WILMINGTON, Del. -- Five Post Women's Volleyball players finished with 10-plus digs as part of an 82-dig afternoon for the Eagle defense, while graduate outside hitter Kristina Peric led the team with 22 kills as Post held off Goldey-Beacom College's comeback attempt after trailing by two sets, to navigate their way to their third consecutive conference win, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS

Post University 3, Goldey-Beacom College 2  

Post University (12-2, 3-0 CACC)

Goldey-Beacom College (8-8, 2-2 CACC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
The 82 digs for Post as a team were the second-most they have had this year, behind only their match against Mercy University, which also went five sets after the Eagles held a 2-0 lead after two sets, when they manufactured 95 digs in that matchup. Senior libero Alyssa Groves led the team with 25 digs, but junior outside hitter Vivien Andrea Fehervari had 16 digs, sophomore defensive specialist Alexa Arnold finished with 11 digs, and both graduate setter Alice DiFrancesco and Peric each had 10 digs as every single player for Post had at least one recorded dig in the win. 

In a match where Post had their most attack errors for a single game at 33 and their lowest attack percentage of the season at .084, they were able to limit the errors down the stretch to just seven combined in the final two sets after committing 26 errors through the first three sets. Not producing much better than the Eagles, Goldey-Beacom had just a .124 attack percentage with 26 errors with 47 kills, just one less than Post, who finished with 48 kills. 

16 ties and nine lead changes made up the entirety of the match, but they would all come in the first two sets, including 13 ties and seven lead changes in the second set alone. Over the final three sets, neither side would work to a tie, and the team that scored the first point would go on to win the set without the opposition pulling even or in front. Post opened up an 8-3 lead in the first set after trailing 3-2 with a 6-0 run, never trailing again after that en route to a 25-22 victory. 

Once again trailing in set two, a pair of Lightning errors helped spur a 3-0 run for the Eagles that tied the set with an Arnold service ace at 20 all and following a block from sophomore middle hitter Gabi Fullwood and junior opposite hitter Baylee Brin, Brin's attack error to follow started a stretch of four straight errors by Goldey-Beacom to help Post complete the second set comeback with a 25-23 win. 

Never leading in sets three or four, Post would have to go to the fifth set for the fifth time this year, after falling 25-17 in both of those sets, and enter that decisive set with a 3-1 record so far this season. Off to a 4-0 start, which was led by sophomore middle blocker Alani Duncan's kill and three Lightning miscues, the Eagles never fell behind on their way to a 15-9 game-ending set win, moving to 12-2 this season and 3-0 in conference play, winning their fifth straight match against Goldey-Beacom, 3-2. 

DiFrancesco continued her double-double streak for Post, making it five consecutive matches after recording 34 assists and 10 digs. Sophomore libero Gaby Fernandez led all players with 34 digs for the Lightning, while three players had 10-plus kills in Fullwood, with a team-leading 14 kills, followed by Brin with 13 kills and junior outside hitter Giuliana Jaku with 11 kills. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Sitting at 2,179 career digs after tonight's match, Alyssa Groves is only 354 digs away from surpassing Chestnut Hill College's Regina Trabosh for the most digs in CACC history, with 2,533 career digs from 2013-16
• Between her time at AIC and Post University, Alice DiFrancesco entered the match with 1,801 career assists. Recording 34 assists tonight, she moves to 199 assists away from 2,000 in her career
• Kristina Peric recorded 24 kills on 83 attempts, making it her 13th match of the season in which she has had double-digit kills out of 14 total matches 
• Alani Duncan finished with a team-high seven total blocks for Post University -- Duncan's career-high for a match is eight blocks set back on September 27th against Saint Anselm College

 
WHO'S NEXT
Post University returns home from their road trip on Tuesday evening to continue with their three-game stretch of conference matches against Dominican (N.Y.) at 6:00 PM in the Drubner Center. The Eagles have won their last four matchups with the Lady Chargers since the end of the 2023 season, including three last year, which culminated in the CACC Semifinals matchup.