ELIZABETHTOWN, Penn. (Sept. 24, 2022) – The Rutgers University-Camden volleyball team roared back from a 3-1 loss against host Elizabethtown College to sweep Sarah Lawrence College, 3-0, and split a tri-match here Saturday.
 
The Scarlet Raptors lost to the Blue Jays, 25-27, 12-25, 25-21 and 16-25 before sweeping the Gryphons, 25-11, 25-14 and 25-22.
 
The split leaves the Scarlet Raptors with a 6-6 record and leaves eighth-year Head Coach David Gurst with 99 career victories.
 
Elizabethtown, which also swept Sarah Lawrence, improves to 11-2, while the Gryphons fall to 8-4.
 
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Tuesday with a 7 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference match at New Jersey City University.  
The Blue Jays received 15 kills and a .343 hitting percentage from senior Bryanna Miller to post their sixth win in the last seven matches.
 
In the tight opening set, Rutgers-Camden tied the score at 24-24 on an ace by senior Morgan Fox and at 25-25 on a kill by freshman Ciera McCrae. The Blue Jays finally prevailed by winning the last two points with a kill by senior Gianna Krinock and a Raptor attack error.
 
After Rutgers-Camden scored the first point of the second set, the Blue Jays notched the next six points on their way to the 25-12 win.
 
Rutgers-Camden bounced back to win a close third set, scoring the last three points after Elizabethtown cut its deficit to 22-21. Junior Erica Nebrich had two kills, sandwiched around a bad Blue Jay set, to account for the last three Raptor points.
 
Elizabethtown closed out its victory with a 25-16 win in the fourth set, breaking open an 8-8 set with four straight points to take the lead for good. Although the Scarlet Raptors cut their deficit to 12-11, Elizabethtown scored the next six points.
 
Nebrich collected 13 kills, 11 digs, two aces, one assist and one block assist in the match, while junior Isabella Choice had 11 kills, a .400 hitting percentage,  five blocks (two solo), two digs and one ace. Senior Brinn Hassan collected 28 assists, 11 digs and one kill, while senior Haley Novak had 11 digs and two aces. Fox added three aces, three digs and two assists.
   
The Raptors opened up a tight 7-5 lead in the first set with nine straight points, including three kills by Choice and three aces by freshman Bella Craig. In the second set, two aces by Nebrich and a kill by Free were part of a four-point run that turned the Raptors' 5-6 deficit into a 9-6 lead on the way to the victory. They wrapped up the match in the third set, scoring four straight points to take the lead for good after Sarah Lawrence notched the first point of the set. The four-point run was fueled by three Gryphon errors and a kill by Choice.
 
For the match, Free had 10 kills and a .350 hitting percentage, while Hassan collected 23 assists, seven digs, three aces and two kills. Both Nebrich and Choice had fir kills, four aces and one solo block, while Fox collected a match-high nine digs.