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St. John Fisher WVB Kaylene Noble and Lydia Fraser
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St. John Fisher SJF 0-1,0-0 Empire 8
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Winner Ithaca ITH 1-0,0-0 Liberty League
St. John Fisher SJF
0-1,0-0 Empire 8
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Final
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Ithaca ITH
1-0,0-0 Liberty League
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
St. John Fisher SJF 25 23 14 25 (1)
Ithaca ITH 23 25 25 27 (3)
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Winner St. John Fisher SJF 1-1,0-0 Empire 8
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Rochester (NY) ROC 0-1,0-0 UAA
Winner
St. John Fisher SJF
1-1,0-0 Empire 8
3
Final
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Rochester (NY) ROC
0-1,0-0 UAA
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
St. John Fisher SJF 25 26 26 (3)
Rochester (NY) ROC 23 24 24 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Mike Hogan, Athletics Communications Coordinator

Women's Volleyball Splits Season-Opening Matches In Bomber Invite

ITHACA, N.Y. – The St. John Fisher women's volleyball team opened the 2025 season by splitting a pair of matches in the Bomber Invitational on Friday, falling in four sets to host Ithaca before sweeping the University of Rochester. 

How It Happened: St. John Fisher 1, Ithaca 3 

  • The Cardinals scored four of the last five points in the first set to secure a 25-23 victory. Freshman Kalyna Dannenberg led Fisher in the opening frame, slamming five kills. 

  • Fisher trailed by as many as eight in the middle of the second set before rallying, using a 12-4 run to tie the Bombers at 22. The teams traded points before IC secured a 25-23 win with back-to-back kills. 

  • The Bombers got off to a 13-6 lead and kept their foot on the gas en route to a 25-14 victory in set No. 3. 

  • The Cardinals had Ithaca on the ropes, needing just one more point to secure the fourth set, but Ithaca ripped off four consecutive points to pull off a 27-25 win to end the match. The Cardinals and Bombers each held leads of at least four points in the set, with Fisher's largest lead being five (13-6). 

    Match Notes

  • Junior Kaylene Noble slammed a team-high 12 kills while hitting .250. Dannenberg finished the match with 11 kills.

  • Senior Ana Gutman amassed seven kills and hit .400. She also led the Cardinals with four total blocks. 

  • Senior setter Reilly Morrow had 31 assists. 

  • Senior libero Kiera Hartpence tallied 16 digs. 

How It Happened: St. John Fisher 3, UR 0

  • The Cardinals and Yellowjackets traded slim leads throughout the first set. Fisher finished off a 25-23 victory behind two kills from sophomore Lydia Fraser and one from Noble. 

  • In the second set, the Cardinals responded to an 8-3 Rochester start with a 7-0 run to take a two-point lead. Noble had two kills and Fraser had two service aces during that stretch. 

  • The hot hand all match, Noble slammed two kills at the end of the second set as Fisher turned a 24-23 deficit into a 26-24 win. 

  • The Cardinals pulled out another nail-biter in the third set, once again prevailing 26-24. After Rochester ripped off five straight points to erase a 24-19 deficit, Morrow and Noble recorded kills to complete the sweep for the Cardinals. 

    Match Notes 

  • Noble led the Cardinals with 14 kills while hitting .414. She also had a pair of service aces. 

  • Fraser and Dannenberg each slammed seven kills; Gutman had five and registered a .444 hitting percentage. 

  • Morrow had 22 assists, while sophomore Zofia Keogh dished out nine. 

Up Next

The Cardinals face John Carroll at 11 a.m. on Saturday to conclude their weekend in Ithaca.


 
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