Sinclair Tartan Pride Volleyball

Posted by Doug Brown on October 14, 2015
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October 14, 2015

Sinclair Volleyball falls to Cincinnati State Community College in Five

Dayton, OH – The Sinclair (14-9/5-5) Volleyball team dropped a heartbreaker to visiting OCCAC rival Cincinnati State Surge (19-9/7-3) tonight in five games.

The Pride kept up with Cincinnati State’s powerful offensive and defense ends at the net resulting in a win for the Pride in the first match. Cincinnati State went on to win the second match closely (22-25). The second match went back and forth between both teams but the Surge was able to dominate (22-25). Sinclair struggled offensively in match three until they came back to tie the game 24-24. The ending results was Cincinnati State coming away with the victory (27-29). Sinclair gave the Surge a tough game in match four resulting in a win for Sinclair. The last match of the night was hard fought but the Pride weren’t able to defend Cincinnati State’s offensive and aggressive hits at the net. The Surge went on to win the match and the game (6-15).

Meg Rieneke (FR-Outside Hitter/New Knoxville H.S.) tallied for 19 kills in tonight’s game and Alexandra Petri (SO-Outside Hitter/Springboro H.S.) also had 16 kills to help the Tartans offense. Melissa Mireles (SO-Setter/Germantown, OH) contributed with 42 assist for the Tartans in tonight’s game.

Cincinnati State (19-9/7-3)        22    25    29   23   15

Sinclair     (14-9/5-5)                25    22     27   25   6

 

Sophomore Melissa Mireles (SO-Setter/Germantown, OH) from Sinclair has 669 assists for the season while averaging 8.36 assists per game. Meg Rieneke (FR-Outside Hitter/New Knoxville H.S.) is also leading the team with 369 kills for the season and averaging 5.03 digs per game.

Sinclair will be travel to Lorain County Community College on Saturday October 17th at 11:00 am. The Tartans will be back on their home court against Lakeland Community College on Friday October 23rd at 6:00pm.

All home games are played in Building 8 on the downtown Dayton campus.

You can also get results and stats at : www.SinclairAthletics.com

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