Maile Somera
Senior team captain Maile Somera on Friday surpassed the 1,000-dig mark for her Yale career.
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Yale Yale 0-1,0-0 Ivy League
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Winner High Point HP 2-3,0-0 Big South
Yale Yale
0-1,0-0 Ivy League
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Final
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High Point HP
2-3,0-0 Big South
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Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Yale Yale 24 25 25 16 (1)
High Point HP 26 27 23 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Ernie Bertothy

Somera Posts Career-High 27 Digs in Season-Opener

Bulldogs fall to reigning Big South champs on Friday

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Senior team captain Maile Somera opened the season with a career-high 27 digs and first-year Betsy Goodenow led the Bulldogs with 11 kills in a 3-1 loss to High Point in day one of the Black Knights Invitational.   The scores of the match were 26-24, 27-25, 23-25 and 25-16.

Set Breakdown:

Set 1
Yale rattled off four straight points to take a 22-21 lead in a set that went down to the wire.  Cara Shultz tied the match at 23-23, and Gigi Barr tied it again two points later before High Point. 

Set 2
The Bulldogs scored four of the first five points of the set – including two kills from first-year Laurece Abraham.  From there, the set was tied nine times before High Point took the final two points. 

Set 3
Yale hit a match-best .268 for the set and posted 15 kills.  The Bulldogs used a quick-hitting 4-0 run in the middle of the set bookended by kills from Mila Yarich and Barr.  In another back and forth set, Yale scored four of the final five points of the set – getting kills from Bonnie Bostic, Goodenow, and two from Yarich. 

Set 4
Yale jumped out to a 6-3 lead with kills from Fatima Samb and Barr.  High Point responded to take an 8-6 lead before the Bulldogs answered back. Diehl and Barr combined on a block to tie the set at 8-8.  Barr re-tied the set at 9-9 and Bostic gave Yale the lead on the next point.  High Point scored seven of the next eight points en route to the set victory.

Notes:
  • Maile Somera surpassed the 1,000-dig mark for her Yale career.  She now has 1,020.
  • Mila Yarich just missed a double-double with 12 digs and nine kills.  She had eight double-doubles in 2022.
  • Carly Diehl stuffed the stat sheet.  She had 36 assists, 11 digs, three aces, two kills and a block assist.
  • Gigi Barr had 10 kills and hit .412. 
  • First-year Laurece Abraham had two of the first three kills of the season for Yale early in the first set and finished with four for the match. 
  • High Point is the three-time defending regular season champs of the Big South Conference and was picked to repeat in the 2023 preseason poll. 

Up next:

The Bulldogs will face Liberty tomorrow at 11 a.m.  The Flames defeated High Point 3-2 on Thursday.
 
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