KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The Kutztown University women's volleyball team took the first set at East Stroudsburg on Tuesday night at Koehler Fieldhouse before falling to the Warriors in four sets (25-23, 13-25, 19-25, 16-25) in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference action.
 
Brittney Moyer (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain (Lock Haven)) finished one kill shy of her sixth 20+ kill performance of the year, leading the match with 19 on .228 hitting and adding 11 digs for her 16th double-double of the season. She moved into eighth in the programs annals for kills in a single-season as she finished the match with 376, two shy of seventh place.
 
Anna Conti (Grove City, Ohio/Grove City) and Niki Carpenter (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion Area) also had match-highs. Conti posted 31 assists just one match after moving into second in program history in the statistical category, while Carpenter's five total blocks tied a season-high for a match that did not go five sets.

Taylor Brown (Dillsburg, Pa./Northern) added four blocks, which was one shy of a season-best.  
 
Tori Wakelee (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) led the team with 12 digs and was second with six kills. Madison Brake (Reynoldsburg, Ohio/Bishop Hartley) finished one dig shy of Wakelee's team-high, adding 11.
 
For East Stroudsburg, Desiree Claxton was the star after she finished one kill shy of Moyer's match-high while also leading the match with 20 digs. Jasmine Williams added 11 kills on .579 hitting and Rosa Veliky had 16 digs.
 
After hitting .194 in the first, ESU swung at least .314 in each of the final three sets en route to finishing the match with a .306 hitting percentage. The Warriors had a 58-36 advantage in kills and held KU to .091 hitting.
 
Despite ten ties, Kutztown did not take it first lead in the first set until it went up 17-16. The Golden Bears were also leading 21-19 and 23-21 before East Stroudsburg came back to tie both times. With the score 23-23, a service error gave KU a set point, which it converted when Carpenter and Brown combined for a block.
 
Back-to-back kills by Moyer and Wakelee then put KU up as many as three, 5-2, early in the second, but East Stroudsburg took six of the next seven points to go up 8-6 and the Warriors would not look back. The Maroon and Gold pulled within one on three separate occasions with kills from Carpenter, Wakelee and Moyer, the latter making it 9-10, but each time ESU held off the charge and it would eventually score the final nine points of the set.
 
After three ties early in the third, ESU used a run of three straight points to break a 4-4 deadlock and would go on to lead throughout the remainder of the set. Three times Kutztown got as close as one, including when a Wakelee kill made it 10-11, but the Warriors had an answer with the next three points.
 
East Stroudsburg then broke yet another 4-4 tie in emphatic fashion in the fourth, as four consecutive points began an 8-1 run to help the Warriors pull away for the victory.
 
Kutztown ends its season this weekend with two matches, the first of which comes on Friday, Nov. 11 at Cheyney at 7 p.m.