BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- Bucs volleyball hosted Salem State for their annual Dig Pink night and went on to beat the Vikings winning their second conference match of the season by a 3-2 final. The win marks the first win for the Buccaneers over Salem State since October 14th, 2006 and the first time since 1996 that the team has won two regular season conference matches in a regular season.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 3, Vikings 2 (30-28, 25-13, 21-25, 19-25, 15-7)

Records: Maritime (4-15, 2-2)

               Salem (2-17, 0-4)

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Offensively, the Bucs were led by Alanys Torres with 10 kills. Maliah Servino and Alaina Strozik each had seven in the match.
• Junior captain Shayla Narodowg tallied 26 assists on the night for Maritime.
• On the serve, Senior captain Marlo Stark led all players with six aces. Narodowg racked up four of her own.
• Defensively, Audrey Manning had 38 digs. Stark tallied 20 and Narodowg had 18.
• At the net, Servino was stellar with nine total blocks, three solo and six assisted. Chloe Johnson had two solos on the night with one assist and Narodowg totaled four assisted blocks.

Salem

• Presley Shairs led all players in the match with 16 kills. Sabina Kamanda totaled 12 in the loss.
• Eva Haralabatos assisted on 22 points and Celia Carbone totaled 15 helpers.
• On the serve, Haralabatos had a team-high two aces on the night. 
• Defensively, Ariana Barrows and Kailey Roche each racked up 22 digs in the loss.
• At the net, Shairs had three solo blocks and Bella Coccia had three assisted blocks.

How It Happened

Set number one was a marathon with the teams playing well over 25 points. Salem took an early lead and extended that lead to four points, 8-4, before the Buccaneers came sailing back to tie the game at 12-12. The Buccaneers would not take a lead until they went up 18-17 but could not extend that lead past two points. Late in the set, the teams went back and forth with Salem even retaking a two-point lead, 22-20. Maritime fought back again and the teams traded off until the Vikings led 18-17. From there, the Buccaneers, after a kill from Strozik, went on to take the next two points, three in a row, with Madeleine Salinas on the serve and won the set 30-28 thanks to a final point ace from Salinas.

Up 1-0 in the match, the Buccaneers started the second set off on the right foot taking an early lead, 7-5, and with Salinas on the serve again, Maritime ran out to an eight point lead, 14-6. They never relinquished the lead in the game, eventually going up more than 10 points on the Vikings and went on to win the set by 12 points, 25-13. The Buccaneers held a 2-0 match lead after two sets.

To start the third set, the Bucs went up 5-1. They held their lead and kept it around four until the teams were at a 12-8 Buccaneers score. Then, the Vikings took control of the game and flipped the score to take their own four-point lead, 19-15. The Buccaneers got themselves up over 20 points but it was too late as Salem State held a 24-21 lead. Thanks to an attack error from Maritime, Salem went on to win the set, 25-21, and climb back into the match now down 2-1.

In set four, Maritime took a very early 2-0 lead but the Vikings took that away and went up 6-3. The Buccaneers retook a lead in the teens and were up 13-11 in the middle of the set. Momentum shifted again in favor of the Vikings and they retook the lead themselves at 18-16. Salem allowed just three points down the stretch in the fourth set and reached the 25-point mark to take the set, 25-19, and tie the match at 2-2.

In the 15-point fifth and deciding set of the match, the Buccaneers had their best set with a .222 hitting percentage. Thanks to the lack of unforced errors, Maritime led wire to wire in the final set. They went up 4-1 early, and extended their lead to five late, 12-7. Then, up 14-7, on the final point of the match, Erin Donlan made a terrific effort to dig a ball off the court that set up Narodowg for a great set to Hailey Rumlow who hammered the final point of the night home. The Bucs won the set, 15-7, and the match, 3-2.

What's Next

The Buccaneers are on the road on Thursday for their next match, in conference, at Worcester State at 7pm.