YORK, PA – The York College volleyball team returned home to Wolf Gym to face the Lancaster Bible College Chargers. The Chargers and Spartans battled in a five set thriller with the visitors coming up victorious. Lancaster Bible won the match by scores of 20-25, 25-22, 27-25, 9-25, and 15-13.
The Chargers improves to 8-8 while the Spartans fall to 9-7.  
 
How It Happened
• The first set was back and forth with eight ties in the first 22 points of the game. York went on a 5-1 run to take a 15-12 lead. The Spartans maintained the lead between one and three points until York finished off the set with another 5-1 run to take a 25-20 set one win. The game clinching run was keyed by a pair of Morgan Nolte kills.
• The second set was another back and forth affair with neither team holding more than a two point lead until York led 10-7. York pushed the lead to four on four different occasions before the Chargers tied the set at 17 in the middle of a 7-1 run as they took a 21-18 lead. York clawed back to within two points but Riley Dodrer finished off the set with a kill to give the Chargers a 25-22 set two victory. The Chargers feasted on York's ten attack errors while LBC had just two attack miscues.
• The start of the third set was much like the first two as neither team could assert control early. The Chargers forged out to a 13-9 lead only to have the Spartans rip off a 7-1 run to take a 16-14 lead. Lancaster Bible tied the set at 18 on a Faith Helman service ace. York got back-to-back kills from Briyana Shepard to take a 20-18 lead. The Chargers scored four of the next five points to take a 22-21 lead. Madison Kauffmann tied the set at 22 with a kill. Dodrer put the Chargers back up by one but Kauffman and Megan Rizzi had back-to-back kills to put York up 24-23. The Chargers got a pair of Spartan service errors, an attack error and a Dodrer kill to earn a 27-25 win to seize control of the match. York had six service errors in the set which proved to be costly to the hosts.
• The Spartans raced out to a 10-4 lead as six different Spartans had kills during the run. York pushed the lead to 12 at 18-6 thanks to an 8-2 run. The Chargers scored three of the next four points before the Spartans closed out the set with five straight points. Sydney Wilber, Kauffmann, and Rizzi each had kills during the run to force a fifth and deciding set. York hit a blistering .409 in the set while they also had four service aces.
• The fifth set started with the Chargers taking a very early 5-2 lead. York tied it up at five on a Nolte service ace. Lancaster Bible got back-to-back points to take a 7-5 lead. York tied the set with two points of their own. The Chargers got a kill from Dodrer and a pair of service aces from Chloe King to take a 10-7 advantage. That was the start of a 6-0 run that gave LBC a 13-7 lead. The Spartans stormed back to score six of the next seven points of the set to make it 14-13. The Chargers won the match on a Spartan service error, 15-13.
 
Spartan Notes
The loss to the Chargers is the first in school history as York is now 4-1 against Lancaster Bible … York falls to 3-2 at home … the Spartans are 2-2 in five set matches … York has lost three of their last four … York had an advantage in attack percentage in the match as the Spartans hit .181 while LBC hit .069 … junior Megan Rizzi, who was named the MAC Commonwealth Player of the Week earlier today, had another big match as she had 18 kills and 18 digs with a .217 attack percentage … Madison Kauffmann also had a big match as she registered a career-highs with 10 kills and five block assists … Kauffmann also hit a career-high .348 in the match … senior Abby Diehl had 45 assists as she has 40 or more assists in six matches this year … Diehl also had three aces as she now has at least one ace in 14 of her 16 matches this year … sophomore Jackie Karcz recorded a career-high 13 digs in the match.
 
Up Next
The Spartans are now off until Tuesday, October 11 when they continue their season high five match home stand with a MAC Commonwealth contest against Eastern University. The match is slated for a 7:00 pm start.