PHILADELPHIA – The Holy Family University volleyball team responded from a dropped second set and a late Wilmington push to defeat the Wildcats in four sets (25-18, 9-25, 25-19, 25-19) in the Tigers' Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) home-opener at the Campus Center on Saturday.    
 
Individual Highlights

• Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) led all players with a career-high 40 assists, adding a season-best 13 digs for her third double-double of the season
• Faith Zehnder's (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) 25 digs were 10 more than any other player and one shy of a career-high, and she added a career-best seven assists
• Allyssa Hartney (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) and Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) had the match's two-highest kill totals with season-bests of 19 and 13, respectively
• Isabella Mosquera (West Chicago, Ill./Saint Charles East) posted a match-high five blocks

 
Inside the Box 

• HFU's 53 kills, ­50 assists, 76 digs, 10 block assists and seven total blocks were all season-bests
• The Tigers had 26 more digs, 16 more kills and 16 more assists than WIlmington
• Holy Family out-swung the Wildcats .264-.128

 
How it Happened
First Set

• Trailing 13-10, Holy Family ended the set on a 15-5 run 
• The first three points came on WilmU errors, before Zoe Krause (Stafford, Va./Brooke Point) and Kinzer each had two kills in a 5-1 stretch that capped an 8-2 surge
• Krause's kill to make the score 16-15 gave HFU the lead for good, as the Tigers responded to the Wildcats getting as close 17-18 with three unanswered capped by kills from Kinzer and Mainerys Munoz (Stafford, Va./North Stafford) 

Second Set

• Wilmington scored the first four, and nine of the first 11, points en route to running away with the second

Third Set

• Holy Family never trailed as Hartney produced two kills in an opening 5-2 flurry
• Wilmington got as close as one, 6-7, but this time it was back-to-back kills by Kinzer re-establishing a multi-point advantage for good
• Later, Mosquera and Hartney each played a part in two points in a stretch of seven unanswered that made the score 18-8

Fourth Set

• HFU led by as many as seven early, 9-2, before WilmU stormed all the way back to within 12-14
• A Skylar Osenkarski (Harding, Pa./Holy Redeemer) kill and back-to-back kills by Kinzer re-established a five-point lead, but the Wildcats responded with three straight of their own to spark a 5-1 surge to get as close as 17-18
• A Hartney kill would begin a stretch of five consecutive Tigers points, in which she scored twice, to put the match away

 
Up Next
Holy Family travels to defending CACC Tournament champion Jefferson for a 6 p.m. match this Wednesday.