Box Score DOYLESTOWN (Pa.) -- The Delaware Valley University volleyball team held a senior day ceremony for its three seniors, Jules Campbell, Reilly Green, and Meghan Smith before nearly completing a comeback from down two sets to visiting Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom foe Misericordia University. The Cougars won the first two sets, 25-15 and 25-18. The Aggies won the next two, 25-20 and 25-20, but dropped the fifth set, 16-14. 

Campbell, Green, and Smith combined for seven years of contribution with the DelVal volleyball program and over 250 kills and digs in their careers. 

In this contest, Misericordia (13-11, 4-2 MAC Freedom) only trailed once in the first two sets as it controlled play and with 20 kills in the two games to DelVal's 18. The Aggies committed eight errors in each of the first two sets while the Cougars committed just seven combined. 

DelVal (2-13, 0-7 MAC Freedom) fell behind in the third, 2-0, but went on a 12-3 run to take a seven-point lead it never relinquished. The Aggies had 13 kills and six errors in the third compared to 10 kills and seven errors for the visitors. The fourth set was much of the same as Misericordia led 11-3 in the early going, before DelVal responded. The Green and Gold scored six-straight points behind the serving of Olivia Deffendall and continued on to a 10-2 run to take a one-point lead, 13-12.

The Cougars jumped back on top, 18-16, but a 9-2 run by the Aggies sealed the second 25-20 set win in-a-row and forced a fifth and deciding game. 

DelVal jumped out to a 4-1 lead after a kill from Green, and forced Misericordia into an early timeout. The Cougars tied the game at four apiece, but the Aggies strung together another 4-0 run to go back on top, 8-4. They maintained the four-point lead thanks to a Grace Kane service ace that made it a 12-8 contest. DelVal clung to a 13-10 lead and needed just two points to take the match, but tit was Misericordia that closed it out with a 6-1 spurt for the 16-14 set win and match victory. 

Green finished with a season-high 13 kills to go with a block and two digs and Campbell added three kills, three digs, and a block. Smith pitched in with 14 digs defensively. Deffendall matched Green with 13 kills and added 15 digs while Caitlin Nemil handed out 34 assists to go with four kills. Grace Kane led the team with four service aces and added 15 digs and six kills.