prevent the loss.
Greensboro Top Performers
Dilynn Norris
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- Team-high 15.0 points
- Team-high 13 kills
- .500 hitting percentage
- 2 solo blocks
Morgan Mayfield
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- Team-high 28 digs
- Team-high 4 service aces
- 4 assists
- 5.0 points
Emory Johnson
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- Team-high 26 assists
- 10 digs
- 1 service ace
Abigail Leo
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- 11 kills
- .346 hitting percentage
- 3 total blocks
- 13.0 points
Grace Young
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- 15 digs
- 2 service aces
- 2 assists
Greensboro matched William Peace with 57 kills and held the advantage at the service line with 11 aces and three service errors, while William Peace had six aces and eight service errors. The difference in attack profile came through efficiency and errors, with William Peace hitting .171 to Greensboro's .113 and committing 26 attack errors compared with 35 for Greensboro, while also finishing with 15 total blocks to Greensboro's 11.
Greensboro started the first set with
Payton Shiflet's kill from
Emory Johnson, but William Peace answered and built a 6-2 lead that kept Greensboro chasing.
Skylar Rokov and
Abigail Leo added kills in the middle of the set, and a Shiflet kill followed by
Morgan Mayfield's ace brought Greensboro within 15-12. William Peace stretched the margin again and took the set 25-18.
Greensboro opened the second set with an 8-0 run, with
Morgan Mayfield serving seven straight points that included two aces and kills by
Dilynn Norris,
Larkin Baxley and Mayfield.
Payton Wright supplied Greensboro's final two points on kills, including the set-closing swing, as Greensboro won the set 25-17.
Greensboro repeatedly cut into William Peace's lead in the third set but could not complete the comeback, dropping the set 25-22. After trailing 11-6, Greensboro got kills from Rokov, Leo and
Sydney Beck plus a Wright-Leo block while moving within 14-12. Greensboro later scored three straight points to get from 23-18 to 23-21, including a Norris kill during
Morgan Mayfield's service turn, before William Peace took two of the last three points to finish the set.
Greensboro recovered from a 24-22 deficit in the fourth set by scoring the final four points to take the set 26-24. After a William Peace service error and an attack error tied it,
Grace Young served an ace for a 25-24 lead, and
Abigail Leo's block helped finish the set on the final point.
Greensboro erased an 8-4 deficit in the fifth set with a 6-0 run, taking a 10-8 lead as
Madison Bozarth served five straight points and Norris put down three kills during the stretch.
Charlotte Michaels later added back-to-back service aces to put Greensboro ahead 13-10, but William Peace came back to tie the set and move in front.
Abigail Leo's kill evened it at 14-14 before William Peace scored the final two points to take the set, 16-14.
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