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NEW LONDON, Conn. – Senior outside Riley Lord had a match-high 14 kills without an attack error as the Connecticut College women's volleyball team continued its recent mastery of Eastern Connecticut State University with a three-set non-conference sweep (25-15, 25-21, 25-18) Wednesday evening at Luce Field House.
 
The loss – despite the fact that all three matches were tightly contested -- is Eastern's (7-2) first away from home after five wins and ends the Warriors' four-match winning streak. With its second straight sweep on the heels of a three-match losing streak, Conn (4-3) climbs over the .500 mark. Since the Warriors won seven straight in the series – the last coming in 2006 -- the Camels have captured 14 of the last 15 against Eastern. It marked the first time in the last six matches in the series that the Warriors have been swept by Conn, however.
 
Lord was not charged with an error on 27 attempts, while 6-foot-1 inch junior teammate Rae Wartelle added ten kills with a .333 attack percentage.
 
Eastern junior middle Haley Jo Bridges (Montebello, NY) continued her torrid attack percentage with a .559 mark on nine attempts, collecting five kills to improve her season percentage to .336 with 76 kills. Junior attack Brooke Praskievicz (Moodus) led Eastern with nine digs, senior setter Liz Squier (Trevor, WI) adding 22 assists and seven digs, sophomore outside Emma Robinson (Westlake Village, CA) eight kills, sophomore libero Emerson Conigliaro (Raleigh, NC) seven digs,  and senior setter Samantha Blandford (Windham, NH) chipping in three service aces.
 
In the match, Conn attacked at .348 – an Eastern opponent's highest percentage this season – while the Warriors managed only .092, including .000 in the four-point second-set loss. Fourteen Conn blocks contributed, in large part, to Eastern's offensive inefficiency. Defensively, however, Eastern compiled a .933 reception percentage, with Praskievicz and Conigliaro combining to handle 32 serve attempts without an error.
 
The Camels never trailed in the second set but the Warriors rallied after being down by six early on, with Robinson's kill off a pass from Squier making it 13-12. A Conn service error later pulled the Warriors to within two, 23-21 before two Eastern attack errors closed it out for the Camels.
 
Fighting to stay alive and avoid a sweep in the third set, Eastern managed to pull to within striking distance after giving up the first seven points of the set and later trailing 12-1. A 16-9 scoring spurt cut the gap to six, 23-17, but the Camels were able to hold on, closing it out on a kill with Eastern serving.
 
Eastern hosts Johnson & Wales University (7-3) at noon and Vassar College (7-1) at 4 p.m. Saturday in a non-conference pair at Geissler Gymnasium. Johnson & Wales is coming off Wednesday's four-set home victory over two-time defending Little East Conference champion University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Vassar needs one win to match last year's entire win total. The Warriors hold a 13-8 series lead with Johnson & Wales but have dropped the last two; Eastern is 2-1 against Vassar, having captured the last two.