Langhorne, PA – Cairn women's volleyball hosted Summit University on Saturday afternoon and won their first set of the season before falling to the Defenders 3-1. The Highlanders played their best match all season and finished with 20 total kills, 19 assists, and 15 aces.
 
The Highlanders opened the first set down 8-1 but quickly turned the game around and rallied off a six-point run to get to 8-7. Cairn went on another long run in the middle of the set to go from down 13-10 to leading the set 18-13. The run was marked by three service aces from Whitney Seidel.
 
Seidel led the team in kills with a season-high 10, as well as service aces with seven and digs with 15. Abigail Litman followed her with six kills. Haley Sheehan had four kills and four service aces in the match.
 
The Defenders matched the Highlanders in the first set with a long run of their own and re-took the lead at 20-18. The Highlanders then tied the match at 21-21 and won the last four points of the set to win 25-21.
 
Summit University was led by Callie Kitowski with 13 kills in the match, followed by Torrie Erdman with eight. The Defenders also had 11 service aces and 57 total digs. Samantha Snow finished with 20 assists as the setter.
 
Cairn stayed right with Summit in set two until the Defenders went on a five-point run to lead 17-11. The Highlanders couldn't recover and lost the set 25-16. A similar scenario happened in set three as the Defenders took a 19-10 lead and went on to win 25-14.
 
The Highlanders looked to be in the game in the fourth set with the score tied up at 16-16. However, a run of four points by the Defenders, including two service aces, put them up 20-16. The Highlanders got two points back but could not regain the lead and Summit went on to win 25-19.
 
Cairn fell to 0-13 overall with the loss and 0-5 in the conference. Summit improved to 2-13 overall and 1-2 in the CSAC. The Highlanders will try to take the positives out of the match before they host Neumann University this Tuesday, Oct. 6, for a 7 p.m. game.