WOLFVILLE, NS - The Acadia volleyball team took one step forward and one step back in their travel for post season play. Grabbing the first of two matches this weekend against the Memorial Sea-Hawks - 3-2 in Saturday's match-up, the Axewomen allowed Memorial to win the second, fourth and final sets to take a 3-2 win in the weekend's second and final match.

Head Coach Joffre Ribout was happy and cautious with yesterday's win. "After a great start we were able to fight hard through the last four sets. Memorial came back and pushed us from the brink but we were able to battle back from our mistakes and their tough play to get the win".

The story was similar today but this time the Axewomen were on the losing end of a tight match.

Taking the lead for the entire first set, Acadia captured a convincing 25-19 win with each of the starting hitters posting a kill and Alyssa Berry leading with three.

Out to quick 8-3 lead, the Axewomen eventually loss control when Sea-Hawk Chantel Jones recorded two kils to give Memorial a 22-19 lead that turned into a 25-21 win to tie the match at one.

A neck and neck battle followed in set three where only a maximum of three points separated the teams throughout the game. The set was decided on an attack error, giving Acadia a 28-26 win and 2-1 lead heading into the fourth game.

With a 16-9 lead, the Sea-Hawks were only challenged in the later stage of the fourth set when the Axewomen blessed with several Memorial attack errors and a timely service aces by Alyssa Berry and a Kristen Bolduc kill that brought the Axewomen to within five points. The Sea-Hawks would take the fourth set 25-19 and push the fifth and final set to 17.

Players of the game this past weekend include Saturday's Subway Player of the Game Meg Rector and today's Sea-Hawk Chantel Jones.

Jones psoted an impressive 0.344 hitting percentage and match high 16 kills while Axewoman Nicole Davidson added 14 kills to Acadia's 47. Teammate Kristen Bolduc added 11. Memorial's Erin Bursey and Sam March had 14 and 15 kills respectively and setter Beth Forsey had 55 sets on the team's 60 kills.

The Axewomen slip from fourth to sixth in the standings with a 5-9 record and 10 points, while Memorial edges forward with 12 points and in fourth place. The StFX X-Women's win against UNB today pushes the X-Women ahead of Acadia into fifth. Acadia has three games remaining that include StFX and Cape Breton next weekend and wrapping up the regular season at home versus StFX on Sat. Feb. 11.