Brooklyn, NY----In front of an energetic crowd at the West Quad Center on Thursday, the Brooklyn College women's volleyball team pulled out a thrilling 3-2 (21-25, 25-22, 25-20, 14-25, 15-11) victory in the semifinals of the CUNYAC Championship Tournament over No. 3 seed John Jay (14-14) to advance to their third straight conference title match. The No. 2 seeded Bulldogs improve to 17-12 with the win and will take on No. 1 Hunter on Friday, November 4, in a rematch of the 2021 conference final, which Brooklyn won for the first time in 39 years. Tomorrow's conference championship is hosted by Baruch College at 6pm. Tickets are FREE and can be reserved
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The Rundown
- The visitors were up for the challenge as they took a 20-13 in the opening set before BC went on a six-score rally to clos ethe gap to a point. However, John Jay responded with four straight scores of their own before wrapping up the first set with a kill.
- Already leading 9-7 in the second set, Brooklyn went on a key three-score rally capped by kill put away by Tessa Winkleman. John Jay would hang around until the end of the set, but another late Winkleman kill helped Brooklyn tie the match.
- BC took a 2-1 after scoring the final six point of the third set ending with a Sydney Gdanski service ace. John Jay found a rhythm to start the fourth set and never looked back to force a deciding game.
- Falling behind 3-0 to start the fifth and final set, Brooklyn battled back with three straight scores. Brooklyn never trailed again and clinging to a 13-11 advantage, closed out the match on back-to-back kills put away by Winkleman and Ashley Fung respectively.
- Brooklyn finished with 53 kills to the Bloodhounds' 43 and had 9 blocks to John Jay's six. The Bloodhounds served up 13 aces to the Bulldogs' 7.
Leading the Bulldogs
- Winkleman put away a season-high 27 kills to go along with 21 digs.
- Fung finished with 11 kills and 16 digs.
- Gdanski set for a career-high 31 assists while serving up four aces.
- Aleah Rafat finished with a match-high 22 digs.
Leading John Jay
- Faith Harer finished with a team-high 14 kills and 19 digs.
- Reilly Catan put away nine kills and came up with 11 digs.
