CLEVELAND, Ohio – Brandeis University senior Anna Ertischek (Montgomery, Texas/Lake Creek) moved into ninth on the Judges career kills list as the Judges dropped a pair of University Athletic Association matches to NYU and the University of Chicago at Case Western Reserve today. Both matches were decided in three sets.

TEAM RECORDS

• Brandeis, 7-15, 0-5 UAA.
• NYU, 12-7, 3-2 UAA.
• Chicago, 9-9, 4-1 UAA.

HOW IT HAPPENED vs NYU (25-14, 25-21, 25-19)

• The Violets took control of the first set with a 5-0 run that took a 5-3 deficit to an 8-5 lead. They eventually went ahead, 21-10, and cruised to the 11-point win, 25-14.
• The Judges got off to a hot start in the second set, winning eight of the first 12 points to take an 8-4 lead after scoring four in a row on the serve of sophomore Madison Haft-Abromovitch (Stamford, Conn./Rye Country Day School).
• NYU battled back to tie things up at 14-all. Brandeis won the next point on a kill by Ertischek to go ahead, 15-14.
• NYU closed on a 10-7 run, including four of the last five points after Brandeis narrowed their deficit to 21-20 on a kill by first-year Katya Belyakova (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph Hill Acad.).
• Brandeis started fast again in the third set, taking a 7-3 lead, but a 9-1 run by the Violets put them ahead, 12-8.
• The Judges would rally again, edging ahead, 19-18, on a block by Haft-Abromovitch and first-year Colette Ejang (Los Angeles, Calif./Taft Charter School).
• NYU called timeout, and the Violets closed out the match with a 7-0 run on the serve of Sarah Beville, who delivered four aces in the decisive streak.
• Ertischek was the only player in the match with double-digit kills with 10, while Haft-Abromovitch and Ejang each had six.
• Overall, NYU only had a 32-31 advantage in kills, but they had a 14-2 margin in service aces and 9-5 in blocks. They also committed 14 attack errors to 23 for the Judges.

HOW IT HAPPENED vs CHICAGO (26-24, 25-23, 25-20)

• In the second match of the day against Chicago, the teams were separated by just nine points across the three sets, with the first two coming down to two-point margins.
• Brandeis was again even with their opponents in kills, with the Judges owning a 38-37 lead, but the Maroons had just 20 errors to 25 for Brandeis.
• UC had the better of net play with eight blocks to Brandeis's one, while service aces were six aside, but Brandeis had seven service errors to two for the Maroons.
• In the opening set, Brandeis came from 10-3 down to eventually take a 20-18 lead. Chicago got the lead back after a string of Brandeis errors made it 24-21.
• The Judges held off the first three set points as Belyakova caught fire, converting three-straight kills to tie the match at 24, but Chicago was able to clinch the next two points to take it, 26-24.
• Brandeis erased an early 5-2 deficit in the second set, but the Maroons had a 10-2 run after the Judges tied things at 9-all that gave UC a 19-12 lead.
• The Judges were able to close within 23-22 after a Chicago error, but they couldn't come all the way back in a 25-23 loss.
• Chicago never trailed in the third set after an early 4-2 deficit. They scored six of the next eight points and didn't look back, taking it 25-20.
• Ertischek tied for match-high honors with 15 kills. She ended the day with 1145 kills, surpassing Naomi Skolnick '01 for ninth on the all-time list.
• Belyakova established a new career-high with seven kills.
• Sophomore Alexa Ho (Queens, N.Y./Francis Lewis) had 32 assists and three service aces.

UP NEXT

• The Judges will play a non-conference match at Suffolk University on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.