ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Rockford University women's volleyball team went 0-2 in its triangular matches on Friday afternoon. It was a contested battle to open the day against St. Norbert. It started with a close 25-22 first set, but a rocky second set and a 25-20 third set ended the Regents opening match against their NACC opponent 3-0. It was a solid game from Della Crain however, she registered a team-high 11 kills, including her 1,000th career kill in the match. The second match of the day for the Regents was never really competitive, Rockford stayed with the Falcons of UW-River Falls for the beginning of each set, but collapsed in the later sets, turning in three straight scores of 25-15, 25-15, and 25-15.


St. Norbert 3 Rockford 0 (25-21, 25-12, 25-20)

• St. Norbert jumped out to an early lead at 8-3 until Rockford recorded three straight points on a kill by Alexis Brashaw and two-straight aces by Melody Moreno.
• The Regents continued to hang around, another series of three points pulling them within one at 11-10. Della Crain and Taylor Sagen each had a kill and Jessica Witkowski had a service ace.
• The Regents continued to pursue the Green Knights, but ultimately fell after being unable to take the lead, the first set ending 25-21 St. Norbert
• It was not a close second set for RU, falling behind 11-4.
• Rockford only managed to get the score to within 7 at 16-9, before a7-1 onslaught at 19-11 ended the set, earning St. Norbert its second set, 25-12.
•  The Regents gave up the first point of the second set but followed it up with four straight off of two attack errors, a service ace by Della Crain, and a kill by Nicole Eggers.
• RU ultimately gave up the lead at 6-7, which was part of a 6-point Green Knights run.
• Rockford responded immediately following with a five-point run of its own to pull the score to 12-11.
• The Regents traded blows with SNC until the 19-18 mark, when St. Norbert finally pulled away for five of the final seven points to win the third set and the match 25-20.

UW-River Falls 3 Rockford 0 (25-15, 25-15, 25-15)

• Rockford began the match on fire, kicking off match two with a 6-2 run. The main contributor being Nicole Eggers with a pair of kills.
• River Falls quickly worked back into the match, taking the lead and building it to 10-8.
• The Regents traded blows with the Falcons to a 16-14 score, before giving up eight unanswered points to make the score 24-14. Rockford captured one more point before the end of the set, UWRF taking the first set 25-15.
• Rockford pulled into the lead again for the second set at 6-3 with two kills by Melody Moreno headlining the run.
• River Falls took the lead over the next four points, but the Regents came back and took back the lead at 10-9.
• The two sides battled back and forth for the middle part of the set, but the Falcons made a huge run again late in the set with 9-straight points to easily take the second set 25-15.
• The third set began with a River Falls run early after a 2-1 Regents lead. The Falcons captured 16 of the next 18 points after that and Rockford never came close to tying or leading after that. River Falls took the final set easily by yet another score of 25-15 to take the third and final set point.

St. Norbert

• Della Crain earned her 1000th kill as part of her 11 total kills in the match, she also had an ace.
• Brynn Atwell finished with a team-high 13 digs.
• Nicole Eggers and Melody Moreno each recorded 8 kills.
• Jessica Witkowski tallied 18 assists for the Regents.

UW-River Falls

• Della Crain led the Regents on offense again with 8 more kills in the match.
• Brynn Atwell had 11 digs to lead Rockford.
• Nicole Eggers recorded 3 kills and a pair of blocks.
• Jessica Witkowski led in assists with 12.

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