Madison, NJ----The Brooklyn College women's volleyball picked up a non-conference split on the road Saturday at a trimatch hosted by FDU-Florham.  BC avenged a loss earlier in the season to Rutgers-Newark, sweeping the Scarlet Raiders this time around, 3-0 (27-25, 25-19, 26-24) before dropping a hard-fought 3-2 (19-25, 25-21, 25-18, 19-25, 10-15) loss to the host.  Brooklyn moved to 11-14 overall by the end of the day.  Next Up: Brooklyn wraps up conference play at home on Senior Night against Medgar Evers on Tuesday, November 4, at 6pm. 

Match 1: Brooklyn- 3, Rutgers-Newark- 0

Brooklyn set the tone early by scoring the first four points of the match highlighted by an Olivia Fan kill.  RUN would respond and the teams would battle for the remainder of the opening set.  Brooklyn won the opening set on a pair of Scarlet Raider errors after coming back from a 22-19 deficit.  

Trailing 16-14 in the second set, the Bulldogs rallied for seven straight scores that included three straight kills.  BC closed out the set on three scores sparked by a kill put away by Saule Okeke-Ziburkus.  

Brooklyn would trail 12-6 in the third set  before tying it up with a 6-0 run that included back-to-back kills put away by Fan and Olive Carroll.  With the score tied 24-24, Danielle Fuxman would give BC a 25-24 advantage before Carroll ended the match with her sixth kill.  

Ella Snobar led the way offensively for Brooklyn, finishing 11 kills to go along with three blocks.  Okeke-Ziburkus added 10 kills while coming up with 16 digs.  Senior libero, Ruti Joshi, finished with a match-high 24 digs, surpassing 1000 digs for her career in the process.  

Match 2: Brooklyn- 2, FDU-Florham- 3

After the Devils took the first set, the Bulldogs bounced back to take a 7-1 lead in the early stages of the second set.  The Bulldogs took a commanding 20-12 lead following back-to-back Joshi aces before Fuxman tied the match, 1-1, on a kill.  

BC used a four-score run capped by an Okeke-Ziburkus kill to take a 19-15 advantage in the third set.  Brooklyn would take a 2-1 lead in the match following a Carroll kill.  However, the Devils would force a deciding set thanks in part to a seven-score rally halfway through the fourth set.  

Brooklyn came back from being down 7-1 following a 5-0 run to cut the Devils' lead down to 7-6.  However, the Devils responded with five unanswered scores of their own to extend their lead and eventually close out the match.  

Okeke-Ziburkus led the way offensively for BC with a team-high 17 kills.  Snobar added 14 kills to her afternoon.  Joshi added 35 digs to her milestone day.