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Albany, N.Y. – The Stony Brook volleyball team saw its seven-match winning streak come to an end in a 3-1 (17-25, 26-24, 25-21, 25-9) defeat at Albany Friday night. Redshirt junior Kathy Fletcher posted her third straight double-double on a match-high 18 kills and 12 digs. She added seven stuffs.

Redshirt senior Evann Slaughter tied a career-high with 10 blocks, all assisted, as Stony Brook (11-8, 2-1 America East) out-blocked Albany (5-11, 3-1), 15-11. Senior Taylor Gillie chimed in with eight stuffs.  

Redshirt junior Lo Hathaway led the match with 25 digs, and junior Nicole Vogel recorded a contest-best 40 assists and had seven digs.

Recap

• Stony Brook led, 20-16, late in the first set when Fletcher took a pass from Hathaway and hammered it home. Melissa Rigo followed with three straight kills to stretch the margin to eight, 24-16. The Great Danes briefly staved off defeat with a kill, but Fletcher put the stanza away with a smack of her own.
• Stony Brook trailed by as many as 10 three times in the second frame, including a 21-11 deficit. Kills by Rigo and Fletcher and a Great Danes miscue got SBU within seven, 21-14, but Albany scored the next two points for a nine-point advantage. Stony Brook came alive thereafter, using dominant performances by Fletcher and Slaughter to score eight straight points and slice the deficit to one, 23-22. During the gutsy run, Slaughter and Fletcher teamed up for three stuffs and scored two kills apiece. The home team scored a kill for a set-point opportunity, but Fletcher responded with a slam and then combined with Gillie for a stuff as the Seawolves—unbelievably—found themselves even with Albany, 24-24.  The Great Danes recovered and scored two straight points for the second-set victory.
• Albany pulled away late in the third set and jumped out to a large lead in the fourth set to seal the win.

By the Numbers

• Rigo recorded nine kills and 15 digs.
• Slaughter tallied seven kills.
• Freshman Dani Nizich tallied a season-high 12 digs.
• Junior Stephanie McFadden finished with three block assists.

News and Notes

• The season-high 15 blocks were the most for the Seawolves in a single match since they recorded 16 blocks at New Hampshire Oct. 12, 2007.
• Stony Brook’s seven-match winning streak was its third longest in Division I program history. The Seawolves won 12 straight in 2007 and eight straight in 2009.
• Slaughter’s 10 blocks tied Gillie (vs. Western Michigan, Sept. 20) for the most by a Seawolf this season.  
• Slaughter passed Cynthia Orengo for second in school history for block assists. Slaughter has tallied 252 combo-stuffs, and Orengo recorded 246 from 1997-00. Danielle MacKnight (2001-04) holds the record of 320 block assists.
•  Rigo has 981 kills for her career. With 19 more kills, she will become the ninth player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills.
• Hathaway moved into sixth on Stony Brook’s all-time digs ledger with 1,337 career digs. She surpassed Abby Egan, who registered 1,318 digs from 2002-04.

 

Up Next

Stony Brook will look to bounce back Saturday at Binghamton. Opening serve is slated for 4 p.m.