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Addie VanderWeide hits a kill down the line vs. Bethany.
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Pictured from, left Hope's Samantha Seib and Addie VanderWeide
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Bethany (WV) BET 22-8,9-1 PAC
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Winner Hope Hope 28-2,8-0 Michigan Intercol. Ath. Assn.
Bethany (WV) BET
22-8,9-1 PAC
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Hope Hope
28-2,8-0 Michigan Intercol. Ath. Assn.
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Bethany (WV) BET 21 10 19 (0)
Hope Hope 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Alan Babbitt

Second-Ranked Volleyball Charges Past Bethany in NCAA Championships Opener

With a herd of Bethany Bison charging early, the second-ranked Hope College volleyball team faced a few unsettling moments early in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championships.

Once the Flying Dutch found their footing, they proved to be the ones on the move — to the next round.

Hope defeated Bethany College (W.Va.) in three sets on Thursday, winning 25-21, 25-10, 25-19 in front of a DeVos Fieldhouse crowd of 792.

The Flying Dutch (28-2) advanced to host No. 23-ranked University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in a second-round match. At 4:30 p.m., Pacific Lutheran University (Wash.) will play No. 17 Transylvania University (Pa.).

Head coach Becky Schmidt said Bethany (22-8 overall and Presidents Athletic Conference co-champions) gave Hope "some fits" early.

"I want to give Bethany a ton of credit. They were a scrappy, feisty team [who] played with a lot of heart and a lot of passion," Schmidt said. "The way they were able to stay in system and run their middles, especially in the first part of the first set really kind of knocked us on our heels a little bit. I was impressed with the way we kind of responded to that. We fought back and were finally able to get a little bit better sense of our intention at the end of the first set. 

"That translated into some really good serving going into the second set. [We] put them into some difficult situations and made it easy for our defense. In the third set, I think our defense just exploded. We found our rhythm defensively and that translated into creating good opportunities offensively for us."

The Flying Dutch scored eight of the final 10 points of the first set, then recorded the first nine points of the second set.

Junior outside hitter Addie VanderWeide (Grand Rapids, Michigan / Grand Rapids Christian HS) spearheaded Hope's attack with 13 kills. The AVCA Region 7 and MIAA Player of the Year hit at a .345 clip.

Junior middle blocker Alison DeWeerd (Kentwood, Michigan / South Christian) also reached double figures with 11. The all-region and All-MIAA selection hit at a .500 clip.

Sophomore setter Lauren Lee (Plymouth, Michigan / Saline), an all-region and All-MIAA honoree, totaled 36 assists.  

Defensively, Hope earned a 59-47 edge in digs. Senior Olivia Fiebing (Traverse City, Michigan / Traverse City Central) and junior Samantha Seib (Elkhorn, Wisconsin / Catholic Central) led the Flying Dutch in digs with 14 and 10, respectively.

Bethany received a team-high six kills from middle blocker Riley Fenton.

With the win, Hope earns its third all-time meeting with Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the first in NCAA Championships play. The series is tied at 1-1.

Stevens Point (23-10) advanced with a come-from-behind 19-25, 8-25, 25-23, 25-20, 15-7 victory against Case Western Reserve University. Four Pioneers finished in double figures in kills.

Stevens Point-CWRU boxscore

In Friday's other games, Transylvania topped the University of Mount Union (Ohio) 25-16, 25-23, 20-25, 25-13 and Pacific Lutheran knocked off the region's second seed, Carnegie Mellon University, 25-21, 25-20, 25-18.
 
 
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