Brooklyn, NY----The Brooklyn College women's volleyball team is heading back to the CUNYAC Championship! BC rolled to a 3-0 (25-14, 25-12, 25-20) sweep of John Jay College in the conference tournament semifinals on Wednesday. Entering the tournament as the top seed, Brooklyn improves to 15-12 overall with the win, while the No. 4 Bloodhounds close out their season with a 7-16 mark. The Bulldogs await the winner of No. 2 Baruch and No. 3 Hunter in the other semifinal game tonight, for a showdown in the finals at Hunter College on Friday at 6:00 pm.  

Despite falling behind 4-1 at the start of the match, the Bulldogs roared back thanks to a 7-0 run capped by an Aleah Rafat service ace. After the Bloodhounds tied the first set 8-8, the Bulldogs went on a debilitating eight-score rally. Rafat ended the first set with one of her match-high 9 kills. 

The Bulldogs finished with a .169 hitting percentage to John Jay's -.009.  

Brooklyn cruised in the second set; they closed it out with a five-score rally capped by a kill put away by freshman outside hitter Sydney Gdanski.  

The Bulldogs were up 22-13 in the third set, but John Jay didn't go down without a fight; they cut the home team's lead down to 22-18. Brooklyn would regroup and sophomore outside hitter Ashley Fung ended the match on a kill.  

Brooklyn senior setter Ezri Shor finished the night with a match-high 22 assists. Freshman libero Zoey Van Vleet lead Brooklyn on the ground with a match-high 15 digs. 

John Jay was paced by Faith Harer and Johnelle Pierre, putting away 5 kills each for the Bloodhounds.