Shippensburg Wins PSAC Volleyball Championship
MVP: Morgan DeFloria 
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. –
The Shippensburg University volleyball team won its first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship in school history on Saturday night, defeating the Clarion Golden Eagles in four sets by scores of 25-17, 27-29, 25-21 and 25-20.
Shippensburg (30-8) ties its single-season school record for victories and earns an automatic-qualifying berth for the NCAA Tournament in two weeks. In its two games this weekend, the Raiders swung .191 as a team and totaled 23 blocks while defeating the Western Division's Top 2 seeds en route to the conference championship.
Freshman
Morgan DeFloria was named the 2015 PSAC Tournament MVP after totaling 38 kills, eight digs and six blocks over the weekend's two matches while hitting .315 on 89 attempts. In Saturday's championship match, DeFloria led the Raiders with 17 kills, swinging .239, and had five block assists.
Clarion (21-16) reached Saturday's finals after a five-set win over UPJ the night before in which it had 15 blocks over the Lady Cats. In Saturday's championship match, however, the Raiders out-blocked the Golden Eagles 13-10 and limited Clarion to a .079 hitting percentage.
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Clarion Defeats Top-Seeded UPJ in Five Sets
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Johnstown, Pa. - Clarion’s
Mackenzie Biggs had 16 kills and 13 blocks,
Gabrielle Olson had 11 kills and 12 blocks,
Kaley Pittsely notched 43 assists and
Morgan Seybold added 25 digs as the Golden Eagles upset #1 PSAC-East seed Pitt-Johnstown in a thrilling 3-2 – five set win at the Sports Center
on Friday night.
Clarion will now play Shippensburg in the PSAC Championship finals at UPJ
on Saturday night at
7pm.
Clarion lost the first set 25-21, came back and won the next two by scores of 25-23, and 25-20, then lost the fourth set 25-21, setting up the fifth and final set. Clarion won that set going away by a 15-7 score.
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Shippensburg Rallies From Two Sets Down to Triumph in Five Over Edinboro
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Johnstown, Pa. - The Shippensburg University volleyball team rallied from a 2-0 deficit Friday night to come from behind and win in five sets over Western Division No. 1 seed Edinboro in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Semifinal matchup at Pitt-Johnstown's Sports Center.
Set scores were 23-25, 19-25, 25-13, 25-23 and 15-11. SU will face Clarion, the No. 2 seed from the West in tomorrow's championship match at 7 p.m. The Golden Eagles upset East No. 1 seed and host UPJ in five sets in the match following Shippensburg and Edinboro.
Shippensburg (29-8) advances to the PSAC Championship match for the first time since 2004, head coach Leanne Piscotts's first season at SU, and for just the third time since the current iteration of the PSAC Tournament began in 1989. The Raiders are seeking their first PSAC Championship in school history.
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Shippensburg Wins in Five Sets over West Chester
Shippensburg, Pa. - After dropping the opening set to the West Chester Golden Rams, the Raiders rallied to win the first round matchup in the PSAC Tournament, earning a five set victory.
Shippensburg hit .215, while WCU had an attack percentage of just .130. Last week's PSAC East Volleyball Athlete of the week,
Annie Goerl, led the way for SU, recording a team-high 17 kills.
In the fifth set, the Raiders won decisively, going on top 14-2 before ultimately winning 15-6.
Shippensburg will face Edinboro, the top seed in the PSAC West, on Friday in the semifinals. That match will take place at 5 p.m. in Johnstown.
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Clarion Earns a 3-0 Win Over Gannon
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Clarion, Pa. -
Marissa Robertson had 13 kills,
Kaley Pittsley had 38 set assists, and
Morgan Seybold had 27 digs as the Clarion Golden Eagles defeated Gannon Golden Knights in the first round of the PSAC Volleyball playoffs Tuesday night at Tippin Gymnasium.
With the win, Clarion's record improves to 20-15 and, with the loss, Gannon's final record for the season is 22-10. Clarion will advance to the PSAC Seminfals on Friday night at Pitt-Johnstown, who defeated Lock Haven tonight by a 3-0 score.
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Pitt-Johnstown Defeats Lock Haven, 3-0
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Johnstown, Pa. - The top-seeded Pitt-Johnstown volleyball team swept fourth-seeded Lock Haven University 25-15, 25-20, and 25-14 in Tuesday's PSAC Tournament Quarterfinals in the Sports Center.
Cambria Wierman had a match-high 13 kills and seven digs to lead the Lady Cats, now 29-5, into Friday's semifinals at 7:30 p.m. in the Sports Center against West No. 2-seeded Clarion.
With the victory, UPJ will host the PSAC Final Four on Friday, November 20, and Saturday, November 21.
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Lock Haven Recap
Top-seeded Fighting Scots Sweep California
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Edinboro, Pa. - Making their first appearance in the PSAC Tournament since 2010, the Edinboro University volleyball team defeated California(Pa.) in three games by scores of 25-10, 26-24, and 25-17 in a quarterfinal match on Tuesday evening at McComb Fieldhouse. With the victory, the Fighting Scots advance to the PSAC Final Four for the first time since 2010.
The Fighting Scots, the number one seed in the Western Division, improved to 31-5, the most wins since the 1990 won 31 contests. The fourth-seeded Vulcans dropped to 16-17. Edinboro now moves on to face Shippensburg in the semifinals on Friday at Pitt-Johnstown. The second seed out of the Eastern Division, the Raiders moved on with a five-game win over West Chester.
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Lock Haven, Pa. - The 2015 PSAC Volleyball Championship field has been set. The final bracket is comprised of the top four finishers from both the PSAC East and the PSAC West Division.
The top-seed in the East is Pitt-Johnstown. The Lady Cats posted a PSAC-best 19-3 record within the conference this year and won the PSAC East after finishing second the past two seasons.
UPJ will face Lock Haven in the first round. LHU finished in fourth place in the PSAC East, but defeated Pitt-Johnstown 3-2 on November 3.
The winner of that matchup will face the winner of the Clarion and Gannon. The Golden Eagles and the Lady Knights finished the year with identical 15-7 PSAC records, but Clarion will host the bout due to the tiebreaker. Clarion’s Gabrielle Olson leads the PSAC in hitting percentage (.378), while Gannon’s Hannah Kren is second in kills per set (4.08)
In the other half of the bracket, the top seed from the PSAC West, Edinboro, will face the fourth seed, California. The Vulcans were the fourth seed last year and went on to win the PSAC Tournament, sweeping top-seeded Clarion in the first round.
The Fighting Scots went 18-4 in PSAC play this year after going 12-10 last season and missing the conference tournament. Cal and Edinboro split the two meeting this year, with California winning the most recent clash on the final day of the regular season.
The other matchup in that side of the bracket will be Shippensburg and West Chester. Shippensburg has won six straight matches coming into postseason play, including a 3-1 win over West Chester. The Golden Rams have won six of their last seven matches, only falling to the Raiders. In those six wins, WCU only lost one set and has victories over tournament teams Lock Haven and Pitt-Johnstown.
All of these contests will take place on Tuesday, November 17, at 7 p.m. The semifinals and championship game of the tournament will be on November 20 and 21 and will be hosted by the highest remaining seed out of the PSAC East.