PHILADELPHIA – Trailing 2-5 in its first fifth set of the season, the HFU volleyball team rallied for a 3-2 triumph (20-25, 25-23, 25-22, 21-25, 15-10), the Tigers' ninth straight, at city-rival Chestnut Hill on Thursday night. 
 
Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) sparked a match-ending 13-5 run, tallying Holy Family's first three points in the stretch on kills. 
 
A Natasha Yanief (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) kill tied the match at 7-7 and after the Griffins took their final lead at 7-8, the Tigers took control with four unanswered that began with a Skylar Osenkarski (Harding, Pa./Holy Redeemer) kill and ended with an Allyssa Hartney (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) block, with two Isabella Mosquera (West Chicago, Ill./Saint Charles East) points in-between.
 
Hartney then answered a CHC point with a kill, before teaming with Mosquera for another block. 
 
The Griffins would score one final point, only to have HFU put an exclamation point on the comeback with back-to-back kills by Hartney and Zoe Krause (Stafford, Va./Brooke Point).  
 
Individual Highlights

• Mosquera was a force at the net, as her season-high eight blocks were double the amount of any other player
  • The freshman now ranks eighth in the program's single-season history with 26  block solos and tied for eighth with 76 total blocks
• She also tied Kyla Sayson (Sewell, N.J./Gloucester Institute of Technology) with a team-best three aces
• Kinzer led Holy Family with a season-high 14 kills, one ahead of Hartney
  • Kinzer also set a new season-best in digs, falling one shy of her first career double-double
• Faith Zehnder's (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) 18 digs were one shy of a match-high, while Mainerys Munoz (Stafford, Va./North Stafford) was also in double-figures with 10 
  • Zehnder's six assists were one shy of a career-best
• Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) led the Tigers with 37 assists
• With two block assists, Osenkarski moved into a tie for seventh in program history with 144 for her career
• Krause was third on Holy Family with six kills on .462 hitting 

Inside the Box 

• In a match that was fairly even statistically, the biggest edge came at the net as HFU out-blocked CHC 12-5
• The Tigers also out-hit the Griffins .211-.145

How it Happened
First Set

• Five consecutive points gave CHC a set-high seven-point advantage, 8-15, but HFU stormed back with nine of the next 10 to take just its second lead at 17-16
• The Griffins regrouped and responded with six unanswered to begin a set-ending 9-3 surge

Second Set

• The two teams traded 12 ties and four lead changes until three straight Tigers points, capped by a Steck kill, produced the first three-point advantage at 17-14
• Holy Family also led 18-15, but again CHC had a run as it was this time it was a 6-2 flurry that put the Griffins ahead 20-21
• Back-to-back Kinzer kills sparked three unanswered and after a CHC point, Kinzer combined with Osenkarski for a block for set point
• The Griffins staved off the first one before an error evened the match at 1-1

Third Set

• Neither team led by more than three until back-to-back kills by Kinzer and a Mosquera ace made the score 23-18
• Chestnut Hill pulled all the way back to within one at 22-23, but HFU regrouped with a timeout that led to an Osenkarski kill and Sayson ace

Fourth Set

• Trailing by as many as eight, 8-16, the Tigers came all the way back to tie it at 20-20 when a Steck kill completed a 10-2 surge  
• Chestnut Hill regrouped with five of the final six points

Up Next
Holy Family returns home to host Post on Saturday at 12 p.m.