Tigers take down Carabins 3-1
(Halifax, NS) On Saturday night the Dalhousie Tigers took down the University of Montreal Carabins 3-1 (26-24, 26-24, 23-25, 25-10) at the Dalplex. The Tigers have won two straight now after dropping their first two games of the weekend.
(Halifax, NS) On Saturday night the Dalhousie Tigers took down the University of Montreal Carabins 3-1 (26-24, 26-24, 23-25, 25-10) at the Dalplex. The Tigers have won two straight now after dropping their first two games of the weekend.
The Tigers were lucky to come away with a 26-24 first set win after watching an eight-point lead vanish. Dalhousie started the match off with a 9-1 lead but allowed Montreal to creep back into the game.
The Carabins took their first lead of the match at 20-19 after a nice tip by Vicky Savard.
Dalhousie managed to close the set out as Anna Dunn-Suen notched the final two point of the set off a perfectly place tipped and a hard hit that went off the Montreal block.
In the second set it was the Tigers who came from behind, taking the lead at 24-23 after trailing for the majority of the frame. Dalhousie couldn't capitalize on their first set point but Anna Dunn-Suen came up with a big net play to close out the second set 26-24.
The Tigers took a 2-0 set lead in the third set.
Montreal was once again in charge of the third set and was able to close it out this time with a 25-23 victory. The Tigers managed to make things interesting grabbing the lead at 23-22 after a huge kill by Jessica Josenhans but could not finish the match off.
Dalhousie put on their most dominant performance of the weekend with a 25-10 fourth set win over the Carabins. The Tigers started the set on 9-0 run and never looked back from there.
Once again it was Anna Dunn-Suen proving to be Dalhousie best offensive weapon with 16 kills while Marie-Alex Belanger led the Carabins with 12 kills.
Dalhousie now 2-2 will finish off the AUS-RSEQ Interlock event tomorrow afternoon with a 3pm game against UQAM. Montreal takes on Acadia at 10am tomorrow morning.
