PHILADELPHIA – The HFU volleyball team had Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) leader Bridgeport on the ropes, leading 2-0, only for the Purple Knights to storm back and win the final three sets on Senior Night at the Campus Center on Friday evening. 
 
Prior to the match, the Tigers honored the senior class of Ashley Petrasovic (Queens, N.Y./Monsignor McClancy Memorial), Natasha Yanief (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) and Faith Zehnder (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood), as well as fifth-year Maeve Boylan (Ridley Township, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara).  
 
Holy Family won the first two sets, 25-21 and 25-23, and nearly pulled off an improbable comeback in the third, rallying from 12-22 to within 20-22. 
 
After UB took the fourth, 12-25, the two teams exchanged six ties early in the fifth, before the Purple Knights broke a 7-7 score-line with six unanswered to take control for good.  
 
Individual Highlights

• Boylan fell one dig shy of a match-high with 20 to move into ninth in program history with 1,128 for her career
• Petrasovic tied a career-best with nine kills, which was second on HFU, while Yanief added eight
• Ava Kidd (Walton, Ky./Larry A. Ryle (Saint Anselm)) led the Tigers with career-bests of 18 kills on .400 hitting and a match-high three aces, as well as three blocks
• Sam Swenby (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen (Loch Haven)) also had three blocks, to go along with nine kills on .288 hitting
• Kyla Sayson (Sewell, N.J./Gloucester Institute of Technology) paced Holy Family with 29 assists, while Morgan Steck (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) added 19
• Shelby Kinzer (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington) and Keira Rogan (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) contributed 11 digs apiece

 
Inside the Box Score

• The Tigers held advantages in digs (69-63) and aces (10-8), while UB had edges in kills (63-52) and hitting percentage (.274-.154)