FREDERICK, Md.—The Hood College volleyball team (5-8, 1-3 CAC) fell to Capital Athletic Conference rival St. Mary's College (Md.) (5-12, 2-3 CAC), 3-0, and Gettysburg College (11-6), 3-0, Saturday afternoon in a tri-match at St. Mary's.

In the first match against St. Mary's, the Blazers fell in three sets, 20-25, 9-25, 18-25. Alyssa Eshleman and Brittany Lethbridge contributed five kills apiece while Amy Hagerdon had three and Ashley Whaley, Hayley Rogers and Ashley Park-Brouse chipped in two each. Lethbridge and Hagerdon dug out 12 balls apiece and Hagerdon set up 10 Blazer kills for her fifth double-double of the season. Rogers added four aces and Whaley chipped in a pair of assists.

Hood trailed early in the first set but leapfrogged the Seahawks 5-4 on the second of two straight aces by Rogers. The lead was shortlived however as SMCM ripped off six points in a row to double up the Blazers, 10-5. St. Mary's would not trail again in the stanza, but the Blazers would close the gap to two, 21-19, on a 5-0 run of their own following a timeout. The Seahawks closed out the match on a pair of kills by Michelle Klima.

St. Mary's led wire-to-wire in the second set, amassing 11 kills on 30 attempts with only four errors. In set number three, the Seahawks once again took a sizeable lead at the onset and hung on for the three-set sweep.

In the second match with Gettysburg, the Bullets picked up a 3-0 victory, winning 25-10, 25-19, 25-15. The Bullets scored nine of the first 11 points in the first set and Hood got no closer than seven the rest of the frame. Hood took control in set number two, leading by as many as four following three attack errors by Gettysburg and an ace by Whaley to go up 9-5. Later in the set, trailing 15-12, the Bullets scored six unanswered points to take an 18-15 edge and went on to capture the set, 25-19. The third set featured another big run by Gettysburg during which Virginia Hogan served seven aces to bloster the advantage to 19-5. The deficit was too much to overcome and the Blazers fell, 25-15.

Rogers finished with a team-high seven kills and four total blocks, while Eshleman tallied three kills and seven digs. Whaley served up two aces and led the defense with nine digs, while Keesha Fields and Lethbridge chipped in with two kills apiece. Hagerdon chalked up 13 more assists and five digs while Theresa Schwarzwalder posted six digs.

The Blazers return to action Oct. 4 at Valley Forge Christian for a nonconference match at 7 p.m.