RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Felician College made school women's volleyball history by sweeping a tri-match with visiting Goldey-Beacom College and Bowie State University on Saturday afternoon at Job Gymasium. The event was Felician's 2014 home opener and was played during the College's Homecoming and Family Weekend festivities.

The victories marked the first time in the 11-year history of Felician's program that the Golden Falcons won both ends of a tri-match, and the first time that they earned two wins on the same day. Felician opened the afternoon with a four-set Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference triumph over Goldey-Beacom, marking the first Felician coaching victory for first-year head man John Chang of Cranford.

Felician junior middle Kayla Gallagher (Bloomingburg, N.Y./Pine Bush) made her season debut after missing her team's first four matches due to injury. Gallagher combined to hit .390 on the day, totaling 18 kills and seven blocks.

The Golden Falcon offense was efficient all afternoon, both on the serve and on the attack. Running through junior setter Susie McKeever (North Fort Myers, Fla./North Fort Myers), Felician posted a season-high .263 team attack percentage with 12 service aces against Goldey-Beacom, then came back to hit .190 with 13 aces in the day's final match, a three-set win against Bowie State.

The day's first contest featured a combined 30 ties and 15 lead changes in the four sets, with Felician (2-4, 1-2 CACC) emerging victorious, 3-1 (26-24, 25-19, 19-25, 25-19). The hosts rallied from a 16-9 first-set deficit to tie the set at 20-20. With the score still deadlocked at 24-24, the Golden Falcons completed the comeback with an Emma Reijonen (Joensuu, Finland/Lyseo Joensuum) kill and an ace from Sarah Shebel (Chandler, Ariz./Perry).

Felician won seven of the final eight points in Set 2. After Goldey-Beacom extended the match, the Golden Falcons jumped out to a 19-11 Set 4 edge en route to victory.

Senior middle Tonia Ford (Bayonne, N.J./Bayonne) hit .458 for Felician with a career-high 15 kills. McKeever set up a career-best 45 assists and added four kills and 12 digs, and freshman outside Sally Taylor (San Diego, Calif./SDCE) earned her first collegiate double-double with 12 kills and 10 digs. Junior Paty Giemza (Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland/Lodz) amassed 22 digs, five assists and three aces from her libero position.

Senior outside Kadi McCoy (Dallastown, Pa./Dallastown) topped the Lightning with 15 kills, nine digs and six aces. GBC sophomore Grace McCarthy hit .303 with 13 kills.

Felician concluded the day with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-11, 25-10) non-conference mastery of the Bulldogs (1-10), never trailing in the final two sets. McKeever produced seven aces, one shy of the program record, and added four kills and 21 assists, while Gallagher hit .450 with nine kills and two blocks. The Golden Falcons held BSU to a negative attack percentage. Sophomore India Mason (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) led Bowie State with four kills.

Between Felician's two matches, Goldey-Beacom (6-6, 2-2) earned a split of the day with a 3-0 (25-16, 25-8, 25-15) win over BSU, hitting .325 for the match. McCoy had nine kills, seven digs and three blocks for the Lightning, and Yaje Ngundam (Bowie, Md./Bowie) paced the Bulldogs with six kills and seven digs.

Chang came to Felician with 46 career victories, having coached at Polytechnic University from 2005-07.