Posted: Sep 12, 2013
Rookie Samantha Betts (Rancho Cucamonga, Cal.) led all players with a match high and brief career high of 17 kills with no errors in 27 attempts to hit .630 while adding a match-high 18 digs and fellow freshman Madeline Roulier (Amherst, Mass.) added 11 kills and eight digs guiding host Daniel Webster to a surprise 3-0 sweep of Suffolk in a regional matchup Thursday night at Mario Vague Gymnasium.
Sarah Durocher (Keene, N.H.) hit for double figures adding 10 kills and Ally Hayden (Bedford, N.H.) racked up 36 assists as DWC picked up its first win of the season (1-3) with set scores of 25-23, 25-17 and 28-26 and cooled off a streaking Rams (4-4) squad that had come in winners of four straight.
Maggie Belli (Miami, Fla.) picked up 11 digs for the winners, who went without recording one block in a three-set match for the first time since the 2005 season.
Tori Brillard (N. Andover, Mass.) led the Rams with 12 kills while Sarah Abrogast (Chesterfield, Mo.) added eight kills and 11 assists. Colbey Kennedy (Old Lyme, Conn.) was strong in the backcourt pulling in 17 digs.
DWC was strong offensively all night, hitting a season high .302 while Suffolk hit .165. The Eagles finished with decisive wins in total kills (42-32), assists (41-26), and digs (50-46).
The Eagles hit .156 as a team in the opener with Roomier knocking down four kills while Durocher and Betts added three. Suffolk was held to hitting even (.000) with three kills from Arbogast and Brillard.
The Eagles steamed in the second, hitting .375 behind five kills from Durocher along with four each from Roulier and Betts while Brillard had four for Suffolk.
Betts saved her best for last, hitting an unconscious .833 in the third with 10 kills on 12 attempts with no errors, all while chipping in seven digs, helping offset Brillard's five-kills set for the Rams.
While DWC had come back from as much as three-point deficit in the a tightly played first set, and had trailed by one only three times in the second, set three was a dogfight that saw 13 ties and six lead changes.
DWC withstood one Suffolk set point and saw the Rams dodge three set points but Betts went three for her final three including back-to-back slams at 26 all to clinch the victory.
The Eagles head out on the road for their next four contests beginning with a stop at Eastern Nazarene on Saturday for a trimatch that includes Anna Maria. The day begins at 1:00 p.m.
Suffolk visits Curry on Saturday in a trimatch with Salem State.
(Story courtesy of Daniel Webster College Sports Information)