WEST CHESTER, Pa. – The Holy Family University volleyball team battled unbeaten West Chester on Tuesday evening, pushing the Golden Rams in each set (26-24, 25-19, 25-22) of an eventual loss. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Isabella Mosquera (West Chicago, Ill./Saint Charles East) led all players with four blocks, three of which were solo, and the freshman tied a season-best with six kills on .417 hitting
• Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) led Holy Family with a new career-high of 28 assists
• Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) topped the Tigers with season-bests of nine digs and eight kills
• Natasha Yanief (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) matched Kinzer with eight kills, hitting .368
• Skylar Osenkarski (Harding, Pa./Holy Redeemer) hit .385 with five kills and zero errors, and her two block assists moved her into ninth in program history with 119 for her career
• Allyssa Hartney (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) made her season debut, registering four kills on .500 hitting in two sets

 
Inside the Box 

• Holy Family set new season-bests with 33 kills and six blocks
• The Tigers out-blocked West Chester 6-5
• All four of the HFU's four service aces came in the first set, when they doubled up the Golden Rams in the category
• West Chester narrowly had more aces, 6-4, and digs, 36-33 

 
How it Happened
First Set

• Holy Family had six set-high three-point leads, including at 22-19 following a Yanief kill and Steck service ace
• A West Chester timeout led to five straight Golden Ram points, which set up double set-point
• The Tigers killed off both to tie the score at 24, but back-to-back WCU kills gave the Golden Rams the first 

 
Second Set

• West Chester took its first three-point lead of the match by scoring four of the first five points
• Holy Family could only manage to get as close as two once, when a Kinzer kill made the score 4-2
• The Tigers did however make a late run after trailing by as many nine, 10-19, as Osenkarski, Hartney and Mosquera all had kills in an 8-3 run

 
Third Set

• HFU used the momentum of that late run to begin the third with the first six points, with Kinzer, Zoe Krause (Stafford, Va./Brooke Point) and Mosquera all recording points, and the Tigers led by as many as 9-2 after a kill by Kinzer
• West Chester tied the score for the first time at 14, but Yanief kills re-established three-point advantages of 18-15 and 19-16
• The Golden Rams kept pushing though, scoring four unanswered to take their first lead at 20-19
• A WCU error tied the score one final time at 20, but Holy Family could never re-gain a lead

 
Up Next
Holy Family hosts a tri-match match for its home-opener this Saturday, taking on Kutztown at 12 p.m. and Southern Connecticut State at 4 p.m.