MORRISVILLE, N.Y. – The Cortland women's volleyball team completed its fourth consecutive perfect SUNYAC regular season with a 25-19, 25-18, 25-10 win at Morrisville.
The Red Dragons are now 22-5 overall and closed the league schedule with a 9-0 mark. Cortland has won 36 straight conference regular-season matches, going 9-0 in 2021, 2022, 2023 and this fall. Cortland will host the SUNYAC tournament semifinals and finals Nov. 15-16.
Anna Pilkey (Ballston Spa) led Cortland with 11 kills and three aces and also had five digs. She finished the night with a .375 attack percentage, committing just two errors in 24 attempts.
Kira Pirrera (Hauppauge/Smithtown West) ended with six kills and one error in 15 attempts (.333) and had two blocks.
Kyrah Wilbur (Syracuse/Baldwinsville) posted five kills, eight digs and three blocks and
Jennifer Koestner (Syosset) had four kills with no errors in seven attempts.
Anna Lynch (Rochester/Our Lady of Mercy) and
Samantha Rodriguez (Camarillo, CA/Adolfo Camarillo) each registered three kills, with Lynch also adding four blocks. Rodriguez led the Red Dragons with 16 assists and also totaled seven digs.
Ryan Hinshaw (Aurora, IL/Joliet Catholic Academy) had eight assists and
Mikenzie Martens (Carthage) led the team with 16 digs.
Emily Huppee led Morrisville (14-9, 6-3 SUNYAC) with 15 kills. Kayci Olson put down nine kills, Cassandra Bellmore dished out 25 assists and Kayla Sheasby had 20 digs.
Cortland finished with a .318 team attack percentage, recording 34 kills and only six errors in 88 attempts. The host Mustangs were limited to a .054 team percentage with 32 kills and 26 errors in 112 attempts.
Cortland led 19-10 in the first set. Morrisville worked its way to within four at 23-19 before an error and a Rodriguez ace ended the set. The second set was tight most of the way, with the Red Dragons eventually pulling away by scoring the final three points. Morrisville was within 11-8 in the third set before Cortland scored nine of the next 10 points to take control.
Cortland is idle for a week and a half before traveling to Ithaca on Saturday, Nov. 9, for non-league matches against Nazareth and the host Bombers to close out the regular season.
