BALTIMORE, Md. – Coppin State's women's volleyball team got off to a strong start but dropped its season finale at Morgan State, 3-1 (21-25, 26-24, 25-21, 25-16) on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles finish the year at 4-26 overall and 4-8 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference while the Bears move to 8-17 on the year and 7-5 in the MEAC.
Asia Stennis led the way offensively for Coppin, finishing with a match-high 19 kills while
Marlena Guice added ten and
Bailee Jackson chipped in with nine. Guice also recorded 11 digs for her second double-double of the season as Jackson was a kill short of a double-double of her own as she finished with ten digs.
Dominique Madarang quarterbacked the offense and recorded 39 assists.
Glorines Rosado led the Eagles with 19 digs and finished with 392 for the year, good for the sixth-most in CSU single-season history. Rosado ranks third in school-history with 1,085 digs, just three short of
Andrea McGant ('06) for second.
The Eagles never trailed in the opening set and with the frame tied at 12, Coppin got a kill by
Valiyah Barnes and an error by Morgan State and the Bears were never able to equalize. A kill by Stennis seal the set for the Navy & Gold.
Trailing 21-17 in the second, Stennis recorded three kills as the Eagles went on a 6-0 run to take a 23-21 advantage. Following a service error and another kill by Stennis, Coppin went ahead 24-22 but were not able to win a set point as MSU ran off four straight points.
Set three went back and forth for much of the frame but Morgan scored the final three points to take a 2-1 lead in sets.
In the decider, Coppin held an 8-6 advantage but a 5-0 run by the Bears forced an Eagles timeout. A kill by Stennis got Coppin to within two points but that would be as close it would get as Morgan pulled away for the win.
