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Carmen Bernardis hitting the ball at the net
Jim Stankiewicz
3
Winner St. Cloud St. SCSU 6-0,0-0 NSIC
0
Southern N.H. SNHU 4-1,0-0 NE10
Winner
St. Cloud St. SCSU
6-0,0-0 NSIC
3
Final
0
Southern N.H. SNHU
4-1,0-0 NE10
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
St. Cloud St. SCSU 25 25 25 (3)
Southern N.H. SNHU 11 19 17 (0)
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Winner Southern N.H. SNHU 5-1,0-0 NE10
0
Northern Mich. NMU 1-6,0-0 GLIAC
Winner
Southern N.H. SNHU
5-1,0-0 NE10
3
Final
0
Northern Mich. NMU
1-6,0-0 GLIAC
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Southern N.H. SNHU 25 25 25 (3)
Northern Mich. NMU 17 23 20 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Women's Volleyball Splits Pair to Open Up North Preseason Tourney

Penmen suffered first loss of '23 to No. 5 St. Cloud; rebounded to beat Northern Michigan

When and Where: September 8, 2023 – Duluth, Minn. (Romano Gymnasium)
Match 1 Score: #5 St. Cloud State University 3, Southern New Hampshire University 0
Match 2 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 3, Northern Michigan University 0
Records: SNHU 5-1, SCSU 6-0, NMU 1-6

Junior Carmen Bernardis (Trieste, Italy) posted 12 kills and seven blocks, as the Southern New Hampshire University women's volleyball team split a pair of matches at the Up North Preseason Tournament on Friday at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Romano Gymnasium. The Penmen suffered their first loss of the season to fifth-ranked St. Cloud State University (3-0), but bounced back with a three-set win against Northern Michigan University.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS
  • Bernardis – 12 kills (2.00 k/s), 4 digs (0.67 d/s), 7 blocks (1.17 b/s)
  • Redshirt-senior Ana Pimenta (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – 19 kills (3.17 k/s), 6 digs (1.00 d/s), 3 blocks (0.50 b/s)
  • Junior Deanne Wilson (Buffalo, N.Y.) – 27 digs (4.50 d/s)
  • Freshman Katalin Kovacs (Budapest, Hungary) – 26 assists (4.33 a/s), 2 aces, 12 digs (2.0 d/s)
KEY MOMENTS – ST. CLOUD MATCH
  • Southern New Hampshire held a 7-6 lead in the opening set when St. Cloud used a 19-4 burst to take a 1-0 lead in the match.
  • The Penmen kept the middle stanza tight, trailing 18-17 before the Huskies scored seven of the next nine to take the set and a 2-0 lead in the match.
  • After a pair of Bernardis kills staked SNHU to a 4-1 lead in the third, SCSU countered with a 19-6 rush that opened up a 20-10 advantage. The Penmen scored seven of the next 10 to pull within 23-17, but a pair of attack errors ended it and gave the Huskies the win.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – ST. CLOUD MATCH
  • Set scores were 25-11, 25-19, 25-17.
  • Bernardis led the team with nine kills and three blocks.
  • Pimenta posted five kills, four digs and a pair of blocks.
  • Graduate student Alessandra Peli (Brescia, Italy) added three kills and three blocks.
  • Grad student Dai Thawnghmung (Lowell, Mass.) also recorded three kills.
  • Kovac registered 12 assists and five digs.
  • Sophomore Ella Koelb (Auburn, N.H.) added seven assists.
  • Wilson collected a team-high eight digs.
  • SCSU outhit SNHU in the first and third sets, as well as .340-.127, overall.
  • The Huskies owned an 8-1 advantage in aces, while the Penmen held a 7-5 edge in blocks.
KEY MOMENTS – NORTHERN MICHIGAN MATCH
  • SNHU was ahead, 16-14, in the opening set when it reeled off six straight points and nine of the next 12 to take a 1-0 lead in the match.
  • The Penmen led, 16-9, in the middle stanza when the Wildcats used a 9-1 rush to go in front, 18-17. The set was tied at 23-all when a pair of Northern Michigan attack errors put SNHU up, 2-0.
  • SNHU was again on top, 21-19, in the third, with kills from Bernardis and Pimenta, as well as an ace from junior Chiara Di Valerio (Terni, Italy), powering a 4-1 spurt that ended the match.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – NORTHERN MICHIGAN MATCH
  • Set scores were 25-17, 25-23, 25-20.
  • Pimenta recorded 14 kills on .294 hitting.
  • Thanwghmung tallied seven kills, eight digs and a pair of blocks.
  • Bernardis registered three kills, four blocks and three digs.
  • Peli posted three kills and six blocks.
  • Kovacs collected 14 assists, seven digs and two assists.
  • Wilson racked up 19 digs.
  • Koelb added nine assists and two blocks.
  • SNHU outhit NMU in all three sets, as well as .202-.102 for the match.
  • The Penmen owned advantages in both aces (7-4) and blocks (11-2).
NOTES
  • Southern New Hampshire matches its 5-1 start to the season from a year ago.
  • This was SNHU's first all-time meeting with both St. Cloud State and Northern Michigan.
WHAT'S NEXT
  • The Penmen finish at the Up North Preseason Tournament on Saturday against Michigan Technological University (10:30 a.m. EDT) and the University of Minnesota Duluth (8:30 p.m. EDT).
  • The next home match for SNHU is Tuesday, Sept. 26 (7 p.m.) when it plays host to Bentley University at the Field House.

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