Sept. 13, 2014
 
The SUNY Oneotna volleyball team picked up its 10^th win of the season Saturday against Skidmore at the start of the second day of the Union Interleague Challenge. Later that afternoon, they would suffer their third loss of the season at the hands of Nazareth.
 
 The Red and White trailed 3-0, before junior Kristen Polan (Westhampton/Westhampton Beach) registered a kill off a Skidmore serve. After trading points and two-point spurts, the Red Dragons took their first lead of the game at 8-7 on the heels of three straight Skidmore errors. The Following a Thoroughbred response to the beat of a 4-1 run, Oneonta pieced together a six point run capped off by three consecutive Polan kills. Each squad would have one more short spurt, following a trading of points before Paige Carpluk (Yaphank/Bellport) and Kassidy Kievit (Cincinnatus/Cincinnatus Central) teamed up for the game winning block. Oneonta won the first set 25-17.
 
Polan picked up where she left off to being the second set, recording the first two kills of the set before a 9-3 run by Skidmore brought a four point deficit to the Dragons. Skidmore extended the lead to five at 16-11 before Oneonta coach Colleen Cashman called a timeout to regroup. Out of the timeout, the Dragons were focused on the task at hand, slowly chipping away before a game changing 8-0 run highlighted by three Polan kills, a Karly Greco (East Patchogue/Bellport) ace and capped off by a kill by Natalia Poljak (Brewster/Brewster) to set up set point at 24-20 in favor of the Oneonta. They would go on to win the set 25-22 on a Skidmore service error. 
 
Set three would not go so well for the Red and White. Oneonta jumped to an early 4-2 lead, until a five-point spurt from Skidmore sparked the Thoroughbreds 25-14 set three win.
 
Oneonta bounced back in the fourth set. Carpluk got the offense started with a kill from Greco to knot the set at one before moving to the service line and chalking up an ace. Using a six point run highlighted by a pair of kills from both Carpul and Erika Corbin (Kirkwood/Windsor), the Dragons went on to cruise to a 25-13 set win, taking the match 3-1.
 
Polan's 14 kills were a match-high; while Greco dished out a match-leading 25 assists.
 
The nightcap against Nazareth had the opposite result as the Dragons fell 3-1 (25-23, 16-25, 16-25, 13-25).  Corbin led the Dragons' effort with eight kills on 20 attempts, while setters Greco and Erin Avery (Harpursville/Harpursville) handed out a bakers dozen of assists apiece.
 
At the end of the tournament, Polan was named to the All-Tournament Team by the coaches.
 
The Red Dragons travel to the Big Apple for the NYU Invitational where they will take on host NYU Friday at 4 p.m. and Western New England and Richard Stockton on Saturday.