Box Score The third-ranked Colorado College volleyball team fell short in its first road matches of the season, dropping a pair of matches to Trinity University and No. 5 Southwestern University in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon in Sherman, Texas.
 
Senior outside hitter Abbe Holtze led the team with a combined 24 kills on the day, while adding 25 digs on defense. Junior middle hitter Glenna Yancey added 17 kills and a team-high eight blocks.
 
The Tigers dropped the first match of the day to Trinity, which is currently receiving votes in the national poll, 3-1.
 
Trinity (9-3, 3-1 SCAC) won the first two sets 25-21, 25-20, but CC came back in the third set with a 25-22 win. The Tigers were unable to tie the match as Trinity took the fourth set, 25-21.
 
Holtze led the team with 17 kills and added 14 digs for her fifth double-double of the season against TU. Freshman setter Lizzy Counts also picked up a double-double with 19 assists and 13 digs for her seventh of the season.
 
No. 5 Southwestern (15-0, 5-0 SCAC) proved too much for CC in its final match of the day, falling 26-24, 25-16, 25-13. The Pirates hit a .256 attack percentage with 47 kills on 121 attempts with just 16 errors.
 
Before coming into the weekend, the Tigers had held their opponents to a combined .042 hitting percentage, however, in the pair of losses CC allowed a combined .199 attack percentage.
 
Junior outside hitter Reagan Folaron and freshman middle hitter Marguerite Spaethling led the team against Southwestern with eight kills each. Holtze also added seven kills and 11 digs.
 
Counts nearly earned her eighth double-double of the season with 19 assists and nine digs, while freshman libero Anna Gurolnick led the team with 19 digs and had 35 digs on the day.  
 
Colorado College (11-2, 3-2 SCAC) looks to bounce back tomorrow with a pair of matches against Texas Lutheran University at 10 a.m. CT and Schreiner University at Noon CT on Sunday.