Crilly, McFadden, Woods Lead Royals To Scranton Invitational Tournament Title On Saturday

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Marissa Every	Julia Crilly

Jenell McFadden	Juli Woods

Lizzy Zimmermann	Kelly Nolan

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SCRANTON, Pa.—The University of Scranton volleyball team downed Keystone College, 3-0, and Pitt-Bradford, 3-1, Saturday at the Long Center to win the Scranton Invitational for the first time since 2008 and for the third time since 1998.

And once again, it turned out to be sophomore outside hitter Julia Crilly (Rochester, NY/Aquinas Institute) who provided much of the heroics. She had 20 kills and 21 digs—her third ‘double-double’ of the tournament and her fifth of the season—in the tournament-clinching victory over 2010 champion Pitt-Bradford as the Royals remained undefeated and improved to 9-0 on the season.

For her efforts, Crilly was named the tournament’s most valuable player (MVP). Joining her as all-tournament selections from Scranton were senior outside hitter Jenell McFadden (Springfield, Pa./Merion Mercy Academy), who had 15 kills and 11 digs against Pitt-Bradford, and senior setter Juli Woods (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven), who had 25 assists today to bring her career total to 1673, fifth on the Royals’ all-time list.

Scranton, which lost only one set all weekend and only two in nine matches today, received five kills apiece from freshman Lizzy Zimmermann (Livingston, NJ/Livingston), junior Kelly Nolan (Pearl River, NY/Albertus Magnus), and Crilly in this morning’s win over Keystone.

Woods and senior setter Emily Keim (Bethelehem, Pa./Liberty) combined for 44 of the team’s 48 assists in the win over Pitt-Bradford.

Senior libero Marissa Every (East Norriton, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph) finished with 16 digs total to bring her career total to 1642. She is now 31 shy of surpassing Jacqueline Pisano (1672, 2005-2008) as the Royals’ all-time leader.

Scranton will return to action this Tuesday, September 11, against Oneonta State University beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Long Center.

Also earning all-tournament honors today were Lauren Hogue of Pitt-Bradford, Rachel Tollett of Marywood University, and Casey Bohan of Wilkes University.