'Cats Win Holly Young Invitational With 3-1 Victory vs. Brown

Saturday, September 7

Durham, N.H.

12:30 PM

University of New Hampshire

4-0

Brown University

1-0

Brown

New Hampshire

Photo by: Vincent Dejana

'Cats Win Holly Young Invitational With 3-1 Victory vs. Brown

9/7/2019 8:16:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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Hannah Petke (MVP) and Katie Jablonski Named to All-Tournament Team

DURHAM, N.H. – Katie Jablonski (Elburn, Ill.) recorded a match-high 15 kills and five blocks to lead the University of New Hampshire volleyball team to Saturday afternoon's 3-1 victory against Brown University in the Holly Young Invitational at Lundholm Gym. The set scores were 22-25, 25-14, 25-15, 25-20.

UNH, Brown and Seattle tied for first place in the tournament with a 2-1 record. The Wildcats were declared champions by virtue of the best set winning percentage at .636 (7-11). Seattle was next at .571 (8-14), followed by Brown at .500 (7-7). Holy Cross went 0-3 but lost both of Saturday's matches in five sets.

Jablonski was joined on the Holly Young Invitational All-Tournament Team by MVP Hannah Petke (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.). Petke recorded 10 kills on a .348 hitting percentage and also contributed five blocks.

UP NEXT: New Hampshire will travel to Northeastern University to take on the Huskies on Tuesday, September 10 at 7 p.m. at the Cabot Center.

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TOP 'CATS

Emily Tanski (Plymouth, Mich.) recorded a match-high 27 digs.
Emma Patlovich (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Wren Macaulay (Lake Orion, Mich.) split the setting duties and orchestrated UNH's offense to a .281 hitting percentage. Macaulay tallied a match-high 23 assists and Patlovich had 22.
Abby Sullivan (Methuen, Mass.) led all players with seven blocks and also had seven kills.
Hannah Crist (Cicero, Ind.) tallied eight kills on a .800 hitting percentage; she also had six blocks.
Erin Hedrick (Montvale, N.J.) finished with eight kills and two blocks.

SET 1

Brown started off the match strong to take a 7-1 lead.
The Bears continued to add to their lead, growing the margin to 20-10.
UNH began to cut away at the deficit by scoring six straight points to make the score 20-16.
The 'Cats fought back to close within 23-22, but ultimately lost the first set 25-22.
Jablonski had four kills and two blocks in the set.

SET 2

The second set began with both teams trading points to advance the score to 10-10 with no team gaining an advantage greater than two.
Behind the service of Kennedi Smith (The Woodlands, Texas), UNH pulled away by scoring 10 straight points to make the score 22-11.
The Wildcats went on to win the set 25-14.
Tanski had seven digs in the set to lead the 'Cats.

SET 3

The teams continued to go back-and-forth at the beginning of the third set, keeping things tied up 6-6.
UNH went on to score 10 straight points – once again on Smith's serve – to take a 16-6 lead.
The Wildcats never let up and won the set 25-15.
There were six lead changes in the third set before UNH started their run led by Jablonski's four kills.

SET 4

The fourth set started off close, with the score being tied at 5-5.
Following the close start, the 'Cats scored six straight points – this time on Patlovich's serve – to build an 11-5 advantage.
The Bears kept it close, cutting the lead to just three at 19-16, but UNH kept the visitors at arm's length the rest of the way to close out the set and match, 25-20.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Tanski is No. 7 on the program's all-time digs leaderboard with 1,196. Ahead of her on the list is Jillian Ross at 1,207.
Smith, who became the 17^th UNH player to record 1,000 career point on Thursday, increased her total to 1,025.5 with six more Saturday vs. Brown.
New Hampshire improved to 3-1 at home.
The Wildcats have won four straight matches against Brown and seven of the last eight meetings.