Nov. 2, 2007
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A pair of Irish players collected double-doubles in the University of Notre Dame volleyball team’s 3-0 (30-16, 30-20, 30-14) home win over Georgetown on Friday afternoon. Senior Adrianna Stasiuk (Park Ridge, Ill./Maine South) had 14 kills and 10 digs and senior setter Ashley Tarutis (Long Beach, Calif./Los Alamitos) dished out 38 assists with 10 scoops while orchestrating the Irish offense to a .395 clip.
The BIG EAST Conference win at the Joyce Center lifted Notre Dame’s record to 6-5 in league action and 10-12 overall. With the victory, the Irish extended their wining streak over Georgetown to nine-straight matches with an all-time record of 17-1, including a 13-0 mark in conference contests.
Georgetown (5-22 overall, 1-10 BIG EAST) was limited to a .031 attack average with Dana Dumas recording a team-high six kills.
Junior Justine Stremick (Langdon, N.D./Langdon Area) continued to have the hot hand for the Irish. The middle blocker had 13 kills on a .684 clip with seven blocks. She is now carrying a .421 hitting average over the past three matches with 3.70 kills/game.
Freshman Angela Puente (Redondo Beach, Calif./Bishop Montgomery) chipped in 13 digs and sophomore Tara Enzweiler (Raleigh, N.C./Cardinal Gibbons) had three blocks – all of which came over the course of three plays in the first stanza.
Game one started when freshman Kellie Sciacca (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer) scored on a putback and a Stasiuk cutter doubled-up the score, 4-2. Stasiuk’s backrow attack fell for a point (10-4) and Tarutis squeezed in a dump on the second hit to make it a 13-7 game. The Hoyas scored the next four before Notre Dame answered with four more. Sitting on a 21-13 lead, Stremick got her hand on the next four Hoya attacks to record four blocks. She would soon add a monster kill on the slide to give ND a 26-14 lead.
Notre Dame hit .515 in the opening game with 20 kills on 33 attempts. Seven of those kills came from Stasiuk with Puente punching in six of her digs in the frame. Georgetown was limited to seven kills on 34 swings and seven errors for a .000 hitting mark.
The Hoyas held their first lead of the match in game two by taking the first point. Three kills by sophomore Megan Fesl (Arlington Heights, Ill./John Hersey) keyed an 8-1 Irish run. Not to be outdone, Stremick went on a tear for four-straight kills midway through the period. Notre Dame led by as many as 15 (23-8), and fought off brief Hoya rallies before winning the game by 10 points.
In finishing the match with a .424 hitting average in game three, the Irish got three kills apiece from Sciacca, Fesl, Stremick, and sophomore Serinity Phillips (Valley Center, Calif./Valley Center). Stasiuk had a game-high four kills and also getting in on the action was freshman Stephanie Slatt (Burien, Wash./John F. Kennedy), who closed out the ND scoring column with a kill. Nearly all of ND’s points came during a quintet of spurts, with four four-point streaks and a rally of five-straight scores by the home team.
South Florida is the next visitor during Notre Dame’s four-match home stretch. Action starts on Sunday (Nov. 4) at 2 p.m. (ET) in a contest that will be televised on Comcast Local.
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