After a 3-0 loss to Maryland at home Friday night, the volleyball team lost to Boston College 3-1 on Sunday afternoon at Reynolds Coliseum.

Boston College took the first game 30-26. During the second game, the Wolfpack started out fast, leading the Eagles 2-0, but eventually lost the game 30-16 and went into halftime down two games.

Coach Charita Stubbs talked to the team about its performance during halftime, acknowledging that youth played a role in how the team performed during the second game.

Freshman libero Lindsay Benac said Stubbs let the team know they were doing their job.

“We’re following the scouting report very well,” Benac said. “She didn’t question that we were desired to win. She said that we were lacking execution and that’s what we needed to come in and do.”

State would return from halftime and hold off Boston College 30-28. The Pack would keep the fourth game close, but it would fall 30-27 — losing the match 3-1.

Overall, Stubbs said she was proud of the way that her team played.

“They gave it their all,” Stubbs said. “It really boiled down to the fact that we didn’t execute well enough. It wasn’t because of passion, it wasn’t because of desire, it wasn’t because of anything but our ability to execute in certain situations. So, I was proud of them.”

Late in the fourth game, Stubbs was upset with one of the calls from the match.

“The ref had established the entire match that he wasn’t going to listen to the lines people,” Stubbs said.

“And all the sudden, the lines person calls a touch on a block, and he didn’t call it and then for whatever reasons, he decided to listen to the lines person, so my thing is, you don’t wait until now, the end of the match, in a crucial heat of time to decide to listen to them. Had he had listen to him, I wouldn’t have said anything.”

Sophomore Chrissy Zirpolo would lead the team in total attacks with 46, while freshman setter Alex Smith led in the assists category with 44. Zirpolo said the second game loss was a result in the team making a lot of unforced errors. But with the teams play the entire match, she felt the team played very differently than it has all year.

“I thought we played really well as a team and it was the first time this year we’ve really come together and played together instead of ourselves individually,” Zirpolo said.

Smith said the team will go into practice this week with a different type of attitude.

“We will go in with a lot of confidence,” Smith said. “I think that we are all going to work really hard.”

Zirpolo also echoed Smith’s expectation of the week ahead.

“I feel like we know how to play together now, before we didn’t,” Zirpolo said. “[Sunday] really proved that we do.”