SCRANTON, Pa.— Eastern Women's Volleyball snapped its three game skid with a pair of impressive wins on the second day of the University of Scranton Invitational. The Eagles (8-3) hit .302 as a team to dispatch Union College in three sets in the first match of the day. Eastern then rallied to beat the Rowan University Profs in five to close out the weekend. In the two matches, Hannah Pringle had 40 kills and 28 digs, Alexis Standford had 38 kills, and Viviana Fragoso had 38 digs.

The two matches represented different ends of a spectrum for the Eagles in terms of knowing the opponent. Eastern and Union have never played. Eastern and Rowan, on the other hand, are very familiar foes. The two Philadelphia area teams have played 20 times since 1996 and 11 times since 2015. Rowan's head coach Deana Jesperson was an assistant at Eastern in the 1990's and was the person who presented Eastern Head Coach Mark Birtwistle when he was inducted into Eastern's Hall of Honor. The two programs are very familiar. Though the matches are often very close, the Eagles have always found a way to win.

The same thing happened today. After the two teams split the first two sets by identical 25-21 scores, the Profs delivered a 25-13 beat-down in the third. Rowan was 12-for-14 on sideout chances and hit .571 with 13 kills. Pringle had four kills in the set, btu the Eagles hit only .160 and were under it from the start.

"Rowan is probably the most athletic team we have played so far," Head Coach Mark Birtwistle said of the game. "It was a tough come-from-behind win against a team with that kind of firepower."

The Eagles had lost five-set matches to Haverford and Stockton heading into the weekend.

Pringle had 18 kills through the first three sets, but the Eagles made a big run with their senior hitter a the service line. Playing six rotations for the first time in her career this weekend, Pringle posted double-doubles in each of the three matches.

Coming into this weekend, Pringle had served three times in her career. Early in the critical fourth set she served for four points to put the Eagles up 7-4. Standford had a kill and a block in the sequence and Josie Arezina also had a kill.

While Rowan cut the Eastern lead to a single point at 17-16, the Eagles kept the edge for the rest of the set and rode a late serving run from Fragoso to a 25-20 win. Veronica Faber delivered a big solo block late to put he Eagles up five, and Pringle delivered the final kill of the set to force the short fifth frame.

The Eagles played without a hitting error in dominating the fifth set. Standford spent much of the frame in the front row. She delivered four kills and a blcok before rotating out for the final few points.

the Eagles led 5-2 in the fifth. After Rowan earned a point on serve, the Eagles regained control with a kill from Standford and a block from Standford and Arezina. Standford delivered a kill to make it 8-5 on an out-of-system hit off a pass from Arezina.

With Standford out and Pringle in the front row, Grace Cooper served three points —with an ace and a Pringle kill— to take the Eagles to match point. Jessie Schreiber and Maddie Golia combined on a block to end the match.

Pringle finished the match with 27 kills and 15 digs. Though Rowan targeted her on the serve, she hit .379 with 14 kills on first-ball attacks.

In the match against Union (8-5), the Eagles were incredibly efficient on serve-receive. They went 15-for-16 in claiming the opening set 25-15 and were 11-of-13 in taking the third set 25-13. With Union not able to generate offense behind their serve, the Eagles dominated the odd number sets.

Union led 21-19 in the second set, but a three-point serving run from Sarah Furey flipped the game in Eastern's favor. Eastern scored two of its final three points on blocks. Shreiber and Maddie Golia combined on the first one, and Pringle combined with Golia for the 25-22 win.

Standford was unstoppable in the attack against Union. The junior outside hitter delivered 20 kills on only 32 attacks. Kallie Rogers finished with 24 assists. Golia had five blocks in the match and Faber had four.

Pringle earned all-tournament honors for the weekend.

The Eagles start MAC Commonwealth play at Widener this Wednesday. The Pride won matches against Neumann and Rochester Institute of Technology today.