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ARLINGTON, Virginia (Nov. 8, 2017) – The Rutgers University-Camden volleyball team saw plenty of highlights during a season that it rolled up 16 victories, tied for the third-highest total in program history.
The Scarlet Raptors' season, however, came to an end here Wednesday night as they were swept by Marymount University, 3-0, in their opening match of the ECAC Division III Volleyball Championship.
Rutgers-Camden never led in the opening two sets as it lost, 25-10 and 25-18. The Scarlet Raptors held early leads of 3-1 and 4-2 in the third set before falling in the final set, 25-14.
Rutgers-Camden, the third seed in Pod 1 of the ECAC tournament, closes its year at 16-17 after becoming the first Scarlet Raptor team to ever reach the ECAC tournament for three straight years.
Marymount, the second seed in Pod 1, improves to 15-14. The Saints advance to the weekend action, which will be held at Frostburg State University in Maryland. They will face Arcadia University, the top seed in Pod 1, in an 11 a.m. quarterfinal match. The semifinals and the championship match will be held Sunday.
The Saints received 22 assists from freshman setter Maggie Viniard, while freshman libero Jasmine Roy notched 11 digs. Freshman outside hitter Alexa Marcum notched eight kills and hit .636, while junior right side Caroline Hanson added seven kills and hit .357.
Rutgers-Camden received 13 assists from sophomore setter
Caitlynn Marcano (Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown), while freshman setter
Alyson Lowe (Havertown, PA/Haverford) added nine. Sophomore outside hitter
Jamie Mulligan (New Gretna, NJ/Pinelands Regional) notched eight kills, while junior middle hitter
Myiah Gatling (Woolwich Township, NJ/Kingsway Regional) had six kills and hit 556. Gatling added two service aces.
Sophomore outside hitters
Jordan Erskine (Barnegat, NJ/Barnegat) and
Morgan Mulligan (New Gretna, NJ/Pinelands Regional) both added three kills.
Senior outside hitter
Cortnee Wilkerson (Los Angeles, CA/West Adams Prep), extending her program record to 125 career matches, finished with a team-high 12 digs. She also added four kills, breaking a tie she shared for the single-season program record and hiking her new standard to 321.
Among single-season records, in addition to Wilkerson's record-setting 321 kills, Wilkerson also finished second in attack attempts (1,047) and fifth in service aces (62). Marcano finished with 477 assists, the eighth-highest single-season total and only 10 shy of her sixth-place total from last year. Sophomore libero/defensive specialist
Natalie DiGiacomo (Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown), meanwhile, finished with 510 digs, the fifth-highest season total in program history.
For her stellar four-year career, Wilkerson finished with 428 sets (second on the all-time program list), 890 kills (second), 703 digs (ninth) and 90 service aces (tied for 12th), in addition to her record 125 matches played.
Marcano, halfway through her Raptor career, now owns 964 assists (fourth). Marcano, pictured above, also has 95 career service aces (11th).
Gatling, meanwhile, will enter her senior year next fall with 126 career blocks at Rutgers-Camden, tied for seventh on the program list and only seven shy of a sixth-place tie. Erskine, meanwhile, has 97 blocks, ninth on the career list.
