HUNTINGDON, Pa. - Catholic volleyball dropped a pair of contests in Saturday's tri-match hosted by top-ranked Juniata. The Cardinals fell in three sets to the unbeaten Eagles before falling in a heartbreaking fifth set versus Lynchburg. 

MATCH 1 - Juniata 3, Catholic 0 (15-25, 16-25, 9-25)

The top-ranked Eagles were as advertised in Saturday's first matchup of the day, hitting .384 behind Mackenzie Coley's 16 kills on a .452 hitting percentage. 

Olivia Blondin, Tanya Sichling, and Vivian O'Brien combined for 13 kills in the match to lead Catholic on the offensive end. 

Defensively, senior libero Gaby Hernandez-Ferraiuoli had 19 of the team's 34 digs, a match-high. Sichling was second on the Cardinals with six digs. 

Blondin, Erin Faughnan, and Izzy Steinberg each recorded a service ace in the match for Catholic. 

Setter Olivia Foley handed out 41 assists and had four aces for Juniata while Sophie Repholz served up six aces in the match. 

MATCH 2 - Lynchburg 3, Catholic 2 (25-22, 22-25, 14-25, 27-25, 15-17)

A decisive fifth set was the difference as the Cardinals fell 3-2 in a non-conference matchup with Lynchburg on Saturday afternoon. Catholic took the first set and kept the match alive with a fourth-set win, but ultimately fell late, 17-15, in the deciding set. 

Blondin put down 25 kills in the match while Sichling picked up 14 of her own in the contest. The senior outside hit .242 in the match and remains the go-to option with 66 attacks. Sichling hit .211 on 38 swings while Faughnan hit .412 for the match with nine kills on 17 attacks. 

Catholic totaled nearly 60 assists with Claudia Morales logging a career-high 32 assists. Hernandez-Ferraiuoli had 28 digs, her second-most this season, and also picked up three service aces in the match. The senior is just 111 digs away from 1,000 for her career. 

The fifth and final set proved to be a wild one as Catholic ripped off five straight points to go ahead 13-9 after a Grace Guerin block. However, the Hornets tied the set at 13 with four straight points of their own. Catholic took its final lead at 14-13, but Lynchburg took four of the final five points to earn the non-conference win. 

Catholic finishes the Landmark Conference regular season at 6-3 and will await the result of Elizabethtown's final match to see if it will be seeded third or fourth in the conference tournament.