SCORE: UMBC 3, UAlbany 1 (27-25, 25-23, 27-29, 25-20)
 
LOCATION: University Gym - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 8-13, 4-3 America East | UMBC 13-10, 8-0 America East
 
SHORT STORY: UAlbany won one set but the visiting UMBC took the 3-1 win, Friday night. 
 
COACH JOSH PICKARD: "It was a great battle tonight. I'm proud of how the team came out and executed. We made a couple of mistakes here and there and UMBC capitalized. We definitely have things to work on and we will do that Monday at practice."
 
KEY STATS

• Senior Regan Wright led the team in kills, totaling 15 for the match. 
• Wright led UAlbany with a .278 hitting percentage, followed closely by senior Grace Cozad with a .235.
• Wright and Cozad led the Great Danes with 16.5 and 16 points, respectively.
• Junior Malea Stanton totaled 34 assists for a team-high.
• Senior Charlotte Macken totaled 16 digs, followed closely by Cozad with 13. 
• Freshman Lilou Stegeman led the team with seven blocks, including the only Great Dane solo block of the match.
• Three different UAlbany student-athletes tallied service aces against the Retrievers. Freshman Ellie Benedict, Cozad, and Stegeman each totaled two for the team's six aces.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• UAlbany opened the first set with a kill by Grace Cozad before taking a 3-1 lead.
• The two teams rallied back and forth for the remainder of the set, until UMBC took the lead, and eventual win, with two kills from Mia Bilusic.
• Both teams exchanged leads in the second set, neither team leading by more than three points.
• Late in the second set, a Cozad kill, assisted by Malea Stanton, gave the lead back to the Great Danes, 21-20.
• UAlbany fought back from a five-point deficit in the third set to tie the score at 17, eventually sending the match into extra points.
• The Great Danes won the third set, 29-27, with a kill by graduate student Danielle Tedesco.
• A kill from Oren Abutbul, assisted by Stanton, began a five-point scoring run for UAlbany in the fourth set.
• Cozad tied the score at 19-19 with a kill, but UMBC went on a scoring run to win the set, 25-20, taking the match, 3-1.

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will head to Sacred Heart on Tuesday, October 26 before returning home with two games next weekend - NJIT (Friday, Oct. 29) and New Hampshire (Sunday, Oct. 31).

For more information on the University at Albany volleyball team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
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