Shippensburg University’s volleyball team won two matches Friday at the Tony Banner Memorial Classic at Clarion’s Waldo Tippin Gymnasium.
The Raiders swept Daemen (N.Y.) 3-0 with set scores of 25-16, 25-12 and 31-29. Shippensburg then defeated West Virginia Wesleyan 3-1 with set scores of 25-21, 30-28, 18-25 and 25-13.
Shippensburg improved to 2-1 on the season.
The Raiders recorded 25 service aces across the two matches, including 10 against Daemen and 15 against West Virginia Wesleyan. Shippensburg hit .219 as a team for the day.
Senior libero Shay Kolivoski totaled 30 digs. Juniors Jaiden Anderson and Shea Stevens combined for 44 digs, while Anderson also recorded 43 assists. Freshman setter Molly Seifert finished with 27 assists and 10 digs.
Junior Clara Wildermuth recorded 19 kills with four errors for a .319 hitting percentage and added three blocks. Sophomore Elise Bragg led Shippensburg with 21 total kills, including 14 against Daemen.
Redshirt-sophomore Riley Blank finished with 15 kills and three errors for a team-high .353 hitting percentage. Twelve of her kills came against West Virginia Wesleyan.
Senior Hailey Cappleman also totaled 15 kills and recorded a team-high nine aces. She had four aces against Daemen and a career-high five against West Virginia Wesleyan.
Senior Natalya Montague finished the day with 13 kills and four blocks, including three solo blocks. Cappleman also totaled four blocks.
Against Daemen, Shippensburg used a 7-1 run to take control of the first set and closed the second set on a 13-2 run. The third set included 21 ties and 10 lead changes before kills by Bragg and Montague secured the 31-29 win.
Bragg led the Raiders against Daemen with 14 kills and eight digs. Montague recorded eight kills and hit .300, while Wildermuth had seven kills without an error and hit .389. Anderson had 22 assists and 12 digs. Stevens led Shippensburg with 13 digs, and Kolivoski added 11.
Shippensburg held a 10-1 advantage in service aces against Daemen.
Against West Virginia Wesleyan, the Raiders used an 8-2 run in the first set to build a 17-10 advantage. Shippensburg won a back-and-forth second set 30-28 after the teams combined for 15 ties and eight lead changes.
West Virginia Wesleyan won the third set 25-18 before Shippensburg responded with a 25-13 victory in the fourth.
Kolivoski led all players with 19 digs and also recorded 10 assists. Blank, Cappleman and Wildermuth each had 12 kills. Blank hit .346, Wildermuth hit .276 and Cappleman hit .304 while adding five aces and three block assists.
Anderson finished with 21 assists, 11 digs and three aces. Seifert recorded 18 assists, seven digs and one ace.
Sophomore Augusta DeVos made her season debut and recorded five kills on two errors for a .231 hitting percentage.
Shippensburg concludes play at the Tony Banner Memorial Classic with a 9 a.m. match Saturday against Franklin Pierce.
