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WILLIMANTIC, Conn.- The Eastern Connecticut State University women's volleyball team faced Keene State College (7-10, 1-2) in a Little East Conference matchup and Westfield State University in a non-conference game Saturday afternoon at Francis E. Geissler Gymnasium.  
 
The Warriors (9-5, 2-0 LEC) came in having won four straight matches and extended the streak to five with the four-set win over Keene State (8-10, 1-2 LEC)
before dropping a four-set non-conference decision to Westfield State (6-10).
 
Against Keene, the Warriors won the first and second sets before falling in the third. The Warriors came back to win the match in four, 25-23, 25-17, 16-25, 25-20 and defeat Keene for the fifth time in the last seven meetings, including the last four at Geissler Gym.
 
Against Keene, first-year outside Emma Robinson (Westlake Village, CA) led the Warriors with 13 kills with sophomore middle Haley Jo Bridges (Montebello, NY) right behind with ten. Sophomore middle Maggie Barr (Easthampton, MA) had seven kills on 14 total attacks for a game-high hitting percentage at .500. Junior setter Liz Squier (Trevor, WI) and first year setter Ariah Davis (Raleigh, NC) combined for 38 assists, 23 and 15, respectively.
 
After being swept by Keene for the second time this year in the second match of the day, Westfield unveiled a completely different lineup that it had utilized against Keene, in handing Eastern its first home loss of the year and downing the Warriors for the third time in the last four meetings. Westfield won by scores of 25-22, 25-15, 22-25 and 26-24.
 
Against Westfield, Eastern attached at just .104 and committed nine reception errors. Defensively, the Warriors had no answer for Westfield junior Hanna Nihill, who shared game-high honors with 14 kills and led all players with a .462 attack percentage.
 
Robinson matched Nihill with 14 kills, with junior outside Taylor Thompson (West Point, NY) submitting a career-high 13 kills and senior Bella Johnson (Marlborough) adding eight, with her final one representing her 100^th of the season. Squier (17) and junior Samantha Blandford (Windham, NH) combined on 32 assists.  Sophomore Brooke Praskievicz (Moodus) and sophomore Sierra York (Ashford) combined to handle 32 serve receptions with just one error each.  Squier led the Warriors with 14 digs, first-year libero Emerson Conigliaro (Wake Forest, NC) adding ten and handling a game-high 27 serve receptions with only two errors. York had eight digs and Robinson and Davis seven each.
 
Eastern looks for its third straight LEC win when it visits Rhode Island College Wednesday at  7 p.m. The Warriors have won 13 straight against the Anchorwomen (9-3, 1-1 LEC), who were swept at home in an LEC match Saturday by Plymouth State University, ranked second in the LEC pre-season poll.