BALTIMORE -- Heidi Jutsum had nine
kills and a solo block and fellow seniors Samantha Thomson and
Nina Mullenhard added 14 and 10 digs, respectively, in their final
appearances for Haverford.
Setter Emily Hinchcliff provided 24
assists and two service aces and sophomore classmate Laura Nuyen
had six kills for the Fords (18-9).
Gettysburg (19-12) will meet fourth-seed
Franklin & Marshall (20-8) in the conference final. The Diplomats
upset top-seed and tournament host Johns Hopkins (23-6) in Saturday's
second semifinal, 3-1.
CARLISLE -- Nina Mullenhard (14 digs,
two blocks) and Laura Nuyen (20 digs, two service aces) each recorded
13 kills, and Dana Mullenhard added 11 kills, four assists, three
aces and three blocks as Haverford rallied from a game down to
defeat Centennial Conference host Dickinson (7-16, 2-8).
Samantha Thomson recorded 27 digs and
Emily Hinchcliff added 41 assists, 14 digs and a solo block for
the Fords (18-8, 8-2). Heidi Jutsum had a team-high five blocks,
followed by three each from Nuyen and K'Lynn Solt.
Third-seeded Haverford will face second-seeded
Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference semifinals Saturday at
top-seeded Johns Hopkins.
SWARTHMORE -- Heidi Jutsum, Nina Mullenhard,
Laura Nuyen and Dana Mullenhard recorded 14, 13, 13 and 12 kills,
respectively, as Haverford defeated host Swarthmore (13-14, 6-4)
Thursday evening.
The win by the Fords (17-8, 7-2) clinches
their sixth straight Centennial Conference playoff appearance.
Emily Hinchcliff handed out 50 assists
and Samantha Thomson tied Nina Mullenhard for the team-high with
26 digs. Jutsum, Nuyen and K'Lynn Solt each had two blocks, while
Hinchcliff and Thomson each recorded three service aces to Nuyen's
two.
HAVERFORD -- Nina Mullenhard (17 digs,
three blocks, two service aces), Laura Nuyen (13 digs) and Dana
Mullenhard (three aces) recorded 15, 12 and 10 kills, respectively,
in the Fords' five-game nightcap of Saturday's tri-match at the
GIAC Gooding Arena.
Emily Hinchcliff (50 assists) and Samantha
Thomson (29 digs) recorded team-highs for the Fords (16-8) in
the non-conference finale.
HAVERFORD -- Laura Nuyen recorded 20
kills and Heidi Jutsum (six blocks) and Dana Mullenhard (five
service aces) added 11 kills each as host Haverford won the first
athletic contest staged in the new Calvin J. Gooding '84 Arena
of the Douglas B. Gardner '83 Integrated Athletic Center Saturday
afternoon.
The Fords (16-7, 6-2) returned from
the brink of match point in Game 4, then rallied from early deficits
in the last game to win on Jutsum's match-clinching kill at the
net. Nina Mullenhard and K'Lynn Solt had 10 kills apiece and Emily
Hinchcliff provided 46 assists for the Fords (16-7, 6-2). Jutsum,
Nina Mullenhard, Nuyen and Samantha Thomson (HC five-game-record
48 digs) each served up two aces, while Hinchcliff, Dana Mullenhard,
Nuyen and Solt each posted two blocks.
The win over the Green Terror (9-15,
5-3) breaks a tie for fourth-place in the Centennial Conference
and leaves Haverford just a half-game behind Franklin & Marshall
(14-4, 7-2) and Gettysburg (14-9, 7-2) for second-place behind
frontrunner Johns Hopkins (20-5, 6-3).
10/19/05 Haverford 3, Bryn Mawr 0
(30-14, 30-16, 30-25)
HAVERFORD -- K'Lynn Solt had eight
kills and one block and Emily Hinchcliff added 35 assists, two
service aces and six digs as Haverford (15-7, 5-2) rolled over
Centennial Conference visitor Bryn Mawr (5-15, 1-6) Wednesday
night.
Laura Nuyen, Dana Mullenhard, Nina
Mullenhard and Iris Early each had seven kills, while Samantha
Thomson recorded team-highs of nine digs and five aces for the
Fords (15-7, 5-2).
HAVERFORD -- Despite a furious comeback
from two games down, Haverford fell in five to Centennial Conference
visitor Johns Hopkins (19-5, 5-1) Saturday.
The Fords (14-7, 4-2) played without
senior kills leader Heidi Jutsum, who was unable to return in
time for the match from a relief trip to Guatemala, where she
went on her own during Haverford's week-long Fall Break.
10/8/05 Seven
Sisters Tournament at Swarthmore
Smith 3, Haverford
0 (30-24, 30-26, 30-21)
Haverford 3, Bryn Mawr 0 (33-31, 30-28, 30-21)
Haverford 3, Mount Holyoke 0 (30-15, 30-23, 30-28)
SWARTHMORE -- Lisa Perkins led Haverford
with 10 kills and five service aces in Sunday's fifth-place match
against Mount Holyoke. Nina Mullenhard had a team-high 17 digs,
four aces and a solo block, while Heidi Jutsum (seven kills),
Emily Hinchcliff (28 assists) and all-tournament selection Samantha
Thomson (15 digs) played well in the win. Blocks were recorded
by K'Lynn Solt, Hinchcliff and Iris Early.
In Saturday's opening loss to eventual
champion Smith (14-3), Jutsum recorded a block and 14 kills, including
the 1000th kill of her career. Emily Hinchcliff posted a service
ace and 29 assists, while Thomson had 20 digs. In the Bryn Mawr
sweep, Dana Mullenhard and K'Lynn Solt had 14 and eight kills,
respectively. Hinchcliff had 39 assists, Nina Mullenhard 15 digs
and Thomson three aces.
10/5/05 Haverford 3, Washington (Md.)
0 (30-21, 30-24, 30-17)
CHESTERTOWN, Md. -- Heidi Jutsum and
Laura Nuyen each had 13 kills and Emily Hinchcliff recorded 38
assists, 12 digs and three aces as Haverford regained a share
of first-place in the Centennial Conference with a sweep of Washington
(7-12, 0-3) Wednesday evening.
Samantha Thomson (25 digs), Nina Mullenhard
(six aces) and K'Lynn Solt (solo block) also had good outings
for the Fords (12-5, 4-1), who are now in a three-way tie for
first-place with Franklin & Marshall (11-3, 4-1) and McDaniel
(8-7, 4-1).
HAVERFORD -- Laura Nuyen had 15 kills,
10 digs, five aces and three blocks, but host Haverford was joined
atop the Centennial Conference standings by Gettysburg (10-7,
3-1) in a close match Saturday.
Heidi Jutsum added 11 kills and three
blocks, Nina Mullenard (two aces) and Dana Mullenhard (six assists,
two aces, three blocks) each had 10 kills for the Fords (11-5,
3-1). Emily Hinchcliff had 42 assists, 11 digs and a block to
go with a team-high of 22 digs by Samantha Thomson and 11 by Jordan
Thompson. Four of K'Lynn Solt's team-high six blocks were unassisted.
HAVERFORD Reigning Centennial
Conference volleyball player of the week Nina Mullenhard and her
sister Dana Mullenhard had 12 kills each and 10 aces combined
as host Haverford rallied from a game down against Muhlenberg
(8-7, 1-1) Wednesday night.
The win by the first-place Fords (11-4,
3-0) broke a tie in the loss column between the last two unbeaten
teams in the 11-member conference.
K’Lynn Solt had seven solo blocks
and tied a Haverford four-game record of nine total blocks set
by Anne Suskind against Bryn Mawr on Oct. 18, 1999. Solt’s
total was one shy of the Fords’ all-time record of 10 blocks
set by Jelyn Meyer in a five-game match versus Elizabethtown on
Sept. 13, 2002.
Emily Hinchcliff (45 assists), Samantha
Thomson (19 digs), Laura Nuyen (11 digs) and Heidi Jutsum (solo
block) also had big nights for the Fords.
LANCASTER -- Heidi Jutsum (three blocks)
and Laura Nuyen recorded 14 kills each and Nina Mullenhard (14
digs) added 13 kills as Haverford stunned host F&M in a match
of unbeaten Centennial Conference teams Thursday evening.
The Diplomats (8-2, 2-1) had defeated
the Fords in three straight games Saturday at the Lebanon Valley
Invitational, and prior to Thursday's loss, had not been beaten
at home by Haverford in more than a decade.
Emily Hinchcliff had 50 assists and
19 digs, and Samantha Thomson 24 digs and a service ace for the
Fords (10-4, 2-0). K'Lynn Solt and Dana Mullenhard (ace) tied
for the team-high with four blocks apiece.
COLLEGEVILLE -- Senior Nina Mullenhard
had 11 kills, 11 digs and three blocks at Haverford won its Centennial
Conference opener Tuesday night at Ursinus.
Heidi Jutsum added nine kills and Samantha
Thomson had team-highs of 18 digs and three aces for the Fords
(9-4, 1-0). Emily Hinchcliff posted 11 digs and 25 assists, while
K'Lynn Solt joined Mullenhard with three blocks including two
solos.
Haverford travels to Lancaster Thursday
evening to meet Franklin & Marshall for the second time in
a week. The Fords lost a close, 30-23, 30-28, 30-28 non-conference
decision to the Diplomats Saturday afternoon at the Lebanon Valley
Invitational.
ANNVILLE -- Heidi Jutsum had 14 kills
and Laura Nuyen added 10 kills, 12 digs and two aces in the Fords'
sweep of Neumann. Emily Hinchcliff had 38 aces and two aces, K'Lynn
Solt five aces and two blocks and Samantha Thomson 23 digs in
the win.
In a non-Centennial versus F&M,
Nina Mullenhard had a double-double of 12 kills and 10 digs while
Hinchcliff had 34 assists and 12 digs and Thomson 15 digs for
the Fords (8-4).
9/16/05 Lebanon Valley Invitational
First Round
Haverford 3, Penn State-Altoona 2 (26-30, 29-31, 30-27, 32-30,
15-10)
ANNVILLE -- Laura Nuyen recorded 22
kills, three aces and two blocks, and Heidi Jutsum added 12 kills
and six blocks (two solo) Friday night as Haverford rallied to
win from two games down for the second time this season.
Nina Mullenhard had 11 kills, 16 digs
and two blocks, and she joined Samantha Thomson (25 digs) and
K'Lynn Solt in posting two aces. Emily Hinchcliff provided 49
assists and Dana Mullenhard tied Nuyen with a team-high three
aces for the Fords (7-3).
Haverford will complete pool play Saturday
with matches against Neumann and Franklin & Marshall. No championship
rounds will be held, as the tournament was delayed 2-1/2 hours
Friday night by a power outage at Lebanon Valley's Lynch Gymnasium.
CLARKS SUMMIT -- Dana Mullenhard was
the Fords' leader in the opening win versus Neumann with 18 kills,
and her sister Nina Mullenhard added 13 kills, 15 digs and four
aces in the second round win over host BBC Saturday.
Heidi Jutsum had 14, 12 and 18 kills
in the respective matches, saving her high to go with three blocks
in the championship loss to Lebanon Valley. Laura Nuyen (11, 12,
11) also had double-figure kills in all three matches and 15 digs
against the Flying Dutchwomen. Emily Hinchcliff had a big day
as well, with 43 assists, 13 digs and four aces in the opener,
48 assists and six aces in the middle match, and 51 assists and
16 digs in the final. Samantha Thomson had respective dig totals
of 26, 21 and 15, while K'Lynn Solt had 10 total blocks in the
final two matches for Haverford (6-3).
9/8/05 Haverford 3, Albright 0
HAVERFORD -- K'Lynn Solt, Heidi Jutsum
(three blocks) and Nina Mullenhard (two blocks) recorded 11, nine
and eight kills, respectively, as host Haverford improved to 4-2
with its non-conference win over Albright (1-4) Wednesday evening.
Emily Hinchcliff recorded 40 assists
and five aces, while Samantha Thomson (26 digs) and Dana Mullenhard
(four aces) also had big nights for the Fords.
HAVERFORD -- Senior Heidi Jutsum recorded
12 kills and classmate Nina Mullenhard added 10 kills and five
aces as host Fords (3-2) used 13 different players in blanking
Alfred in Sunday's Haverford Invitational fifth-place match.
Senior libero Samantha Thomson had
22 of her 39 kills on the day in the final and sophomore setter
Emily Hinchcliff added 35 assists and six service aces to the
winning effort. In the morning, sophs Dana Mullenhard (eight kills),
K'Lynn Solt (four blocks) and Hinchcliff (27 assists) were the
Fords' statistical leaders against eventual third-place finisher
Susquehanna.
All four Pool A teams including tourney
champion #15 Concordia of Minnesota (4-0), Susquehanna and Haverford
overwhelmed their respective Pool B opponents in the final round
Sunday afternoon. Setter Jill Hance of Concordia was named the
tournament's Most Valuable Player, and she was joined on the all-tourney
team by by Haverford's Dana Mullenhard and middle hitters Becca
Shane (Concordia), Alex Cann (Arcadia), Julia Tarioski (Neumann)
and Beth Sanger (Alfred) and outside hitter Erin Keefe (Arcadia).
HAVERFORD -- Haverford sophomores Laura
Nuyen (team-high 13 kills), Dana Mullenhard (11 kills, five aces),
Emily Hinchcliff (36 assists) and K'Lynn Solt (three blocks) led
the way in the Fords' opening sweep of Catholic.
Mullenhard had 11 kills, Hinchcliff
27 assists and an ace, and Samantha Thomson 24 of her 40 digs
on the day against tourney favorite Concordia (Minn.), ranked
15th in the preseason Division III coaches' poll.
The Fords (2-1) next face Susquehanna
to determine which team will meet Sunday morning's Arcadia-Neumann
loser in an afternoon third-place match.
9/1/05 Haverford 3, Richard Stockton
2
HAVERFORD -- Haverford sophomore Laura
Nuyen recorded 12 of her team-high 14 kills in the last three
games as the Fords (1-0) ralled for a 21-30, 23-30, 30-27, 30-28,
16-14 win over the visiting Ospreys (0-1) Thursday night.
Senior Nina Mullenhard had all nine
of her kills in the final three games, while classmate Heidi Jutsum
spread her 10 kills over the entire match. Soph Emily Hinchcliff
had 47 assists and 19 digs for the hosts, while senior Samantha
Thomson (29 digs), soph Dana Mullenhard (3 aces) and frosh Lisa
Perkins (3 aces) also had big nights for the Fords.
The Fords host the eight-team Haverford
Invitational tournament this Saturday and Sunday at Alumni Field
House.
