Wilkes | Albright

OWINGS MILLS, Md. - The Stevenson women's volleyball team extended its win streak to 12 and its home winning streak to six on Saturday as the Mustangs remained unbeaten at home this seaosn with a 25-13, 25-17, 25-12 victory over Wilkes and a 25-13, 25-14, 26-24 win over Albright in a tri-match at Owings Mills Gymnasium.

The Mustangs (14-1) are now just three wins shy of the school record for consecutive wins set by the 2008 team that started the season 15-0 en route to a school-best 32 wins.

Senior Alex Mercer (Eldersburg/Liberty) led the way with 21 kills and a .500 hitting percentage as she had just three errors in 36 attempts while adding seven total blocks, six digs and two service aces.

Sophomore Avery Gabbard (Arnold/Broadneck) totaled 18 kills and 20 digs and freshman Jessica Gieselman (Westminster/Winters Mill) had 14 kills, 51 assists, six service aces, 17 digs and five total blocks.

Juniors Brooke Gilley (Bel Air/C. Milton Wright) and Kristen Lubeski (Bishopville/Stephen Decatur) each had eight kills while junior Alexa Carney (Towson/Towson) added 18 digs and junior Amy Rudolph (North East/Rising Sun) had 15 digs, 18 assists and five service aces.

Stevenson was never really threatened in the first game versus Wilkes (7-9). The team rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the first and scored the final 10 points, nine of which came on the serve of freshman Jamie Krens (Owings Mills/Franklin), and broke a 17-17 tie in the second with the final eight points before jumping out to a 10-2 lead in the third and crusing to the 13-point victory.

Gabbard totaled 13 kills and 12 digs, both game-highs, for her fourth double double of the season and her third in the last four games, while Mercer finished with seven kills and Gieselman had six kills, 24 assists and eight digs.

Carney and freshman Samantha Shetterly (Elkridge/Mount de Sales) also had eight digs while Rudolph added four service aces.

Against Albright (3-9) in the second game, the Mustangs quickly led 2-0 as the first two sets featured just one tie and one lead change with that coming in the first set at 1-1.

However, the Lions roared back in the third as they broke a 10-10 with a 9-5 run to take their largest lead of the game. Stevenson tied the game at 23-23 on a service ace by Gieselman before kills by Lubeski and Gieselman and an Albright attack error gave the Mustangs the two-point victory.

Lubeski totaled all of her season-high five kills in the third set as she did not committ an error in 12 attempts for a .417 hitting percentage. As a team, Stevenson had to overcome a .187 percentage.

Mercer finished with a game-high 14 kills and Gieselman added eight to go along with nine digs, 27 assists and four service aces. Rudolph had 10 assists and eight digs while freshman Stacey Rex (Finksburg/Westminster) had six kills, two shy of her career-high. Gilley tied her season-high with four.

The Mustangs hit the road for a CAC contest at Frostburg State on Wednesday beginning at 7:00 p.m.