The Université de Moncton Aigles Bleues battled back after losing the first two sets to win the next three and secured a 3-2 (22-25, 19-25, 25-16, 25-21, 16-14) win over the Dalhousie Tigers in AUS women’s volleyball actionon Saturday afternoon at the CEPS Louis-J.-Robichaud gymnasium on the Moncton campus.
Moncton got out to an early 5-0 lead in the first set but the Tigers battled back going on an 8-point run to take the lead 19-9 late in the set thanks to great service from Talia Vydykhan and kills from Lucy Glen-Carter. The Aigles Bleues caught up to hold the Tigers to a 2 point lead, but ultimately gave the Tigers the 25-22 first set win off of two errors.
The second set started off more evenly matched, until halfway through the Tigers went on a 10-2 point run. The Tigers would go on to win the set 25-19 and go up 2-0 in the game.
Early in the third set, Moncton’s Ivana Urquhart-Mladi went on a seven-serve run, helping the Aigles Bleues get out to a 15-6 lead. They would win the set 25-16.
A back-and-forth fourth set saw Moncton outlast the Tigers to win 25-21 and force a fifth set which they would go on to win 16-14.
The Aigles Bleues player of the game, Kyana Sivret, had 12 kills and Sara Chiasson added 10 more and 20 digs. Lucy Glenn-Carter had 11 kills for the Tigers and Alessandra Nadalini had 24 digs.