AMCC Women's Volleyball Game of the Week:
Pitt-Bradford (1-0) @ La Roche University (1-0)
Saturday, October 2 at 1:00pm
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The AMCC Women's Volleyball Game of the Week features two teams sitting at 1-0 in conference play -- the Pitt-Bradford Panthers and the La Roche University Redhawks.
Pitt-Bradford enters the weekend 1-0 in conference place (13-3 overall) and sits on a 12-game winning streak that has seen them win 22 straight sets. Senior Emily Cleveland leads the Panthers and the conference in kills, with 216. She is currently 12th in the country in the category. Freshman Olivia Reese is also having a strong season for the Panthers, as she is 2nd in the AMCC with 140 kills. Cleveland is not the only Panther at the top of the AMCC leaderboards. Junior setter Tabitha Walker leads the conference in assists with 494 and Jordan Sitler is leading the AMCC in total blocks with 48.
La Roche is also 1-0 in conference play with a 4-10 overall record. The Redhawks have won two straight, including most recently a 3-2 victory over Pitt-Greensburg. Senior L Sydney Herzer is tops in the conference with 289 digs on the season and 5.67 digs per set. Senior OH Bethany Nulph ranks fourth in the conference with 123 kills. As a team, La Roche ranks second in the AMCC with 70 total blocks and third with 471 kills and 424 assists.
In their last season of play (2019), the Pitt-Bradford and La Roche squared off twice. The Panthers beat the Redhawks in three sets to open their conference schedule, and then repeated the feat in the First Round of the AMCC Tournament.