Rachel Romansky named to all-Tournament Team

Stags freshmen Rachel Romansky has been named to the Colgate Classic All-Tournament Team after recording 91 assists and 14 kills her first 3 collegiate games.

Congrats to the first year player and hopefully this is only the beginning of good things to come. I was surprised that she got the starting nod over Lauren Balmert this season but she was ranked as one of the top 100 high school seniors.

Colgate 3 Fairfield 1

The Fairfield Stags (0-3) were defeated by the Colgate Raiders (2-0) yesterday in the Colgate Classic. The loss finishes a hard sweep aganist the Stags. Check out the Stags website for a complete recap and boxscore.

The Least You Should Know

-Fairfield still has never beaten Colgate as they are now 0-5 in program history aganist the Patriot League school.

-Alex Lopez still does not have a kill this year.

-Romansky had 4 kills, 26 assists, and 2 block assists to offset 2 errors.

- Brianna Dixion was the only Stag to reach double digits in kills with 10. She has reached at least that figure in every game so far.

- The Stags made 26 errors and now have 82 on the year.

This not the way that the Stags wanted to get their season started. Last year, they went 2-1 in their first three games albiet it was from easier competition. But this always happens for the Stags. They dominate the regular season but cannot seem to win in out of conference games. You wonder, how strong is the MAAC? The Stags finished the year 145th in the nation in RPI ranking and combined with Niagara they were the only two MAAC schools in the top 150. It just might be the strongest weak team beating up on other weak teams in a bad conference.

The Stags are only hitting .145 as a team and only have 2 players hitting over .300.

Stephanie Cruz has more kills than Alex Lopez.

Up Next:

The Stags will play in the Northern Colorado Classic. They will face South Dakota and Georgia on September 3rd.

Syracuse 3 Fairfield 1

The Syracuse Orange (1-0) defeated the Fairfield Stags (0-2) by two sets in the nightcap of the Colgate Classic. The Stags are now 0-2 all time aganist the Big East foe. For the full boxscore click here. For a recap click here.

Much better game for the Stags only committing 24 errors. Pokipala who hit 11 errors in the first game only misfired on 6 shots tonight. While having 14 kills.

Brianna Dixion once again led the team in kills with 15 for the second straight game. She did committ 6 errors, but this is what Fairfield needs from the sophomore.

Rachel Romansky looks like the real deal! She had 39 assists and 4 kills which gives her 10 kills and 66 assists through the first 2 games. Lauren Balmert, the setter it looks like she is replacing, only had 69 kills and 20 errors last year. Romansky only has 1 error!

Here is what I am afraid of. Alex Lopez is yet to have a kill since returning from injury that sidelined her all of last year. Hopefully she can get things going again. The Stags are going to need her.

Fairfield will play tomorrow night at 7 pm aganist the host Colgate.