SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College volleyball team rallied from a first-set defeat to knock out visiting Union College on Friday night 3-1 (22-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-23). It was the first Liberty League match for both teams.
 

• The Thoroughbreds are 7-5 after the victory, while the Garnet Chargers dip to 7-6.
• Skidmore featured five players with seven or more kills. Maya Stolarz led with 10, Carolyn Scott had nine, Rudi Reyes finished with eight, and Jazlin Chen and Jo Blanco put down seven apiece to round out the balanced attack.
• Skidmore had 48 kills as a bunch and finished with a .161 swing percentage.
• Union struggled to get going offensively after a fast start and finished with a .063 team hitting percentage with 37 attacking errors.
• Chen had a match high eight blocks, all block assists, to lead a fleet of six Skidmore blockers that had a 12-5 edge for the match.
• Ella Harris, who had five kills, also registered a solo block and six block assists.
• Scott added a pair of blocks to her well-rounded night.
• Noa Berger finished with 20 assists for the Thoroughbreds to go along with eight digs.
• Athena Braverman led the team with 14 digs.
• Union usurped the first set by scoring the final six points of the game and seven out of the last eight. The jolt was fueled by a Skidmore service error and three consecutive attack errors.
•  Skidmore withstood an early Union push in the second set and eventually went on a 10-2 run of its own to take a three-point lead, 18-15. Union cut the separation to two, 19-17, before Scott and Reyes kills sandwiched around a Union error gave the Thoroughbreds a 22-17 advantage. Stolarz and Harris put down kills to close it out and even the match at one.
• Skidmore grabbed an early lead in the third stanza and held on despite a mid-set 5-0 burst from the Chargers that briefly gave the visitors the lead.
• Reyes had a pair of kills as part of a Berger serve run to give Skidmore the lead back. It catapulted a 9-1 Thoroughbred spurt which was enough for the 2-1 lead.
• Game four featured the least amount of see-sawing, with just one lead change and one tie. Union only had the lead early, 4-2, before Berger took to the service line again and chipped in with two aces and Skidmore jolted in front with 10 unanswered points. Union trimmed the deficit to three, on three different occasions, until it survived seven straight match points to get to within one of tying it. Scott put an end to it with her ninth and final kill.
• NEXT UP: Skidmore will go for the weekend sweep on Saturday at 3 p.m. against Vassar.