Volleyball Falls To Stags In MAAC Tourney

Lake Buena Vista, FL - Manhattan volleyball suffered a 3-0 (25-21, 25-10, 25-18) loss to #4 Fairfield Thursday, November 15 in the first round of the 2018 MAAC Volleyball Championships. The loss ends the season for Manhattan, as the Jaspers finish 5-27 on the year. 

Highlights:

• Casey Monroe (Riverview, FL / Riverview) and Erin Hoener (St. Louis, MO / Incarnate Word) led Manhattan with four kills a piece.
• Hoener added two blocks to her day's performance, finishing the season with a team-high 85 total blocks, or 0.79 blocks per set. Her 23 solo blocks this season lands just one-off tying for an all-time top 10 single-season performance for the program.
• On Thursday, senior Kenza Hall (Oakland, CA / Middle Tennessee State) led the Jaspers' defense at the net, totaling three blocks for the match. Olyvia Chaltas (Temecula, CA / Great Oak) contributed two blocks for Manhattan, as well.
• Though she earned just two kills on Thursday, freshman Vivian Donovan (Newport Beach, CA / Newport Harbor) finished the season with a team-high 224 kills on the year, averaging another team-high of 2.22 kills per set in her rookie campaign. She also compiled 169 digs, ranking third on the team this year and averaging 1.67 digs per set.
• Freshman Abby Wilde (Parkesberg, PA / Octorora) led Manhattan with 18 assists against the Stags, while also contributing two kills from the setter position. 
• Senior Sandra Lozanova (Pernik, Bulgaria / Fresno State) tallied one ace against Fairfield, finishing the season with a team-high 44. Going into Thursday's match, Lozanova ranked first in the MAAC and fifth in all of NCAA Division I with 0.57 service aces per set. 
• The Jaspers committed just 14 attack errors in Thursday's match, but compiled a .071 hitting percentage, while allowing Fairfield to put together a .259 performance. 
• As a team, the Jaspers held a 5-3 blocking advantage, despite having no blocks in the first set.
• Fairfield advances to the second round of the MAAC Championships, and will take on the winner of #6 Niagara/#7 Quinnipiac, which will be played Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
• Despite a season-ending injury, senior libero Alyssa Rehrer (Lorton, VA / South County) finishes her Manhattan career at sixth on the program's all-time digs list with 1,402. She earned a team-high 354 this season.
• Before the match on Thursday, senior Samantha Wagner (Sandy, UT / Hofstra) was selected to the Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team by members of College Sports Information Directors of America (COSIDA). The honor, which recognizes Wagner's performance both on the court and in the classroom, makes her eligible for All-America honors, which will be announced in December.