FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Christopher Newport University's volleyball team will begin a stretch of four consecutive road matches in Fredericksburg Wednesday night against the University of Mary Washington.
This will be the 51
st match in the rivalry, which goes back to 1979. The Eagles lead the series 30-20, but the Captains earned a season sweep in 2024.
Mary Washington, a fellow member of the Coast-to-Conference, has 4-13 record after losing a pair of Saturday matches against No. 11 Washington & Lee and Gettysburg College.
For the Captains (9-6), junior
Samantha Dorn is coming off a prolific four-match stretch in which she had 40 kills with a .333 hitting percentage. Also in that span, freshmen
Emmy Carpenedo had 35 kills (.259) and
Fielding Croft averaged 9.25 assists per set while piling up 111 total.
Notes:
- Wednesday night's match will be a homecoming for sophomore Carley Coghill, who played at Massaponax High in Fredericksburg ...
- With eleven more blocks, senior middle blocker Alyssa Dozier will catch Oksana Boukhtina for fourth all-time with 428 career blocks. She currently stands 5th on CNU's all-time list with 417...
- CNU coach Lindsay Birch reached a milestone last weekend by winning her 650th career match …
- Junior Simara Alexander had a career-high four blocks in a three-set win over Haverford last weekend ...
- Croft and libero Maddie Hanes have played in all 52 of the Captains' sets this season. …
