Orange Fall Short Despite Second-Set Rally

Friday, November 25

South Bend, IN

1 pm

Syracuse University

7-23, 6-14ACC

Notre Dame

22-10, 13-7ACC

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Syracuse	16	25	16	11	1
Notre Dame	25	13	25	25	3

11/25/2016 3:10:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score

‘Cuse ends season at Notre Dame

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Syracuse volleyball team was defeated by Notre Dame in four sets (25-16, 13-25, 25-16, 25-11) on Friday afternoon at Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind. The game marks the 15th four-set match for the Orange this season.

'Cuse finished the 2016 campaign with a 7-23 overall record, while competing to a 6-14 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Fighting Irish closed out the regular season with a 22-10 overall record, while finishing 13-7 in conference play.

For the second-consecutive game, Anastasiya Gorelina led the Orange attack, tallying 12 kills on the game. The outside hitter was the only Orange player to hit in double-digits.

Amber Witherspoon dominated the net for Syracuse, recording a career-high 12 blocks, including one solo stop and 11 assisted blocks at the net.

As a team, the Orange out-blocked the Fighting Irish, 19.0-7.0.

The trio of Kendra Lukacs, Bella Sand and Jalissa Trotter had double-digit dig marks, as Lukacs and Sand had 19 apiece and Trotter had 18.

Syracuse struggled to find a momentum in the first set, falling short of the Fighting Irish, 25-16.

The Orange rallied in the second set thanks to a 16-2 run to sit atop UND, 19-7. Syracuse finished out the set with an even 6-6 run to claim game two, 25-13.

Despite the second-set rally, Notre Dame capitalized on a 25-16 victory in set three and a 25-11 win in set four to claim the four-set regular season finale.

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