VILLANOVA, Pa. – The Villanova Wildcats completed off its weekend with a defeat, struggling a five-set loss (25-15, 24-26, 25-23, 18-25, 8-15) to the Providence Friars at Jake Nevin Field House on Saturday.
Madeline Barber and Kiera Booth led the best way for Villanova (11-7, 2-4 BIG EAST) with 14 kills every, which tied a profession excessive for Barber. Abby Harrell and Skylar Gerhardt every added 13 terminations for the Wildcats.
Andrea Campos put up a match-high 45 assists, Taryn Whittingham contributed 14 digs for a excessive amongst all contributors and Riley Homer led the match with six blocks.
After the groups traded scores by way of the primary 14 factors of the opening body, it was all Wildcats as separate 5-0 and 7-1 runs allowed Villanova to cruise to a double-digit victory because of 17 kills within the set from six completely different gamers.
The second stanza was a fair matchup with a tie at 10-10, however a 6-1 Providence run created a ways earlier than a 6-2 string from the Wildcats made it a tie at 17-all. It was extra back-and-forth motion up by way of 24-24 when PC took two straight factors to seize the body.
Another evenly matched third interval was on faucet, because the ‘Cats and Friars traded runs with 11 ties and 5 lead adjustments en route to a different 23-23 impasse. The Wildcats strung a pair of factors along with a kill from every of the beginning middles, delivering a bonus of two units to none.
Providence took the primary three factors of the fourth set and didn’t look again, main by as many as eight on the best way to a 25-18 victory to pressure a fifth.
Villanova led early within the fifth, however Providence tied it at five-all and proceeded to make use of a 4-0 stretch to make the rating 9-5 earlier than a VU timeout. PC took each factors after that timeout to pressure one other Wildcat pause, trailing by six. The Friars gained the race to fifteen, taking the match in 5 units to offer Villanova a cut up on the weekend.
UP NEXT: The Wildcats have a sophisticated week throughout VU’s fall break, touring to Georgetown on Wednesday earlier than a go to to Omaha for a match in opposition to Creighton on Sunday afternoon.
