Blue Jays Soar Past Garnet
SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Johns Hopkins swept the Garnet volleyball team 3-0 Saturday afternoon at Tarble Pavilion. The Blue Jays led throughout the match winning by game scores of 30-16, 30-22, 30-17.
With the loss, Swarthmore falls to 7-13, 2-3 CC on the season, while Hopkins improves to 18-4, 4-1 CC.
The Garnet recorded 67 digs in the match to go towards the Centennial Conference's effort to fight breast cancer in the "Digging for a Cure" campaign during National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Junior libero Erin Heaney (Buffalo, N.Y. / City Honors) led the Garnet with a match high 20 digs. Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month individual sponsors pledged a donation for each dig to go directly to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The total amount collected will be announced at the Centennial Volleyball Championship in November.
Sophomore outside-hitter Allison Cappelaere (Ellicott City, Mary. / Centennial) registered a double-double (12 kills, 11 digs) set the tempo for the Blue Jays. She also logged 8 aces to keep the momentum on Hopkins side throughout the match. Senior Natalia Fijalkowski (Windsor, Calif. / Windsor) notched a match high 13 kills, while junior Kim Jackanich (Pacifica, Calif. / St. Ignatius College Prep) led the squad with 14 digs. Junior setter Amanda Lewis (San Antonio, Tex. / St. Mary's Hall) paced the visitors with 30 assists.
Swarthmore received strong play from Vanessa Wells '08 (Chicago, Ill. / Lincoln Park) who tallied double digits kills for the fifth time this season with 11. Kearney Bangs '10 (Kingston, Wash. / North Kitsap) continued her strong play as setter with 31 assists.
The Garnet will look to get back in the win column this Wednesday as they travel up I-476 to take on Mules. The match against Muhlenberg is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.