Brooklyn, NY---The Brooklyn College women's volleyball team opened conference play in a big way on Tuesday at home as the Bulldogs swept the defending CUNYAC champs, John Jay, 3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-22) in a rematch of the 2025 CUNYAC Championship. Brooklyn improves to 2-4 overall with the win while the Bloodhounds go to 3-8. Next Up: Brooklyn returns to their non-conference slate at St. Joseph's Brooklyn on Thursday at 6pm.
Brooklyn jumped out to a 10-5 lead to start the match that included back-to-back kills put away by
Olive Carroll. The visitors didn't go away toward the end of the first set, cutting the BC lead to 21-19. However, back-to-back scores capped by an
Olivia Fan kill gave Brooklyn the room needed to close out the set on a
Saule Okeke-Ziburkus finish.
Trailing 7-2 to start the second set, the Bulldogs battled back thanks to a 5-0 run capped by a
Rose Kory service ace to tie the score. Clinging to a 22-21 advantage down the stretch, BC closed out the second set with three straight scores including the set-winning kill put away by
Malia Reyes.
With the score tied 17-17 in the third set, the Bulldogs made their push beginning with a four-score rally. John Jay trimmed the Brooklyn lead to 23-22 following three straight scores before the Bulldogs closed out the match on back-to-back Bloodhound errors.
Brooklyn was the more efficient hitting team on the evening finishing with a .111 average to the Bloodhounds' .063. The Bulldogs also finished with a 10-8 edge in service aces and 5-4 advantage in blocks.
Carroll led the way offensively finishing with 8 kills and three service aces. Okeke-Ziburkus put away 7 kills and came up with 10 digs. Kory set for a team-high 10 assists and also served up 3 aces. Fan finished with four blocks (2 solo) o the evening.
John Jay was led by Ansley Hobson's match-high 11 kills.
