Abington Falls to Berks in Four Sets

Box Score

Penn St.-Abington PSA 10-7,3-3 United East

Penn St.-Berks PSB 8-11,3-3 United East

Penn St.-Abington PSA

10-7,3-3 United East

Final

Oct. 14, 2026

Penn St.-Berks PSB

8-11,3-3 United East

Set Scores
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Penn St.-Abington PSA	23	22	25	22	(1)
Penn St.-Berks PSB	25	25	23	25	(3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | 10/14/2026 12:00:00 AM

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Lancaster Bible College

10/20/2026 | 7:30 p.m.

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Lancaster Bible College

History

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Reading, Pa. – The Penn State Abington women's volleyball team dropped a United East Conference (UEC) contest at Penn State Berks by the score of 3-1 on Wednesday evening at the Beaver Athletics & Wellness Center.

Score: Penn State Berks 3, Penn State Abington 1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-23, 22-25)
Records: Penn State Abington (10-7, 3-3 UEC) | Penn State Berks (8-11, 3-3 UEC)
Location: Reading, Pa. (Beaver Athletics & Wellness Center)

How It Happened

* After dropping the first two sets by the slimmest of margins, Abington bounced back with a 25-23 victory in set three to extend the match. The Nittany Lions trailed 22-17 late in the set after Berks' Shea Leber recorded a kill. However, Abington ripped off seven straight points to setup set-point after a service ace by junior Fabiola Media made the score 24-22. Leber ended the Abington run with another kill, but on the next rally, junior Ellie Van Otten closed things out with a kil of her own to send the match into a fourth set.

* The momentum carried over into the fourth set as Abington opened with an 8-1 run and went on to lead by as many as nine points at 13-4. As the set progressed, Berks began chipping away at the Abington lead and used a 6-0 run to tie the set at 17-17. Van Otten ended the rally with a kill to give Abington a 18-17 lead, but Berks answered six of the next seven points to take a 23-19 advantage. Back-to-back attack errors by Berks brought Abington to within two points at 23-21 but after both teams exchanged kills, the home Lions received a kill from Leber to close out the match at 25-22.

Inside the Box Score

* Van Otten finished with a season-high 20 kills as she committed just three errors on 33 total attacks for a .515 attack percentage. Van Otten recorded eight of her 20 kills in the opening set.

* Senior Kayla Mason hit a career milestone as she registered her 100^th career block with one solo and two block assists in the win. Mason (102) joins teammate Brynn Atkins (172) and former standout Andia Anderson (116) as the only players in program history to reach 100 total blocks.

* Junior Fabiola Medina recorded a match-high 25 digs marking her 11^th 20-plus dig performance of the season. Medina is inching closer to the 1,000-dig milestone as she'll enter her next match with 926 career digs.

* Senior Ryenn Mamrosch finished the match with 36 assists and 10 digs. Mamrosch is also gaining ground on a career milestone. She'll enter her next match 99 assists shy of 1,000 for her Abington career which features 901 assists.

* Senior Zayna Jamaladdin finished with nine kills and eight digs, while freshman Jessie Weeks added eight kills.

* For Berks, Madelyn Caris led the team with 17 kills to go along with 16 digs, while Leber finished with 16 kills. Libby Swoyer paced the offense with 52 assists and 16 digs.

All-Time Series
Tonight marked the 16^th meeting between Abington and Berks since the start of the 2011 season. Abington is now 5-11 versus Berks in the all-time series.

Next Up
Abington returns to action on Tuesday, Oct. 20 as the Nittany Lions host Lancaster Bible College in United East action. Match time is set for 7:30 p.m. at Bryn Athyn College's Asplundh Field House.

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