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Sydney London
3
Winner Pacific (OR) Pac 3-4,1-0 NWC
1
Whitman Whitm 2-8,0-1 NWC
Winner
Pacific (OR) Pac
3-4,1-0 NWC
3
Final
1
Whitman Whitm
2-8,0-1 NWC
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Pacific (OR) Pac 25 19 25 25 (3)
Whitman Whitm 16 25 19 19 (1)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Women's Volleyball Falls To Pacific In NWC Opener

WALLA WALLA, Wash. - Tate Cadang led with team highs of 30 assists and 10 digs, Christina Boxberger added a team-high 13 kills but it wasn't enough as the Whitman College women's volleyball team opened Northwest Conference play with a 25-16, 19-25, 25-19, 25-19 loss to Pacific (OR) on Friday night at the Sherwood Center.
 
Mara Murphy led the Boxers with a match-high 16 kills and Haley Walz added 28 digs, also a match high.
 
Neither team impressed on attack but it were the Boxers that forced Whitman into eight errors (.027%) in Whitman's opening set loss. 
 
Not to let the match get away from them, the Blues (2-8, 0-1 NWC) responded with a solid set two win to even the match. Boxberger and Sydney London both got in on a block and Megan Suka drilled a kill to help Whitman to an early lead. A Murphy kill cut the lead to 11-10 but the Blues responded with three straight points. Sandwiched around a Sophia Dominitz kill, Suka drilled a pair of her own and Whitman jumped on top 14-10. Pacific hung around but a pair of London kills put the set to bed and knotted the match at one set each.
 
Whitman battled over the final two sets but their lone win proved to be just a hiccup in Pacific's four-set victory. Set three saw the Blues fall behind the eight ball when kills from Charlotte Powell and Allie Hertager gave the Boxers an early 8-2 lead. Back-to-back kills from London made it a two-point score late but Whitman just couldn't climb out of its early hole.
 
Set four saw more of the same as Pacific grabbed an early lead and never trailed in sealing the four-set win.
 
Whitman is back in action at the Sherwood Center tomorrow night against George Fox. First serve is set for 6:00 p.m.
 
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