BOSTON, MA - In the final regular season home match for four Northeastern seniors, the Huskies' volleyball team defeated America East opponent Stony Brook 3-1 on Sunday afternoon at Solomon Court. Seniors Kristin Deatherage, Adrianna DiGregorio, Jasmine Mullings and Gianina Pellegrini were all honored prior to the match.
Deatherage had 18 kills to lead NU's offense and Pellegrini added 14 kills. The catalyst of Stony Brook's offense was Rachel Goldsmith who tallied a game-high 23 kills.
The Huskies took game number one 30-25 behind the play of Pellegrini (five kills) and DiGregorio (four kills). Goldsmith had eight kills in game one alone for Stony Brook.
The Seawolves came out strong in the second game and took a quick 7-1 lead, courtesy of three service aces. NU coach Ken Nichols took a timeout to regain his team's composure and they respoded by battling back to get within three at 9-6.
Stony Brook kept the pressure on and led 29-24. Briana Furch took the serve for the Huskies and got NU as close as 29-27. Debra Falkenberg stopped the Husky run with a kill to end game two at 30-27 for the Seawolves and even up the match at one game apiece. Goldsmith once again led Stony Brook with seven kills.
In game three, Northeastern jumped out to an early 12-7 lead over the Seawolves. with the score 15-8 NU and Stony Brook had a back and forth rally. Sara Bill made an impressive dig that led to a monster kill by Deatherage. Stony Brook took a timeout, but it was too late as the damage had been done. NU took game three 30-20 behind eight kills from Deatherage.
The fourth and final game of the match was tight in the beginning with no team managing to pull away from the other as the score was tied at 16. NU then went on a 14-6 run to close out the game and record the victory, 30-22.
With the victory Northeastern improves to 19-8 on the season and 9-1 in America East action, while Stony Brook falls to 11-16 overall and 4-6 in conference play.
Northeastern is on the road for its final four regular season matches. Next up is America East's top team Towson on Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. in Maryland.
Stony Brook | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN
## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE
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3 Regine Lilavois..... 3| 1 0 1 1.000| 19| 1 1| 0| 9| 0 0 0| 1
8 Susanne Westing..... 4| 1 0 1 1.000| 0| 0 0| 1| 8| 0 0 0| 0
9 Valerie Maloy....... 4| 9 11 26 -.077| 1| 2 3| 0| 4| 0 0 0| 0
10 Rachel Goldsmith.... 4| 23 9 50 .280| 2| 1 0| 0| 5| 0 1 0| 0
11 Jaime O'Connor...... 3| 2 3 17 -.059| 2| 0 1| 2| 2| 0 1 0| 0
14 Danielle MacKnight.. 4| 4 3 12 .083| 0| 0 1| 3| 6| 0 2 0| 0
4 Julie Zub........... 4| 2 0 4 .500| 26| 1 0| 0| 7| 0 1 0| 0
7 LaToya Byerly....... 4| 4 6 16 -.125| 1| 0 0| 1| 1| 0 2 2| 0
12 Dana Montazzoli..... 1| 1 0 1 1.000| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0
13 Debra Falkenberg.... 4| 11 4 21 .333| 1| 1 0| 0| 4| 0 1 0| 0
15 Marisa Feldman...... 2| 1 0 1 1.000| 0| 0 1| 1| 2| 0 1 0| 0
TEAM................ | | | | 1| | |
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Totals.............. 4| 59 36 150 .153| 52| 6 7| 9| 48| 0 9 2| 1
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 4.5
Game K E TA Pct
1 15 9 34 .176 GAME SCORES 1 2 3 4 TEAM RECORDS
2 17 8 37 .243 Stony Brook......... 25 30 20 22 11-16, 4-6 AE
3 10 7 34 .088 Northeastern........ 30 27 30 30 19-8, 9-1 AE
4 17 12 45 .111
Northeastern | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN
## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE
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3 Adrianna DiGregorio. 3| 8 2 13 .462| 0| 0 1| 1| 1| 0 3 0| 0
4 Jasmine Mullings.... 2| 2 1 5 .200| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 1 0| 0
5 Lindsay Wagner...... 4| 8 2 25 .240| 1| 4 4| 1| 9| 1 2 0| 0
9 Kristin Deatherage.. 4| 18 5 37 .351| 0| 0 0| 0| 4| 0 2 1| 1
11 Kristin Ursillo..... 4| 7 2 15 .333| 52| 1 2| 1| 6| 0 4 0| 1
15 Gianina Pellegrini.. 4| 14 5 27 .333| 0| 0 0| 1| 5| 2 4 0| 0
2 Sara Bill........... 4| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 7| 0 0 0| 0
6 Briana Furch........ 3| 3 1 11 .182| 1| 2 0| 0| 2| 0 2 0| 0
7 Kelly Cognac........ 3| 0 1 1-1.000| 1| 0 0| 1| 2| 0 0 0| 0
8 Whitney Wienkoop.... 4| 0 0 1 .000| 0| 1 0| 0| 6| 0 0 0| 0
10 Rebecca Holland..... 3| 1 0 1 1.000| 0| 1 0| 1| 1| 0 0 0| 0
14 Erin Spangler....... 3| 2 4 10 -.200| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 2 2| 0
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Totals.............. 4| 63 23 146 .274| 55| 9 7| 6| 43| 3 20 3| 2
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 13.0
Game K E TA Pct
1 17 5 37 .324 Site: Boston, MA (Solomon Court)
2 14 8 34 .176 Date: Oct 28, 2001 Attend: 139 Time: 1:57
3 18 7 40 .275 Referees: Steve Webster, Brad Frost
4 14 3 35 .314 NU - Ken Nichols receives Yellow Card in game 4
