The Fairfield Stags (0-1) were defeated by the Rhode Island Rams (1-0) 3 sets to one in the opening game of the Colgate Classic. For the complete box score click here. The Stags are now 1-3 all-time aganist the Rams and 15-11 in season openers.
The Stags were absolutely dominated in the first set to put it very nicely. They were down as much as 10 when the score was 17-7. Romansky was the only Stag to play well with 2 kills and 3 assists without an error. Fellow freshmen Hayley Moyer had 3 errors in 3 attempts and as a team the Stags had 9 total.
Fairfield lost the fourth set 25-6! committing 9 errors and having about a 15 point losing streak. That is only the second time in 2 years the Stags could not score into the double digits in a set over the past two years. The other came September 5th against #7 Michigan where they only scored 9.
The only set they won came in the third set where they edged the Rams 25-23.
The Stags committed 32 errors in the afternoon game! Compared to Rhode Island's 12. Pokipala led the team with 11 of those errors followed by freshmen Hayley Moyer with 6. The Hawaii native had 129 errors last year the second worst on the team.
There were some good points. Brianna Dixion led the team with 15 kills (the 21st time in her career she finished with 10 or more) but the most important is that she only had 1 error!
Freshmen Rachel Romansky filled up the column today. She had 7 kills 25 assists and 7 digs!
The Stags will next play tonight at 7pm aganist the Syracuse Orange
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