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Volleyball to host Johns Hopkins for a good cause

BY GENEVRA PITTMAN

In print | October 4, 2007

After a breakthrough tournament the previous weekend at Elizabethtown College, the Garnet volleyball team continued its impressive play in two conference games last week. Swarthmore handily defeated Washington College, 30-27, 30-22, 30-22 last Wednesday at home and then lost a disappointing, but well-played, match at McDaniel on Saturday, 27-30, 30-32, 30-19, 25-30, to bring its conference record to 1-2. Despite the loss to the Green Terror, Coach Harleigh Leach was happy with the team’s intensity.

“We are definitely showing that we’re a different team right now,” she said. “We’re playing with great efficiency. We ran into some uncontrollable factors on Saturday … it just didn’t go our way.”

Katherine Gold ’08 (12), Johanna Bond ’10 (11) and Jen Wang ’09 (10) all put in double-digit kill performances against the Shorewomen, while Erin Heaney ’09 contributed a team-high 23 digs. On Saturday, Wang stepped up again with 25 kills and only two errors, with Vanessa Wells ’08 adding another 15 kills and Heaney recording 32 digs. Setter Kearney Bangs ’10 had 47 assists in the match against Washington and 61 against McDaniel.

The Garnet will travel to Bryn Mawr College tonight before hosting Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. The Hopkins game will be part of Digging for the Cure, a conference-wide event to raise money in the fight against breast cancer. The women are collecting pledges per dig from fans to contribute to the cause, and are excited about drawing a big crowd to the game against a worthy opponent.

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