Volleyball Defeated in CAA Tournament Championship Match to Charleston

Saturday, November 23

Towson, MD

4 PM

University of Delaware

20-7,15-3CAA

No. 1 Charleston

25-8,15-3CAA

Delaware

Col. of Charleston

Volleyball Defeated in CAA Tournament Championship Match to Charleston

11/23/2024 7:20:00 PM | Volleyball

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TOWSON, Md. - No. 2 seed University of Delaware volleyball was defeated by No. 1 Charleston in five sets (21-25, 25-22, 19-25, 25-17, 3-15) in the Championship Match of the CAA Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 23 at SECU Arena. The Blue Hens finish the season with an overall record of 20-7.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS

Kirah Johnson had a match-best 21 kills and hit .286 with four blocks.
Gha'Naye Whitfield-Moss recorded 13 kills with a .333 hitting percentage and three blocks.
Lily Rogers had 43 assists, three aces, three kills, and seven digs.
Savannah Seemans contributed seven kills, 12 digs, and two blocks.
Emily Chrysogelos had seven kills and an ace.
Cadence Nguyen posted a match-high 24 digs.
Hannah Wright finished with 10 digs and two aces.

HOW IT HAPPENED
FIRST SET

Delaware opened strong, racing to a 6-1 lead. Charleston cut the deficit to 7-5, but an ace by Johnson, two kills from Whitfield-Moss, and a kill by Gillens extended UD's lead to seven.
Charleston took its first lead at 20-19 and secured the set by scoring the final three points.
Nguyen had seven digs in the set.

SET TWO

Delaware called a timeout after Charleston took a 7-3 lead. UD responded with five-straight points, highlighted by two aces from Rogers and two kills from Chrysogelos, to take the lead.
Charleston went back up 14-12, and eventually 17-15. Delaware scored six-straight points to take a 24-19 lead. Johnson recorded three kills and a block during the run before the Blue Hens clinched the set.
Johnson had eight kills in the set while hitting .500, and Rogers had 11 assists. Delaware hit .378 as a team in the second.

SET THREE

The set remained tight, with neither team gaining more than a two-point lead until Charleston pulled ahead 15-12.
Delaware got back on track by scoring four of the next five points to tie the score at 16. Charleston scored the set's last five points and took a 2-1 lead.
Whitfield-Moss and Johnson each had five kills in the set, and Rogers had 11 assists. Nguyen had eight digs.

SET FOUR

Delaware erupted with a 5-0 run to begin the set and scored seven of the first eight points. Wright had two aces in the stretch and Johnson had three kills. A 4-0 run pushed Delaware's lead to 12-4.
UD closed out the set with three points in a row to force a fifth set.
Chrysogelos had five kills in the set, and Rogers had 12 assists.

SET FIVE

Charleston scored 12 of the final 13 points of the set and match.

MATCH NOTES

Johnson tied a Delaware CAA Championship Match record with 21 kills - also done by Katie Dennehy in 2008 and 2010. Her 21 kills was also her career-high in a game.
Johnson ended her career with a .306 hitting percentage, the fifth-best in program history.
Seemans concluded her career having played in every set of every match. She played in all 460 possible sets of her five-year career.
Nugyen tied her career high with 24 digs, previously achieved in the season opener against Michigan on Aug. 30. Her 24 digs were the second-most by a Delaware player in a CAA Tournament match, behind Stephanie Barry's 25 in 2007.
Wright ended her career with recording an ace in three-straight games, including three total aces in her two CAA Tournament matches.
Chrysogelos tied her career-high in kills with seven, last done on Oct. 13 against William & Mary.
Rogers and Johnson were named CAA All-Tournament recipients.
Delaware's .741 winning percentage this season was the sixth best in program history. It's the fourth time Delaware has recorded at least a .700 winning percentage in back-to-back seasons in program history (also done from 2009-2010, 2006-2007, and 1976-1977.

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