JOHNSTOWN, Pa. --- The Golden Eagle volleyball team dropped a road decision to Pitt-Johnstown on Friday night, as Clarion fell 3-0 (14-25, 24-26, 15-25) to the Mountain Cats in a PSAC West matchup.
 
It was a challenging night offensively for the Golden Eagles, who hit just .074 as a team while the Mountain Cats posted a .263 team attack percentage. Cassidy Snider finished with a double-double, posting team-highs of 12 kills and 14 digs. London Fuller had 32 assists and two blocks, while Finley Kearney added seven kills and two blocks of her own.
 
The most competitive set of the night by far was the second, with the Golden Eagles briefly erasing a late UPJ lead to challenge at the end of the set. Clarion built a number of modest leads over the course of the game, including a 13-9 advantage at one point. That came on the heels of a 3-0 run that included a kill by Snider and a block by Lualis Alvarado by Fuller and Charlie Allison. A Gabi DeRenzo service error put the Golden Eagles ahead 15-12 but the Mountain Cats rebounded with five straight points, going ahead 17-15. Kearney cut into that deficit with a solo block against Mallory Pinske, but UPJ eventually built themselves a 23-21 lead.
 
Snider chipped away at that deficit with a kill on the next point, and the Golden Eagles temporarily staved off a set loss with kills on back to back points by Snider and Kearney. That tied the set at 24-all, but Brooke Pelloni broke the tie with a kill and PInske finished off the set with a kill on set point.
 
This set came on the heels of a big Pitt-Johnstown run in the first set, with the Mountain Cats turning what was only a 13-12 lead into a 23-13 advantage with a 10-1 rally. UPJ eventually won the first set 25-14 after Alvarado hit kills on back-to-back points. In the third set, Clarion kept things relatively close early on, with Karlee Berchtold hitting a kill to cut the UPJ lead to 10-8. The Mountain Cats eventually built themselves a 16-12 lead and stretched it into a 22-13 advantage. Taylor Haupt added a kill late in the set, but Journey Welling eventually finished off the match with a kill that made it 25-15.
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