ORANGE, Calif. - The Chapman University women's volleyball team
can be unfriendly hosts, too. Four days after losing to
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in Claremont on Saturday, the Panthers
rebounded Tuesday night defeating the Sagehens 25-19, 19-25, 25-14,
24-26, 17-15 at Hutton Sports Center in their first home game in
nearly three weeks.
The teams split the first two games before Chapman (12-9) took
control to win game three 25-14. The Panthers had an opportunity to
close out the match in the fourth game leading 23-21, but the
Sagehens scored five of the next six points to win the game 26-24.
The fifth game saw Chapman build an 8-4 lead and never trailed
before sealing the victory.
Chapman junior libero Linda Ly set a
career-high with 43 digs, good enough for third on Chapman's
single-match list. Junior OH Eryn Leja added 13
kills and 22 digs and senior MB Jill Felger led
all hitters with a game-high 16 kills. Felger, who on Saturday
became just the fourth Panther in the school's Division III history
to reach 1,000 kills in her career, moved into second place on
Chapman's career kills list with 1,037.
Sagehens junior OH Sarah Amos had 15 kills and
senior libero Ruchi Patel had 32 digs in the loss.
