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Kenyon Kenyon 5-16,1-3 NCAC
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Winner DePauw DPU 12-10,3-2 NCAC
Kenyon Kenyon
5-16,1-3 NCAC
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DePauw DPU
12-10,3-2 NCAC
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Team 1 2 3 F
Kenyon Kenyon 15 16 24 (0)
DePauw DPU 25 25 26 (3)
Hannah Schwemm
Mikayla Rudolph

Game Recap: Volleyball |

Owls can’t tame Tigers on the road

GREENCASTLE, Ind. – After picking up a non-conference victory last Friday against Capital University and postponing Tuesday's match with Oberlin College, the Kenyon College volleyball team came back from an extended break and continued its North Coast Athletic Conference schedule on the road Saturday against DePauw University. 

Despite showing promise late in the contest, it wasn't enough to catch up with the Tigers, who took down the Owls 3-0 by way of 25-15, 15-16, and 26-24 sets. 

Kenyon's best stretch came in the third, jumping out to a 4-1 lead early on thanks to three attack errors and a nice kill from Becca Gwynne. 

DePauw crawled back and knotted the match at 14 later on in the set, as Olivia Gumz led the team with three kills in the middle stretch. Thanks to two service aces from Mariyah Rumpca-Veronese and Lauren Blakemore, Kenyon kept with the Tigers and tied the third at 20, its highest point scoring set of the afternoon. 

The Owls threatened to take the third thanks to a kill from Aura Barinas to send the score to 22-21, but the Tigers would get five out of the next seven points to win the set 26-24 and the match 3-0. 

In the second set, the Owls held tight with the Tigers through the early goings. After stringing a 3-0 run to open the set, DePauw came back with a 6-2 run to take a narrow lead early on. 

Barinas added three kills in the second set and Gumz and Hannah Schwemm each added two, but three separate 3-0 runs for the Tigers kept the Owls at arm's length, taking the second set 25-16. 

Back in the first set, DePauw jumped out to a 9-3 lead after four straight points by the home team. Five points was the closest deficit the Owls would see in the opening frame, as the Tigers held a 15-10 advantage in kills. Although firing off its best hitting percentage of the afternoon, the .464 to .167 hitting mismatch made it tough for the squad to go on runs. 

Rumpca-Veronese led the team in kills in the first set with four, but it wasn't enough to stop DePauw's efficient offense, falling 15-25. 

For the game, Kenyon amassed a .117 hitting percentage with 26 kills and six service aces. Gumz, Barinas, and Rumpca-Veronese were all tied at the top with six kills, with Barinas leading the way with a .150 hitting percentage. Schwemm dished out a team high 20 assists and tied the lead in blocks (1.5) with Gwynne and digs (10) with Blakemore. 

Schwemm's Saturday assist output put her past the milestone of 1,000 for her career. Her current total now sits at 1,006 and she joins 12 other players in program history to crack the four-digit mark.  

The Owls will host its final home game of the 2025 season on Wednesday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. against John Carroll University. 
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