Newburgh, NY- Tonight the Scarlet Raiders from Rutgers-Newark traveled to play the Mount Saint Mary College women's volleyball team at the Kaplan Center.  Tonight's home opener for Coach Strano and his team was a thriller from start to finish and If you were lucky enough to watch the game, you were privileged to see Jonaiya Williams put on a hitting clinic.

The first home game of the season had the team fired up.  Winning the first 26-24, the began the second set much like the first getting an early lead but unable to carry the energy through to the end.  Coach Strano fired the women back up for the third set, who at one point were up by 7 points.  But again, their opponents rallied back to take the third.  The fourth set was another battle, but didn't fall the way of the home team.

"We looked so strong the beginning of each set, very promising seeing the team battling for every ball yet struggling to get over the hump and put away the sets." Coach Strano commented after the game.

Williams had 55 total attacks on the ball and put down 20 for kills.  She was directly responsible for 21.5 points for the team.  On defense Vanessa, Mleczko had 19 digs and put together 6.5 points of her own.

The Mount will on the road for their next match Saturday Sept 16^th as they take on Delaware Valley University at 1pm.