LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – The Rider University volleyball team lost to visiting Marist, 3-0, on Sunday afternoon in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) action inside Alumni Gymnasium. The Broncs fell by scores of 25-17, 25-19 and 25-20.

Rider (7-6, 3-3 MAAC) has now split its first three MAAC weekends of play, while the Red Foxes (8-8, 5-1 MAAC) have won five of their first six conference contests.  

Offensively, senior Savannah Logan (Jupiter, FL/Benjamin) paced the Bronc attack with eight kills, while classmates Hailey Riede (Haworth, NJ/Northern Valley-Demarest)  and Perry Williams (Portland, OR/Cleveland) added five and four kills, respectively.

In the middle, freshman Delaney St. Pierre (Colorado Springs, CO/Coronado) had 21 assists, while sophomore Danielle Blanco (El Paso, TX/Franklin) dished out seven assists.

On the defensive end, junior libero Rachelle Runyon (Aliso Viejo, CA/Aliso Niguel) continued her strong play with 14 digs. Logan chipped in nine digs, while Blanco had six of her own.

NOTES & QUOTES
"I really believe that our team is better than we have been performing on Sunday's. For the third week in a row in conference play we've won on Saturday and we're all over the place on our second match of the weekend. This is on them. We need to be better prepared and get the proper amount of rest, especially when we're at home. It's disheartening to see the level of mistakes we're making. Our upperclassmen need to perform at a higher level to take some pressure off our younger players." – Rider Head Coach Chris Feliciano

- Rider had 19 attack errors, three service errors and one block error.
- As a team, the Broncs had 31 kills, 42 digs, five blocks and four service aces.
- The Broncs have now lost back-to-back matches to the Red Foxes after Marist eliminated Rider from last season's MAAC Tournament.  

BRONCS BY THE NUMBERS
- Runyon had 10 or more digs for the 11th straight match. This weekend she averaged 5.83 digs per set as Rider went 1-1. She had 19 digs in yesterday's win over Siena. On the year, she has 203 digs and is averaging better than four digs per game.
- Savannah Logan now has 114 digs on the season, which is a new career-high.
- Hailey Riede currently ranks sixth in program history with 1,103 kills. She is eight kills from entering the top-five in Rider's history.
- Delaney St. Pierre had 21 or more assists for the second straight match.     

UP NEXT
Rider hits the road for a midweek MAAC showdown at Iona on Wednesday, October 3. The tilt with the Gaels is slated to begin at 7:00 pm at the Hynes Athletic Center. Rider is in search of its fifth straight win against Iona after sweeping the Gaels in each of the last two seasons.