Volleyball Falls at ECU

Friday, October 8

Greenville, N.C.

6:00 PM

Temple University

4-12,0-5AAC

ECU

7-8,3-3AAC

Temple

East Carolina

Photo by: Elita Odartei

Volleyball Falls at ECU

10.8.21 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

GREENVILLE, N.C. - The Temple volleyball team (4-12, 0-5 AAC) dropped its sixth-straight match Friday afternoon with a 3-0 loss at ECU (7-8, 3-3 AAC).

How It Happened
> The first set started out tight, with neither team finding more than three points of separation.
> Temple made back-to-back blocks followed by a Pirate attacking error and an ace from Katerina Papazoglou to take a 15-11 lead.
> ECU scored the next six of seven, keeping it even through the next four points before the Pirates ran away with the set and sealed the win, 25-21.
> The Pirates jumped ahead early in the second set, taking a 6-3 lead before the Owls were able to take a 7-6 lead on a Magdalena Rogalska kill.
> The teams kept it even until the end of the set, trading points until ECU took a 20-17 lead and won the set 25-19.
> ECU opened the third set strong, going up by as much as seven (15-8) mid-way through the set.
> The Pirates took a 21-12 lead and never looked back, winning the set 25-16 to sweep the match.

Quotable: Head Coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam
> "We have to do a better job of staying committed to being more disciplined, following the game plan, and executing. We still have a ton of conference matches to play and we're not going to give up. The players know that we're all in this together, we just need to work on finding solutions to be more successful and get us over this hump."

Individual Highlights
> Miray Bolukbasi led the team in kills (eight) for the second-straight match, while Falanika Danielson had a team-leading 11 digs.
> Kayla Spells posted a team-leading three blocks.
> Rogalska set a career-high three kills and 19 assists to lead the team.

Up Next
> Temple will close out its weekend road trip at Cincinnati on Sunday.