Julia Crilly	Bailey Woods

Box Score (Scranton-Christopher Newport)
Box Score (Scranton-Juniata)

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The University of Scranton volleyball team faced two more nationally-ranked teams at the Christopher Newport Invitational today.

And the results turned out to be the same, as the Royals dropped a 3-1 decision to 19th-ranked Christopher Newport and lost 3-0 to seventh-ranked and Landmark Conference rival Juniata College.  Friday evening, Scranton lost to 15th-ranked Eastern and 17th-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Despite the losses, senior outside hitterJulia Crilly (Rochester, NY/Aquinas Institute) reached another personal milestone, finishing with 11 digs today to go over the 1,000 mark in her career. After after recording the 1,000th kill of her career in last Wednesday’s match against Muhlenberg, Crilly is now one of only six players in Scranton history with more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career.

Today, she had 11 kills and six digs against Christopher Newport and four kills and five digs against Juniata.

The Royals, now 5-16, got another solid performance from sophomore middle hitter Rachael Cisto (Oxford, Conn./Sacred Heart Academy), who had six kills and five blocks against Christopher Newport and five blocks against Juniata.  Freshman setter Bailey Woods (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) also provide a spark for Scranton, finishing with 25 assists and 11 digs against Christopher Newport.

Scranton will travel to Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, next weekend for the first round of round-robin play in the Landmark Conference.  The Royals meet Juniata on Saturday, October 5, at 1:00 p.m. and Moravian College later that evening at 6:00 p.m.

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