Eagles Open with Win over LIU Brooklyn

Friday, August 26

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

1:00 PM

Boston College

1-0

LIU Brooklyn

0-1

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
LIU Brooklyn	18	25	17	19	1
Boston College	25	23	25	25	3

August 26, 2016 | Volleyball

Box Score

Double-doubles for Calvete and Goss in four-set win

MATCH INFORMATION
Score: Boston College 3, LIU Brooklyn 1 (25-18, 23-25, 25-17, 25-19)
Records: Boston College (1-0), LIU Brooklyn (0-1)
Location: Power Gym, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

BC HIGHLIGHTS
- Junior OH Sol Calvete led the Eagles with a double-double (13 kills, 12 digs) and had a match high in kills.
- Sophomore OH/RS McKenna Goss also posted a double-double with 10 kills and 12 digs.
- Sophomore S Camille Oemcke's 41 assists were a match high, as was senior libero Madisen Lydon's 19 digs.
- The Eagles maintained a hitting percentage of over .300 for the first three sets of the match.

HOW IT HAPPENED
SET 1
Calvete opened the set by serving the Eagles to a 5-1 lead. BC led by as many as eight points. From there, the Maroon and Gold did not look back, posting a team hitting percentage of .324 in the set on their way to a 25-18 victory.

SET 2
The Eagles trailed for the majority of the set, their largest deficit being four points. Service errors throughout the set hurt BC as they failed to establish a lead after 2-1 and dropped the set 23-25.

SET 3
Similar to the first set, the Eagles jumped out out to an early 6-1 lead led by the serving of Lydon. Another high killing percentage of .308 for the Eagles (.312 overall) led them to a 25-17 victory to gain a 2-1 advantage.

SET 4
Boston College closed out the match with another strong set in the killing percentage category (.290). The Eagles won the set, 25-19.

COACH'S QUOTE
"It's good to get the first match out of the way. We have pretty basic goals for this in terms of what we wanted to do. For the most part we executed them. There's still some room to do better. You could see it at the beginning of training camp – and its starting to show up here – there's a character of this team about defense that I really like. I think there's really something for us to work with. There's some great potential here."

UP NEXT
The Eagles will be back in Power Gym tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. for a rematch against LIU Brooklyn, then will close out the BC Invitational against Fresno State in the nightcap at 7:30 p.m.