Sierzant Reaches Career-High In Loss To Boston College

Friday, November 17

Syracuse, N.Y.

6 p.m.

Syracuse University

2-24,0-16ACC

Boston College

17-13,6-10ACC

Boston College

Syracuse

2023 Volleyball Veronica Sierzant In Back Court

Sierzant Reaches Career-High In Loss To Boston College

11/17/2023 9:38:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score Highlights

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Syracuse University volleyball team lost to Boston College on Friday night, 3-1 (25-22, 17-25, 25-12, 25-12) in the Women's Building. Freshman setter Veronica Sierzant took the role of outside hitter today, having a career-high 16 kills in the outing. Fellow freshman Zharia Harris-Waddy led the team in total blocks with six.

"We wanted to improve on the last time that we matched up against Boston College," said head coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam. "We wanted to serve the ball better and control the ball on our side, to play better defense and give them opportunities to make mistakes. We also wanted to be aggressive on the offense. We served the ball well and put pressure on them, doing a much better job on offense. Overall, I thought it was a good fight, the team came out and did a good job competing."

The Eagles took an early lead in the first set, 10-5. The Orange retaliated with scoring runs of four points and three points to take the lead, 14-13. There were six occasions of the score being tied in frame one, eventually bringing the score even at 22-22. Boston College closed out the first frame with a three-point run, 25-22. 'Cuse came back with a vengeance in the second set, stringing together an early seven-point run to lead the frame, 9-2. The Orange kept the lead throughout the set and were able to win it with a 5-2 scoring run powered by kills from Sierzant and graduate Lauren McCabe, 25-17.

Syracuse kept pace with Boston College in the first half of the third set, trailing by one, 11-10. The Eagles went on to take the frame with scoring runs of eight and four points to win 25-12. Down two sets to one, the Orange fought hard early, trailing 7-5 in set four. After Boston College put together a five-point run to make the score 12-5, the lead was never lost, winning the set and match, 25-12.

Of Note:

Sierzant hit a career-best 16 kills in the affair, topping her previous best of 10 kills against Clemson.
Freshman Zharia Harris-Waddy paced the Orange defense, totaling five block assists and one solo block. She was a significant contributor on the offense as well, accruing seven kills.
Graduate Alyssa Bert had a team-high 13 digs in the match, chipping in four assists and one service ace.
Freshman Mira Ledermueller tossed up a team-high 32 assists, her highest total in ACC matches this season.

Next Match:
Syracuse will travel south for a matchup against #9 Georgia Tech on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 12 p.m. The match will be live on ACC Network and will have live stats available.

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