Boston College
4-8, 0-1ACC
Maryland
7-6, 1-0ACC
Tight Match Eludes Volleyball
September 20, 2011 | Volleyball
Sept. 20, 2011
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Chestnut Hill, Mass. - The Boston College volleyball team fell in its home opener to Maryland, 25-166, 27-25, 25-22, on Tuesday evening in Power Gym. The Eagles (4-8, 0-1 ACC) delivered their highest attack percentage of the season, but could not overcome the Terrapins (7-6, 1-0 ACC) in close sets.
Senior Tsvetelina Dureva and freshman Courtney Castle led BC with 10 points. Dureva tallied 10 kills and two digs, while Castle was credited with 10 kills and 11 digs, her second double-double in three matches.
Sophomore setter Cagla Sen posted a match-high 29 assists, adding four kills, a ace and three digs.
Senior captain Brennan Clark paced the Eagles with 16 digs and had a career-best seven assists.
The Eagles went down by two in the first, before junior Krystle Higgins put away the first of eight kills to get BC on the board. The captain hit .333 on the night and made three digs. A pair of Maryland attacking errors followed, putting BC up, 3-2.
The set progressed with the side going point-for-point until Higgins' kill at 9-8 gave BC its last lead of the first set. Two quick errors, a pair of kills and an ace put the Terps up by five. The Eagles held there, until, 20-15, a quartet of errors enabled Maryland to take the set, 25-16.
BC trailed early in the second set as well, but the Eagles twice surmounted three-point disadvantages to even the game, 10-10. Behind swings from senior Mollie Kolosky, sophomore Melissa McTighe and Castle, Boston College kept pace with Maryland to 17 all. Kolosky posted three of her season-best four kills in a second set the Eagles hit .286 as a team.
A pair of attack errors put the Eagles up two, before three kills from Dureva stretched the lead to five, 22-17. Errors and a pair of kills by Maryland advanced the score, before Castle gave BC set-point, 24-21. The Terps strung together a series of kills to even the game, 24-24. Although Sen's kill gave the Eagles had another chance to close out the second set, two kills and error gave the win to UMD, 27-25.
In the third, Dureva and Castle helped Boston College take an early lead by as many as three, but Maryland crawled by in at 10 all. The sides went back-and forth to 12, before the Terrapins claimed slight advantage off a kill and ball handling error.
A few plays later, the Eagle found themselves down, 17-15, before successful shots from Sen, Higgins and Castle overlapped one from the Terps to even the set, 18-18. The sides then traded errors, with Higgins and McTighe delivering a big block to keep pace at 21, but Maryland took the win off errors.
The Eagles will resume conference play at home on Friday, Sept. 23, versus NC State at 7 p.m. Two days later, BC hosts North Carolina at 12 p.m. Fans unable to attend are invited to follow along via GameTracker.
