ELMIRA, N.Y.- The Keystone College women's volleyball team picked up their first win of the season as they defeated Elmira College 3-2 Tuesday evening.

This marks Heather Benson's first win as the head coach of the Giants.

Keystone took the match with scores of 22-25, 26-24, 25-23, 27-29, 15-8.

The Giants scored the first point of the match before Elmira grabbed their first point. With Keystone up 19-18, Elmira would outscore them 8-3 to win the first set.

The Soaring Eagles had set point in the second set (24-23) until Keystone would steal that set off back-to-back kills from Indya Rogers (Leeds, Ala./Leeds) and a Nataly Bermudez (Las Vegas, NV/Valley) service ace.

In the third set, both squads were tied at 23 apiece before Rogers and Hailey Mowry (Vail, Ariz./Cienega) each record a kill to take the third set.

Keystone started the fourth set hot as they held a 20-10 lead. With Giants up 23-18, the Soaring would score six unanswered to force another set point. The two squads would trade points until Elmira would seal the fourth set and force a fifth.

After Elmira scored the first point of the fifth set, the Giants would score six straight to go up, 6-1. Keystone held an 8-6 lead before rattling six more points to force match point. Elmira was able to get two points back off a bad set and a solo block. Isabella Buonopone would end the match with a kill, giving the Gants their first victory of the 2025 campaign.

Buonopone and Madison Woods (Camrose, Alberta, Canada/Ecole Camrose Composite) each had 13 kills apiece while Rogers had 11. Naema Alatorre (Brownsville, Tex./Idea Frontier) and Hailey Mowry (Vail, Ariz./Cienega) posted 22 and 21 assists, respectively. Nat Reyes (Lamont, Calif./Arvin) and Serenity Marshall (Ridgefield, Wash./Ridgefield) recorded four service aces.

Defensively, Bermudez had 32 digs while Marshall added 12. Bermudez's 32 digs now ranks fifth in the Keystone volleyball record book for digs in a five-set match. Jamilah Higgins (Cincinnati, Ohio/Purcell Martin) collected four total blocks.

For Elmira, Lilyanah Doolittle posted 12 kills and Morgan Sica got 10. Erin Bracken tallied a match high 20 assists and Gabriela Rodriguez contributed 20 digs.

Keystone (1-7) will head back to King's College (Pa.) for a tri -match on Saturday, Sept. 20. The Giants will face the Monarchs once again at noon followed by Immaculata University at 2 p.m.