Box Score
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OAKDALE, N.Y. - The No. 2 Lady Blues hit .370 as a team as they swept Adelphi 25-13, 25-18, 25-22, Friday afternoon in the first match of the Dowling Hilton Garden Inn Invite. Monica Miesner had a double-double and hit .444 to lead Washburn to its ninth straight win to start the season.

Washburn won easily in the first two sets and then held off the Panthers' in the third to claim their seventh three-set sweep of the year. A match against Dowling at 6 p.m. Central will wrap up Friday's action.

Miesner had 12 kills with no errors in 27 attacks to hit .444 during the match. She added 15 digs for her fifth double-double of the year. She moved into a tie for second at Washburn, now with 79 career double-figure dig matches, tying assistant coach and All-American Dani (McHenry) Schmidt.

Mollie Lacy had nine kills and no errors in 18 attempts to hit .500 and Kate Hampson led the solid offense with 34 assists. Miesner's dig total of 15 led the defense and Molly Smith added 10. Washburn blocked five shots with Hampson and Stephanie Nitz each contributing to three of them.

Adelphi never led in the first or second sets but the Panthers led three times in the third set to keep it close. They built a four-point lead at 8-4 and then Washburn went on a 4-0 run to tie the score. The two teams played closely from then on but the Lady Blues took the lead for good at 14-13 and closed out the match on a kill from Miesner and then an Adelphi attack error.

The Panthers hit .117 as a team and were led by Kathleen Carney with eight points.


Notes
• Miesner tied assistant coach and All-American Dani McHenry with her 79th career double-figure dig match, the second highest total in school history. Erica Cowhick, who finished her career last year, is the school leader with 108 double-figure dig matches.
• Washburn is now 1-0 against Adelphi in the first meeting in school history.