Cori Dayton is 16 kills from achieving the 1,000-kill plateau in her career. |
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Charlotte Sweeps La Salle to Earn First A-10 Volleyball Win of Season
Sept. 28, 2007
Charlotte, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers used double-doubles from their senior pair of Cori Dayton and Alma Arroyo and 34 assists from fellow senior Eden Ramos to earn their first Atlantic 10 Conference victory of the season 3-0 (30-27, 30-21, 30-22) over the visiting La Salle Explorers on Friday night in Halton Arena. Charlotte snaps a five-match losing skid and improves to 9-7 overall, 1-2 in A-10 play. La Salle drops to 8-11 and 0-1 in league play.
The two teams took some time to feel one another out in game one. The back-and-forth opening frame never saw a lead of more than three points, with Charlotte finding its way to the win in the end. Dayton finished with eight kills in the first game, with a trio of Explorers garnering three kills each.
The Niners held La Salle to a .026 attack percentage in game two. The Explorers had eight kills and seven errors in the second game. Charlotte got the lead out to 10 points, at 20-10 and won by nine.
Game three saw the Explorers surge out of the gates, grabbing a 3-0 lead and hold the lead until a 6-all tie. Charlotte then scored seven of the next ten points and push ahead to the victory. The Explorers cooled off late in game three to finish with a .021 attack percentage (11 kills and 10 errors).
As a team, Charlotte finished with 71 digs, with four players getting into double digits. Junior liberro Carly Romberg led all players with 22 digs, with Dayton and Arroyo finishing with 15 each.
"We were happy to get back to playing aggressive team defense," said Niners head coach Chris Redding. "It was a focus in practice this week that we get back up to averaging 20 digs per game."
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Dayton had 17 kills to lead all players. She is now just 16 shy of becoming the 15th player in team history to hit the 1,000-kill career mark. Arroyo had 13 for Charlotte. Arroyo leads the Niners with nine double-doubles this season and Dayton has seven on the season.
La Salle was led by sophomore Rachel Stemper's 10 kills, with freshman liberro Kayla Beck and sophomore Danielle DiMarco into double digits in the digs department with 13 and 12, respectively. Setter Carly Conlon had 15 assists and Erin Sullivan adding nine.
Charlotte hosts Temple in an A-10 match on Sunday at 1 p.m..
