Box Score

FAIRFIELD, Conn.– The Fairfield University volleyball team won its seventh consecutive match by knocking off Manhattan College 3-1 (27-25, 28-30, 23-25, 25-19) this afternoon at Alumni Hall.
 
Senior Brianna Dixion paced the Stags with a season-high 19 kills. Sophomore Lindsay Weaver also had a big match, tallying a season-high 13 kills on .370 hitting and a career-best seven total blocks. Sophomore Caitlin Stapleton added 12 kills and five total blocks. Junior Rachel Romansky had her sixth double-double of the year, finishing with a season-high 54 assists and 17 digs. She also added two aces, two blocks, and six kills, hitting .462 without an error.
 
Defensively, libero Kara Reis posted 27 digs and five assists on the afternoon. Reis brought her career total to 1,574 digs. The senior is 21 digs away from surpassing Jazmin Pa'akaula for third all-time and exactly 100 away from the program record of 1,674 which was set by Lindsey Lee in 2007.
 
Sophomore Carsen Mata added 19 digs and three aces, tying career-highs in both categories, while sophomore Camille Coffey had eight kills and 14 digs. Junior Hayley Moyer had nine kills to go along with three total blocks.
 
In the first set, Fairfield was trailing by as much as five points when it began to chip away at the deficit. Stapleton hooked a shot on the sideline to pull the Stags within 20-19 and a bad set by the Jaspers allowed the score to be tied. Fairfield pulled ahead, 24-21, but back-to-back blocks by Manhattan held off set point. The Jaspers' Sydney Volovski came through with a kill to tie the score while a solo block by Mariana Furquim gave Manhattan a 25-24 lead. Weaver and Stapleton returned to the lead to the Stags with kills while Moyer ended the frame, 27-25, with a kill of her own.
 
Fairfield pulled ahead 17-12 in the second set but Manhattan stormed back to tie the score 17-17. From that point on, the two teams traded points. With the score tied at 28-28, a cross-court kill by Dixion put the Stags ahead. Dixion then bounced a shot just inside the backline to give Fairfield the 30-28 win.
 
The third set was another back-and-forth battle with 13 ties and nine lead changes. Manhattan opened up a 22-19 lead, but the Stags came back and tied the score at 22-22 on a kill by Dixion. Moyer followed with a kill to put the Stags on top once again. Manhattan was able to regain the lead after a pair of Fairfield errors and Malia McGuinness gave the Jaspers the 25-23 victory with an ace.
 
Manhattan carried the momentum into the fourth set, opening up a five-point lead. The Stags gradually gained ground, tying it 17-17 with a huge block by Moyer and Dixion. Moyer then smacked down a feed from Romansky to give Fairfield the lead and shift the momentum. The Stags closed out the match on an 8-2 run.
 
Fairfield out-blocked Manhattan, 10-9, had a 99-94 advantage in digs, and a 68-51 advantage in kills. Furquim and Jamie Collareta each posted a double-doubles for the Jaspers with Furquim recording 15 kills and 14 digs and Collareta tallying 24 assists and 10 digs.
 
Fairfield (7-5) returns to action on September 19 as the Stags travel to Siena College. Fairfield then heads to Iona on September 21. Both matches are slated for 7pm.