The Mount Ida College Women’s Volleyball team hosted Eastern Nazarene College tonight in a non-conference match up. The Mustangs beat the Crusaders for the first time in their history in a sweep, 3-0. MIC was 0-5 against ENC in past meetings.

Game one was very close but the Mustangs pulled out the win with some great offense from freshman outside hitter Chelsea Darnell (Dublin, OH/Dublin Scioto) and Sophomore Amanda Pereira (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford) winning 30-24. There were minimal errors on the home side helping them cruise into game two up 1-0.

It was another close one in game two with the Mustangs winning 30-27 on a well balanced attack with solid performance by Senior captain Adrienne Xenos (Brockton, MA/Brockton) and sophomore libero Megan Svendsen (Sebastopol, CA/Analy). Xenos commanded the net with numerous blocks to give the home team the advantage. Svendsen chipped in three service aces to regain the lead for her team. The score was tied 10 times with eight lead changes. It looked was a rough start for the home team with six errors in the first 10 points, but they pulled it out to go up 2-0.

Game three was closed out by the Mustangs winning 3-25 to complete the sweep. It was another spectacular game by Xenos dominating the middle. Middle hitter Lauren Biondo (Coventry, RI/Conventry) pushed her team head by four, 19-15 to motivate them to never look back.

The Mustangs will host the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) tri–match this weekend with Norwich University and Albertus Magnus College traveling to campus for a 11:00 a.m. start.