PHILADELPHIA – In a match that featured four tightly contested sets, the HFU volleyball team bounced back from dropping the first to defeat Bridgeport in four (22-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-23) on Saturday afternoon at the Campus Center.  
 
Individual Highlights

• Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) set new career-highs with a match-best 46 assists and 13 digs for her fourth double-double of the season
• Allyssa Hartney (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) led all players with a season-high 20 kills on .310 hitting, while Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) was also in double-figures with 12, one shy of a season-best
• Zoe Krause (Stafford, Va./Brooke Point) set a new season-high with eight kills on a team-best .389 hitting
• Isabella Mosquera's (West Chicago, Ill./Saint Charles East) six blocks were double the amount of any other player and one shy of a season-high
• Faith Zehnder (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) led three Tigers in double-figures for digs with a match-best 21, with Mainerys Munoz (Stafford, Va./North Stafford) adding a season-high 12
• Kyla Sayson (Sewell, N.J./Gloucester Institute of Technology) posted a new season-best in aces for the second match in a row with a team-high four

 
Inside the Box 

• Holy Family set new season-bests with 52 assists, 14 block assists and nine total blocks, while the Tigers' 52 kills were one shy of a season-high
• HFU's 72 digs and 10 aces were both its second-most of the year
• The Tigers tripled the amount of blocks of Bridgeport, while recording 13 more digs and outhitting the Purple Knights .222-138

 
How it Happened
First Set

• Holy Family recovered from an early 0-3 deficit to lead by as many as three, 15-12, when Mosquera and Steck combined for a block to cap an 8-3 run
• UB came right back with five straight though, and despite the Tigers tying the score at 17 with the next two points, the Purple Knights tallied four unanswered to complete a 9-2 surge
• HFU staved off the first four set-points before Bridgeport finally converted

Second Set

• Holy Family used an early 6-1 flurry to establish a 6-3 advantage that would never get closer than two
• Bridgeport got within two for first time since 4-6 at 19-21, but a Kinzer kill sparked a set-ending 4-1 surge

Third Set

• In a set that featured 13 ties and six lead changes, Kinzer broke the final deadlock with a kill to make the score 22-21, before Osenkarski and Hartney combined for a block
• The Purple Knights pulled back within one, but this time it was a Hartney kill that gave the Tigers set point, which they converted on an error

Fourth Set

• Trailing 16-13, Hartney played a part in three points of a 5-0 stretch that established an 18-16 advantage
• Bridgeport was able to tie the score with the next two points, but this time it back-to-back Mosquera kills sparking four unanswered
• The Purple Knights staved off the first three match points before Kinzer finally secured the victory with a kill  

 
Up Next
Holy Family continues a four-match home-stand on Tuesday, hosting Georgian Court at 6 p.m.