Oct. 5, 2007
Box Score
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University volleyball team dropped a 3-1 decision tonight at the Al McGuire Center in Milwaukee, Wis. and continued its six-match slide. Georgetown drops to 4-15 overall on the season and is still in search of its first BIG EAST Conference win of the season with a 0-4 slate in conference play. Marquette improves to a 5-8 slate on the season and stand even at 2-2 in league action. Game scores were 30-28, 15-30, 17-30, 17-30.
Junior captain Caitlin Boland (Naperville, Ill./Benet Academy) turned in another key performance as she tallied a double-double with 40 assists and 13 digs. Sophomore Dana Dumas (Nokomis, Fla./Pine View) led the GU offense with 15 kills while classmate Kortney Robinson (Pleasant Grove, Utah/Pleasant Grove) followed up with 10 kills. Georgetown managed to hit just .057 for the match despite hitting an impressive .304 in game one. The Golden Eagles hits .260 for the match and recorded 60 kills and 16.0 total team blocks.
Georgetown pulled away with game one recording 20 kills with a .304 hitting percentage. Dumas led the team with seven kills and hit .211. Sophomore Kiersten McKoy (Oakland, Calif./Bishop O'Dowd) was flawless hitting 4-for-4 while Robinson pitched in four kills of her own and hit .300. Boland turned in 18 assists and two kills to hit .600. Georgetown held a four-point lead (16-12), its largest of the game, before Marquette tied it up stringing together four-straight points. The Hoyas fell behind, 25-23 when a McKoy kill started a four-point run for the Hoyas. It was followed up by an MU error piggybacked by consecutive Robinson and McKoy kills. With the Blue and Gray leading 29-28, a Dumas kill sealed game one for Georgetown.
The Hoyas floundered in games two and three, hitting in negative figures for both games, while the Golden Eagles turned in .321 and .222 performances, respectively.
The Blue and Gray hit .021 in game four, however Marquette turned in its best performance yet hitting .333 on 17 kills in 42 attempts. The Hoyas kept it close, tying the game at eight points apiece on an MU error. However, the Golden Eagles took nine of the next 10 points for a 17-9 lead prompting a GU timeout. The break was not enough for Georgetown as Marquette continued to pull away and clinched the match on a kill from Julie Richards.
The Hoyas return to action on Sunday, October 7 when Georgetown travels to Syracuse, N.Y. to take on the Orange at 2 p.m.
