GRINNELL, Iowa – The Macalester College volleyball team played Cornell College and Grinnell College on the final day of the Central/Grinnell Tournament Saturday afternoon at Grinnell. The Scots fell to Cornell, 3-0 and to the host Pioneers in four sets.

After dropping the first set to Cornell, 25-17, Macalester trailed 24-20 in the second set before mounting a late comeback. Three kills by sophomore Hannah Eisenman (Cary, N.C./Green Level) and a service ace from sophomore Greta Seppanen (St. Paul, Minn./Como Park) tied the score at 24-24. After the Rams tallied a kill and an attack error to keep the set knotted at 25-25, a kill from junior Alia Sherrow (Chattanooga, Tenn./Baylor School) gave the Scots set point. But Cornell's Mia Tubbs registered back-to-back kills, and a service ace ended the set in the Rams' favor, 28-26. Cornell closed out the match with a 25-14 win in the third set.

Eisenman, senior Avery Rahe (Olathe, Kan./Olathe) and sophomore Adonia Anene (North Hollywood, Calif./The Buckley School) each tallied seven kills to lead the Scots. Junior Hannah Morrow (Raleigh, N.C./Millbrook) and sophomore Camilia Jones (Orlando, Fla.) split the setting duties, with Morrow recording nine assists and eight digs and Jones posting 10 assists and five digs. Seppanen had a team-best nine digs.

Against Grinnell, the Pioneers grabbed a 25-22 win in the first set despite four kills from Rahe. The Scots almost pulled even, as a kill by Rahe tied the second set at 24-24 before Grinnell scored the final two points for a 26-24 win. Facing a sweep, Macalester fought back and earned a 25-21 victory in the third set, with Eisenman tallying match point with a kill. In the fourth set, Anene and sophomore Ella Cohen-Richie (Chicago, Ill./Univ. of Chicago Laboratory Schools) each had three kills apiece, but it was not enough to keep Grinnell from taking the fourth set, 25-19 to win the match.

Rahe finished with a team-best 13 kills and a .273 hitting percentage, with Cohen-Richie adding eight kills and Anene recording seven kills and 13 digs. Morrow delivered 18 assists and 16 digs, Jones had 13 assists and three aces, and Seppanen registered 12 digs.

The Scots head to Portland, Ore., for the Lewis & Clark Tournament Sept. 5-6. Macalester will face Schreiner University on Friday and Colorado College and Lewis & Clark on Saturday.