PHILADELPHIA – The HFU volleyball team won a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Tournament match for the sixth season in a row, holding of Dominican (25-19, 25-22, 22-25, 25-21) in the quarterfinals on Monday evening at the Campus Center. 
 
Up Next
Appearing in its sixth straight CACC Tournament Semifinal, HFU will host CACC North champion Bloomfield on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Faith Zehnder (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) led all players with 24 digs, one shy of a career-high, to surpass 1000 for her career
  • Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) and Mainerys Munoz (Stafford, Va./North Stafford) were also in double-figures for digs with a season-best 18 and 14, respectively, one shy of a career-high for the latter
• Allyssa Hartney (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) (16), Kinzer (season-best 15) and Skylar Osenkarski (Harding, Pa./Holy Redeemer) (career-high 12) gave HFU three Tigers with double-digit kills as well, with Natasha Yanief (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) adding eight, one shy of a season-best
  • Osenkarski notably added two blocks to move into a tie for seventh in program history with 190 for her career
• Kinzer and Kyla Sayson (Sewell, N.J./Gloucester Institute of Technology) both posted a season-high five aces to lead all players 
• Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) orchestrated the attach with a career-best 52 assists
  • Her 918 career assists now rank eighth in program history
• Isabella Mosquera (West Chicago, Ill./Saint Charles East) led all players with seven blocks, one shy of a season-high
  • Mosquera's 74 block assists on the year are now second in the program's single-season history

 
Inside the Box 

• Holy Family had double the amount of aces as the Chargers, 14-7, while also posting 16 more kills, 60-44, for a new season-best
  • The Tigers' 78 digs and 58 assists were also new season-highs

 
How it Happened
First Set

• Trailing by as many as four early and at 12-15, Kinzer had four consecutive aces as part of seven unanswered that began a set-ending 13-4 surge  

Second Set

• Both teams had early runs of five, before eight ties and seven lead changes ended with Dominican ultimately ahead 18-20
• The Tigers would use a second run of five though, featuring 2.5 Mosquera points and back-to-back aces by Steck, to match the largest advantage of the set at 23-20
• The Chargers came back with the next two points but a Hartney kill gave HFU set point, which it converted when Mosquera teamed with Yanief for a block

Third Set

• Holy Family erased two four-point deficits in a set that featured 10 ties and five lead changes, and the Tigers were ahead as late as 22-21 after a Sayson ace
• Dominican closed the set with the final four points though, avoiding the sweep

Fourth Set

• A 6-1 flurry that featured three Kinzer kills erased an early 5-10 deficit, and HFU took its first lead of the set, 15-14, following three consecutive kills by Mosquera, Yanief and Hartney
• The two teams would trade the next eight points, two on and two off, before a Chargers kill knotted the score at 19
• Kinzer and Osenkarski would then provide two kills apiece in a 4-0 surge, setting the stage for kills by Kinzer and Hartney to end the match as the two teams traded the final four points