Misenheimer, NC---The Pfeiffer volleyball team defeated Coker 3-1 (21-30,30-25,30-26,30-24) in Conference Carolinas action Tuesday night. With the win Pfeiffer improves to 7-4 overall and 1-1 in the conference. Coker is now 4-9 and 1-1.

Game one started out evenly as the teams went back and forth until Coker went on a 5-0 run to take a 13-7 lead. A Brittany Dickens kill brought Pfeiffer within three at 14-11 but that was as close as the Falcons could get as the Cobras slowly pulled away for a 30-21 win in game one.

The Falcons came back to win game two. Coker went out to an early 6-1 lead but the Falcons stormed back and cut the lead to 8-7 on a Petra Ljubicic kill. A 5-0 run gave the Falcons a 17-14 advantage but Coker came back and cut the Pfeiffer lead to 21-20. Victoria Parrish stepped up and won the next two points with a kill and a service ace to propel the Falcons to a 30-25 win in game two.

The Falcons came out on fire in game three. Behind the serving of Nicole Cummings Pfeiffer flew to an 8-1 advantage. Coker hung around but when Lauren Spiotta spiked a winner the Falcons led 19-11. The Cobras fought back and eventually cut the Pfeiffer lead to 24-23 but the Falcons responded with a 4-0 run to lead 28-23. The Falcons held on and won game three 30-26.

Behind the strong hitting of Petra Ljubicic the Falcons grabbed a 9-3 lead in game four. Coker came back and cut the lead to 16-12. Te Falcons then went on a 7-0 run led by three aces from Brittany Dickens to take the lead up to 23-12. The Cobras fought hard but the Falcons played well down the stretch and won game four 30-24 and took the match 3 games to 1.

Pfeiffer was led by Lauren Spiotta who had 13 kills.  Brittany Dickens added 11 kills.  Dickens also led the Falcons with 7 aces.  Morgan Liebert had 44 assists.  Coker was led by Megan Haupt with 12 kills.  Margaret Madison had 11 kills.  Courtney Butrym had 35 assists for the Cobras.