St. John's University Athletics
STORM SWEEP SETON HALL FOR FIRST BIG EAST WIN
10/2/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
The Red Storm have won nine of their last 10 and improve to 16-4, 1-1 on the season, while the Pirates, who have dropped eight of their last 10, fall to 6-10, 0-2.
In the first game the Storm bolted to a 5-0 lead over the Pirates forcing the Seton Hall head coach to call a timeout. The Storm then extended that lead to 9-1 before Seton Hall closed the gap to 10-5. The Pirates closed to within 13-11 at one point, but the Storm kept them at bay and went on to take the first game 15-9.
Seton Hall was in control early in the second game, jumping out to a 6-3 advantage. Trailing 7-3, the Storm rallied to tie the score at 7-7 on a kill by senior Aleeza Miller (Los Angeles, Calif./Cal-Berkeley). Junior Kristy Mercein (East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow) gave the Storm an 8-7 lead with one of her three aces on the day and the Storm would not trail again, taking the second game 15-9.
In the third game, with the score knotted at 4-4, senior Amanda Berg (DeKalb, Ill./DeKalb) and freshman Rosalyn Dang (Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou) blocked one of the Pirate hitters to put the Storm up 5-4. From there the Storm went on a 7-0 run to take a commanding 12-4 lead. But the Pirates didnt surrender, and eventually closed to within 14-12, denying St. Johns match point five times. But Roudovski clinched the match for the Storm with a kill to give St. Johns its first BIG EAST victory of the season.
Miller hit .522 for the match with 14 kills to go along with three blocks, while Dang chipped in with 11 kills. Mercein finished with five kills and team-high nine digs, and freshman Robyn Kurasaki (Milliani, Hawaii/Maryknoll) assisted on 47 kills and had eight digs.
The Storm will return home for the first time in three weeks on Friday October 6 to host BIG EAST foe Boston College at 7:30 in Alumni Hall.
