October 13th - The Lady Panthers continued their mid-season struggles on Friday dropping a three-set match at Principia 10-15, 11-15, 15-17. Despite some excellent play early in all three sets, Greenville was unable to hold onto a lead as Principia came away with a win in front of their big homecoming crowd.
In game one Greenville raced to a 6-1 lead thanks to a balanced offensive attack and a number of Principia errors. However, the home team fought back to tie the game at seven before moving ahead at 8-9. With the Panthers trailing 10-12, a pair of serve receive errors pushed Principia over the edge as they went on to win 10-15.
Game two started much like the first as G.C. staked itself to a 9-4 lead backed by a strong run of points from outside hitter Michea McKay. McKay banged out 8 kills in the set, but Greenville once again hit a rough spot halfway through the set allowing Principia to tie the game at 9-9. The Lady Panthers never recovered as P.C. ran off the final four points in the game to win 11-15.
Unlike games one and two, game three found Principia as the aggressor early forcing Greenville into taking an early timeout trailing 5-6. Greenville regrouped and came back firing to take an 11-7 lead forcing a timeout from P.C. Principia ran off five consecutive points after the timeout and led 11-12 late. They would eventually push the lead to 12-14, but Greenville held off four match points and tied the game at 15. As was the case much of the night, a pair of sloppy points went Principia's way as Greenville dropped the set 15-17.
Michea McKay continued her strong freshman season as she tallied
16 kills in the match (16K, 9E, 40ATT - .175). Julia Wheeler was
solid all night in the middle finishing wth 9 kills and a .368
hitting percentage. Greenville will look to rebound on Saturday
as they host Blackburn College at 2:30 for homecoming.
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G | K | E | TA | PCT. | A | TA | SA | SE | REC/E | DIGS | BS | BA |
| 15 | M. Mckay . . . . . | 3 | 16 | 9 | 40 | .175 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 29-4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | S. Swanson . . . | 3 | 4 | 3 | 30 | .033 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 36-2 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | J. Wheeler . . . | 3 | 9 | 2 | 19 | .368 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | M.Vandiver . . . | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | .167 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | H. Caddell . . . . | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | .000 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | K. Harms . . . . . | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .000 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6-1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | L. Hairrell. . . . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | J. Hart . . . . . . | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2-0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | R. Temples. . . . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . - - - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | V. Watson . . . . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .- - - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | M. McDaniels. . | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - - - | 0 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 1-0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 3 | 34 | 17 | 122 | .139 | 28 | 89 | 2 | 8 | 74-7 | 53 | 1 | 4 |
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