LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL – Senior Savannah Logan (Jupiter, FL/Benjamin) recorded a double-double thanks to a 20-kill, 11-dig effort to lead the third-seeded Rider University volleyball team past hOURglass rival and No. 8 seed Saint Peter's, 3-1, on Friday morning in the second round of the 2018 MAAC Volleyball Championship at the HP Field House at ESPN's Wide World of Sports.

The Broncs (19-10) avenged a setback to the Peacocks (9-25) in the regular-season finale to advance to the MAAC Championship Semifinals for the first time since 2004. Rider won by scores of 19-25, 25-18, 25-16 and 25-22.

Rider used a big, late rally in the fourth frame to knock off Saint Peter's. Trailing, 22-16, in the fourth set with no timeouts remaining the Broncs scored the final nine points to advance. A kill from the Logan gave the Broncs the serve back and made it 22-17 in favor of SPU. With junior Rachelle Runyon (Aliso Viejo, CA/Aliso Niguel) at the service line, a trio of Logan kills and a pair of Peacock errors tied the score at 22 apiece.

Senior Hailey Riede (Haworth, NJ/Northern Valley-Demarest) would then deliver back-to-back kills off feeds from freshman setter Anilee Sher (Poughkeepsie, NY/Spackenill) to bring the Broncs to match point. Runyon put the exclamation point on the victory with a service ace.

Logan and Riede paced the Rider attack, combining for 34 kills. Logan had a career-high 20 kills and Riede chipped in 14. As a team, the Broncs had a hitting percentage of .147.

In the middle, Sher was solid on both sides of the ball as she had another double-double thanks to a 43-assist, 14-dig performance. She now has over 1,000 assists this season.   

On the defensive end, Runyon continued her stellar play. She had a match-high 24 digs for the Broncs. Also on the back line, sophomore Danielle Blanco (El Paso, TX/Franklin) added eight digs.     

NOTES & QUOTES
"I'm extremely proud to be a part of this group. There is no one on this team that is more important than each other. We play an 'us' game. I'm really proud of our group and how we've worked all season. There's been a lot of ups and down throughout the course of the year. Even in set one today we had a player go down with an injury, but we were able to regroup and pull out a good win versus an up-and-coming Saint Peter's team." – Rider Head Coach Chris Feliciano

"It's a team effort for us. Savannah had a great match today. We've had different players stepping up at different points in the year from different positions. We just continue to play an 'us' game." – Feliciano

"We were able to turn it around today with our energy. When we get going, we really get going. We feed of each other. It was an exciting match for us to comeback the way we did." – Senior Savannah Logan

- Rider had 69 points, 51 kills, six service aces, 47 assists, 12 total blocks and 75 digs.
- The Broncs took advantage of 30 Saint Peter's attack errors and six Peacock service errors.
- Rider has now won 17 of the last 18 meetings between the two teams, including two of three this fall.
- The 19 wins are the most for the Broncs under Feliciano as the team won 17 in three of the last four years.
- The 19 wins are the most for Rider since the team won 20 matches in 1994 en route to an NEC Championship.
- Rider has advanced to the MAAC Championship Semifinals for the second time in program history and they are making their first appearance in the conference's final four since 2004.
- The Broncs held the Peacocks to negative hitting percentages in both the second and third frames.

BRONCS BY THE NUMBERS
- Runyon had 10 or more digs for the 27th straight match. On the season, she has a team-best 551 digs. Runyon is the fifth different player in program history to record over 500 digs in as season. She has the fourth-most digs in single-season program history. It marked her 12th match with 20 or more digs this season. Her 551 digs are currently tops in the MAAC.       
- On Tuesday, Runyon was named the MAAC Libero of the Week for the third straight week and the fourth time this season.
- Riede had 10 or more kills for the 19th match this autumn. She did so for the 11th time in her last 12 matches. She ranks third in program history with 1,293 kills. Riede has topped 287 kills in all four of her seasons with the team. Riede had a season-high eight block assists.
- Sher now has 1,018 assists this year. That is the fourth-most in a single season in program history. She is just the fourth different player in Rider history to dish out over 1,000 assists in a year. The double-double was her team-leading 19th and it was her third in a row.  
- Logan registered her career-best eighth double-double of the season. She also set a new career-high with 20 kills. It marked her fifth match this autumn with 15 or more kills.  
- Evelyn Shanefield had one solo block and seven block assists for the Broncs.
- Perry Williams had eight kills and a team-best .357 attack percentage. She added three block assists at the net.  

UP NEXT
Rider advances to the Semifinals of the MAAC Championship. The Broncs will take on No. 2 seed Canisius later today at 7:30 pm at the HP Field House. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN3. Visit GoBroncs.com for the most up to date information on all things Rider volleyball.