SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College volleyball team picked up a four-set win (25-11, 20-25, 25-15, 26-24) over visiting Bard College on Saturday afternoon on the day Skidmore celebrated its five seniors. The Thoroughbreds later dropped their match against Ramapo (25-22, 25-21, 25-15) to close the tri-match and home schedule.
 

• Skidmore finishes the day 8-12 overall and improve to 2-4 in the Liberty League. With two conference matches remaining, the Thoroughbreds are in striking distance of earning a playoff berth.

 
Skidmore 3, Bard 1

• Bard was one point away from forcing a deciding fifth set when Skidmore brushed off a pair of set points on the way to scoring four in a row to close it out with a 26-24 win in the fourth. Senior Ella Harris led the way with two kills and a block assist. Classmate Jo Blanco closed it out with a service ace.
• Moments earlier, Bard usurped Skidmore's two-point lead, 22-20, with four points in a row aided by three Skidmore errors to get to set point.
• Following a dominant opening set for Skidmore, which saw the Thoroughbreds hit .400 as a squad, Bard tied it up in the second game. The Raptors took an early lead and after Skidmore made a push to tie it at eight, Bard held the lead the rest of the way.
• Skidmore bounced back in set three and made just three attacking errors for a .276 team swing percentage. The Thoroughbreds got into position to go up 2-1 thanks to a 9-2 mid-set run.
• The fourth set featured more tied scores (eight) and lead changes (five) than the previous three sets combined.
• Maya Stolarz posted an even dozen kills to lead Skidmore. She committed two errors for a .370 hitting percentage for the match. Stolarz also added three block assists.
• Blanco finished with nine kills with three aces and a team high 12 digs.
• Harris registered eight kills and four blocks, with one solo block.
• Sophomore Jazlin Chen led all players in the match with five blocks. Two of them were solo blocks.
• Junior Tiffany Flores registered 25 assists and senior Noa Berger had 15. Berger also paced Skidmore with four service aces. Ella Kretten and Blanco had three each.
• Right behind Blanco in digs was Athena Braverman, who had 11.
• Ryan Lum had 16 kills for Bard to lead all players.

 
Ramapo 3, Skidmore 0

• The first two sets were neck-and-neck down to the wire before the now 14-1 Roadrunners were able to pull off the wins.
• In the opener, Skidmore scored four unanswered points to pull to within one at 23-22. Ramapo snagged the game by scoring the next two on a Desiree Cruz Kill and a Skidmore attack error.
• Bard led in the second stanza by as many as nine points before Skidmore inched its way back into it. A late six-point Ramapo lead shrunk to two, 22-20. The teams traded points before a service error, one of seven on the match for Skidmore, set up set point for the visitors, and they cashed in immediately to go up 2-0.
• Ramapo then scored the first eight points of the third set and withstood a Thoroughbred push to pick up the sweep.
• For Skidmore, Harris and Stolarz shared the team lead with eight kills apiece. Senior Carolyn Scott had five kills.
• Harris also had Skidmore's lone solo block. Stolarz and Chen had two block assists apiece.
• Blanco and Braverman tallied 13 digs each.

 

• Before the match against Ramapo, Skidmore recognized its five seniors: Sophia Wittemyer, Carolyn Scott, Noa Berger, Ella Harris, and Jo Blanco.

 
NEXT UP: The Thoroughbreds will travel north next weekend for a league match against St. Lawrence and a non-conference tilt against Brockport.