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Niners Fall to East Carolina in Final Non-Conference Match
Nov. 15, 2005
Greenville, N.C. - Sophomore Alma Arroyo had 26 kills and 19 digs, but Charlotte volleyball fell to East Carolina, 3-1, on Tuesday night at Minges Coliseum. The 49ers took the opener, 30-28, but dropped the next three games 18-30, 27-30 and 27-30.
Charlotte falls to 17-15 this season with the loss. Former Conference USA rival East Carolina improved to 19-10 this season.
Arroyo went over the 20-kill mark for the seventh time this season, but her 26 on Tuesday night were the most for the outside hitter in the last 11 matches (since October 9). She hit a phenomenal .422, committing just seven errors in 45 attempts.
Alma added 19 digs, her second-highest total of the season. She had a career-best 23 digs in the 49ers last match, a 3-2 win over Fordham on November 4.
"In the first game we played really well," said head coach Lisa Marston. "But ECU is very strong this year, they really went after us. We just made a lot of weird errors, which may have come from not playing for 10 days. ECU did a good job of blocking us. We had eight more kills, but they picked up the points when it mattered."
In the match, Charlotte had 72 kills to 64 for East Carolina. But the Niners, who haven't played since that November 4 match against Fordham, committed 32 hitting errors and 10 service errors against ECU.
"Alma worked her tail off and had a great match," Marston said. "Lisa Newell started out rough but finished pretty well. Cori Dayton got to play quite a bit and did a nice job as well. We just need to get the kinks out before we go to play Dayton."
Newell had just three kills and five errors in the opening two games, but recovered to hit .579 in the final two games (13 kills against just two errors).
Cori Dayton had 8 kills on 16 attempts (.312 hitting). Jessica Oldenburg finished with 11 kills, while libero Carly Romberg had 14 digs.
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East Carolina prevailed despite no player reaching double figures in kills.
The match was the final non-conference tune-up for the 49ers before their inaugural Atlantic 10 Conference Championship this weekend. Fourth-seeded Charlotte takes on No. 1 Dayton in the Tournament's opening match on Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Rhode Island's Keaney Gymnasium.
The Flyers are 20-9 overall and have won 16 straight matches dating back to a 3-2 loss to Charlotte on September 23.
