WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – Taylor Rohan and Victoria Korzan snapped a late tie in the fourth set with back-to-back kills and Western Connecticut State University went on to a four-set Little East Conference women's volleyball victory over Eastern Connecticut State University Wednesday night at Francis E. Geissler Gymnasium. WestConn won by 25-23, 15-25, 25-14, 25-22.
 
    The win is the 13^th in the last 16 meetings for WestConn (9-5, 2-1 LEC) over Eastern (9-2, 2-1 LEC), which had a five-match winning streak ended with WestConn's sixth win in its last seven matches.
 
    There were six ties and four lead changes in the fourth set before Rohan and Korzan put the ball down to make it 20-18 and force an Eastern timeout. Coming out of the timeout, Eastern committed its seventh attack error of the set to give WestConn a 21-18. The Warriors cut the gap to one on three occasions there after but could never pull even. Victoria Alomar put the match away for Western with a pair of match-ending kills.
 
    WestConn survived a back-and-forth first set that included  a total of 12 ties and lead changes, getting two kills from Ali Brochu and one from Abbi Debes down the stretch. Eastern raced to leads of 7-1 and 11-3 in breezing to the win in the second set that tied the match at 1-all, but WestConn led from start to finish in the all-important third set. In that third set, WestConn outscored the Warriors 7-1 to open the match and was never headed. WestConn attacked at .256 in that third set, getting seven kills on a .462 attack percent from Alomar and eight digs from Korzan. Eastern attacked at -.024 in the set.
 
    In the match, the Warriors attacked at only .087. Anna Barry (Andover) and Abby Stern (Manchester) combined for 24 kills in the match and Paula Perez (Caguas, P.R.)  and Stern combined for 34 digs.  Barry had 13 kills and a .281 attack percentage, and Stern 11 kills and 16 digs and was perfect on 26 reception attempts. Alaetra Long (Lincoln, NE) committed only one error on 28 reception attempts. Nayeli Cruz Martinez (Toa Baja, P.R.) recorded four of Eastern's nine service aces, and Meg Verizzi (Lebanon) had 31 assists.
 
    Alomar and Brochu combined for 31 of WestConn's 56 kills, Alomar totalling 16 kills and Brochu 15. In addition to seven kills, Korzan contributed a game-high 21 digs and did not make an error on 20 reception attempts. Rory McMaster (Canton, MI) collected 38 assists and ten digs.
 
For Eastern, Stern's 11 kills moved her to within 16 of becoming the tenth player in program history with as many as 1,000.
 
Eastern visits Keene State College Saturday at noon in a conference match.