UAlbany Volleyball Beats Maine In Three Set Sweep, Remains Unbeaten In America East Conference Action

UAlbany Volleyball Beats Maine In Three Set Sweep, Remains Unbeaten In America East Conference Action. More to come...

Orono, Maine – Junior Valerie Sourbeer recorded a match-high 13 kills and also tallied four total blocks to lead UAlbany to a 3-0 sweep of America East Conference rival Maine in volleyball action on Sunday afternoon at Memorial Gymnasium. The Great Danes improved to 17-8 overall and 9-0 in conference play as they recorded their 11th straight win. UAlbany claimed the straight-set victory with scores of 25-22, 25-15 and 25-21.
Sophomore Brooke Stanley recorded the first two points of the match with a kill and a service ace to give UAlbany an early lead. Maine came back and built up a 10-7 advantage with a kill by Amy Lawson later in the set. The Great Danes rallied back from the deficit, as Cate Eckhardt served for three straight points, punctuated with a kill by Amanda Cowdrey to give the Great Danes a 17-14 advantage. A kill by Amanda Armstrong pulled the Black Bears within 20-18, but UAlbany’s Hillary White took an assist from Kalyn Mostert and smashed a kill to set the score at 22-19. Sourbeer recorded a kill to give the Great Danes set point, and Cowdrey recorded the final point to give UAlbany the first-set win.

White and Mostert combined for a block to start the second set, and Cowdrey served for consecutive points to give the Great Danes an early 4-2 lead. After a UAlbany service error tied the set at 5-5, the Great Danes recorded back-to-back points off a Sourbeer kill and a Maine attack error. Freshman Abbey Wexel then served for eight straight points, as senior Kamisha Kellam was involved in four consecutive blocks on Maine attacks. After building up a 17-11 advantage on a White kill, Stanley took over the UAlbany service game with three straight points. Maine attempted to rally with a kill from Armstrong to pull within 22-15, but back-to-back attack errors by the Black Bears gave UAlbany the second-set victory.



Maine, which hit .065 for the match, had several attack errors to start the third set, allowing UAlbany to build up an 8-5 advantage on kills by Sourbeer and Stanley. The Great Danes continued to build their lead, getting ahead 13-9 on a kill by Cowdrey. Kellam later recorded her third solo block of the match on a Maine attack to give UAlbany a 16-12 lead. The teams exchanged points throughout the remainder of the match, with Sourbeer recording two of the Great Danes final three points, including the match-winning kill with an assist to Stanley.

White and Cowdrey both recorded eight kills and 11 digs apiece, while Stanley finished with 38 assists, five kills, three digs and a service ace. Lindsay Allman led the Great Danes with eight kills and 16 digs, while setter Jessica Wolfenden had 24 assists, nine digs and two block assists for Maine (11-12, AE 4-5).

UAlbany (17-8, AE 9-0) will have a week off from conference play, returning to action on Sunday, Nov. 9 at Binghamton at 1 p.m.

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UAlbany (17-8, AE 9-0) def. Maine (11-12, AE 4-5), 3-0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-21)