Beaver Falls, PA – Play-off time can sometimes mean nervous time for some teams. On Tuesday night, the Geneva College women's volleyball team was certainly experiencing some post-season nervousness early on against Grove City in the Presidents' Athletic Conference quarter-finals. After spotting the Wolverines the first set, Geneva shook off the nerves and responded with wins in the next three sets to beat Grove City 3-1 with set scores of 14-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-19.
 
"If our women didn't have some nervousness in the play-offs, I would be concerned," said head coach Wendy Smith. "We always expect some anxiety early in these matches but the way they responded after the first set was really good to see. We have responded well several times in the last few weeks and it's a good sign that we can do so. Moving on, however, it will important to get off to a better start and play solid volleyball from start to finish."
 
The Golden Tornadoes will definitely need to be at their best on Friday night when they travel to New Wilmington to take on top seed and host Westminster College at 6 pm in the first of two semi-finals that night. The winners on Friday will meet in Saturday's PAC championship at Westminster at 4 pm with the conference winning gaining an automatic bid to the NCAA post-season.
 
Geneva started slowly on Tuesday night and didn't give Grove City much resistance with 14 errors in what was a rusty start. Geneva quickly got back on track and back to the formula that has worked so well of late as the Golden Tornadoes pushed their win streak to six in a row and moved their overall record to 19-11 while the Wolverines dropped to 7-19.
 
Sydney McNulty, who was on Monday named the conference player of the week, continued her stellar play with a team best 19 kills and just four errors with a hitting percentage of .300. Teammate Kacey Costal posted double digit kills with ten on the night. Daphne Hunsinger came within one kill of her eighth triple-double of the year with 32 assists and 16 digs to go with her nine kills. On defense, McKenna Shick led the way with 32 digs while Kayla Couglin was solid on the back line with 18 digs.
 
"We got contributions from several folks tonight," said Smith. "It was a solid team win in what was a great atmosphere for college volleyball."
 
Geneva College is a Christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to God and neighbor. Offering over 80 traditional undergraduate majors and programs, fully online Adult Degree Programs, and high-demand graduate degrees, Geneva's programs are recognized for their high quality. U.S. News & World Report ranks Geneva as a Top Three Best Value Regional University with one of the Top 100 engineering programs in the nation. Adhering to the truth of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God's Word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today's world.