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September 12, 2006

Post Volleyball Wins First CACC Match Of The Season

Waterbury, Conn.-Senior Tadj Williams (Albany, N.Y./Bishop Maginn) and sophomore Kerry Smith (Lynbrook, N.Y./Lynbrook) each had double-digit kill totals to lead the Post University volleyball team to a 3-0 (30-23, 30-28, 30-24) sweep of Dominican College, Tuesday evening at the Drubner Center.

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Volleyball Wins First CACC Match Of The Season

Courtesy of Patrick Moran, SID at Post University

Waterbury, Conn.-Senior Tadj Williams (Albany, N.Y./Bishop Maginn) and sophomore Kerry Smith (Lynbrook, N.Y./Lynbrook) each had double-digit kill totals to lead the Post University volleyball team to a 3-0 (30-23, 30-28, 30-24) sweep of Dominican College, Tuesday evening at the Drubner Center.

Williams led all players with 15 kills, while Smith was second on the team with 12, and recorded her third double-double in a row with 10 digs for the Eagles (1-6, 1-0 CACC).

Freshman Gabrielle Hopkins (Yonkers, N.Y./Marble Hill) recorded a career-high 40 assists and eight digs, and sophomore Michelle Stotz (Naugatuck, Conn./Naugatuck) led Post with 13 digs.

Kinikia Collier (Garnerville, NY) led Dominican (0-5, 0-1 CACC) with 11 kills, while Antoinette Hacket (Pearl River, NY) led all players with 20 digs. Kaitlin Earl (Greenville, NY) had 16 assists.

Post held a 49-32 margin in kills, and a slight 2.0 to 1.0 edge in blocks. Both teams recorded 62 digs. Post had an excellent serving evening, recording 13 service aces, led by junior Vicky Ducharme (Nashua, N.H./Nashua) who had six. Hopkins was second on the team with four.

As a team the Eagles finished with a .225 hitting percentage, while Dominican hit .133 on the evening.

Post begins a three-match road trip, starting on Thursday at Nyack College, at 7 p.m. Dominican returns home to host Bloomfield College on Thursday.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.