POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Junior outside hitter Sydney Lyon (Weston, Conn.) posted match highs in kills (13), aces (4) and digs (15) to lead the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's volleyball team over host Vassar College, 3-1 (25-20, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18) this evening in the first night of the Vassar Quad at Kenyon Hall in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The Lyons improve to 1-4 on the season, while the Brewers slip to 1-4.

Wheaton hit .205 for the match, including .500 in the opening set, despite Vassar getting up for eight blocks in the match. The Lyons also fired 12 aces on the night.

Lyon hit .241 for the match, while sophomore right side hitter Mary Caroline Mazzanti (New Orleans, La.) put down 12 kills on a .207 hitting mark and added three digs for Wheaton. Junior outside hitter Celina Henn (Atwater, Calif.) swung for 10 kills to go with an ace and four digs and classmate Hollis Hanson (Parker, Colo.) was very efficient in the middle with seven kills and no attack errors for a .438 hitting rate and a pair of block assists. Sophomore setter Ajsa Orbán (Budapest, Hungary) fired three aces, got down for five digs and set for 25 assists. Sophomore libero Jackie Hochberg (Tampa, Fla.) picked up 11 digs and served for a quartet of aces.

Sophomore outside hitter Holland Kaplan (Calabasas, Calif.) registered 10 kills to lead the Brewers and sophomore outside hitter Maura McAusland (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) put away nine kills, fired an ace, got up for three blocks and scooped up three digs in three sets. Senior setter Hailey Hayes (Canyon Lake, Texas) set for 14 assists and came up with four digs, while junior defensive specialist Ellie Kogan (Brooklyn N.Y.) led the squad with eight digs in two sets.

The Lyons took a 7-2 opening set lead, led by a pair of kills from Mazzanti and two aces from Hochberg. Vassar answered with an 8-3 stretch, capped by an ace from senior setter Molly Arden (Essex, Vt.), to pull the home team even at 10-10. Wheaton brushed off the answer from its host and engaged in a 9-1 blitz paced by an ace and a kill from Lyon, to give the Lyons a 19-11 advantage,. The Brewers closed to within three after two kills and a pair of aces from senior outside hitter Morgan Miller (Lone Tree, Colo.) put Vassar within striking distance at 21-18. The Lyons closed out the frame with a 7-2 burst for a 25-20 result.

The Brewers took their largest lead of the second frame early on at 7-3, before five straight points, including a pair of kills from Hanson, gave Wheaton an 8-7 edge. Vassar reclaimed the lead at 15-14 after a kill from senior middle blocker Frannie Anthony-Brumfield (Hanover, Va.). Mazzanti swung for a pair of kills as part of a 6-2 jolt that put the visitors in front by a count of 20-17. Three straight attack errors committed by the Lyons allowed the Brewers to knot the game at 20-20, before Wheaton closed out the frame with a 5-2 run to give the Lyons the frame and a 2-0 match lead. 

Senior middle blocker Julia Hale (San Francisco, Calif.) put down a kill to even the score at 6–6 fro Vassar, but an 11-3 stretch, paced by two kills each from Hanson and first year middle hitter Haley Jenkins (Dartmouth, Mass.), gave Wheaton a 17-9 advantage. The Lyons looked primed for a match sweep until the Brewers unleashed seven unanswered points to climb within a point at 17-16. Wheaton scored three of the next four points to take a 20-17 margin, but Vassar closed out the set with eight of the final 10 points to take its only set of the match at 25-22.

The Lyons reversed the home team's momentum to begin the fourth set, scoring eight of the first 10 points, behind three kills from Henn, to take an 8-2 lead. Four kills and an ace from McAusland pulled the Brewers to within 10-9, but it was as close as they would get for the rest of the match. Mazzanti put away a pair of kills to give Wheaton a 16-11 advantage, but Vassar continued to hang close at 18-16. The Lyons tallied six straight points as part of a 6-2 stretch that saw the visitors advance to set and match point with a 24-16 lead. The Brewers recorded the next two points, before Wheaton took the set at 25-18 to come away with the match win.

The Lyons return to action tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., on the second day of the Vassar Quad, when they take on State University of New York Geneseo, while Vassar plays State University of New York Morrisville at 3:00 p.m.