Box Score

Berea, Ohio – The Oberlin College volleyball team dropped a thrilling five set match to the Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets, 21-25, 25-20, 25-17, 14-25, 11-15.
 
Hannah Tyburski's had a team-high 16 kills, while Krista Langhans and Meredith Leung each dropped in four aces, but it wasn't quite enough for Oberlin to come out on top.
 
The two sides went back and forth in the early stages of the first set. Tied 8-8, BW began to pull away late with a 19-14.  A few defensive miscues and a steady Yellow Jacket offensive put the Yeowomen at match point.
 
With the set slipping away, senior Molly Powers served seven straight points to force a BW timeout at 24-21. Powers finished with a team-high 16 digs and two aces in Berea.
 
Immediately following the break the Yellow Jackets closed out the first set, 25-21.
 
The Yeowomen gave up a lead early in the second set. Trailing 15-12 Oberlin struck for seven points on a 7-1 run. The Yellow Jackets tried to regain control but the Yeowomen scored three unanswered to claim the second set, 25-20.
 
Lueng served up one of her four aces of the night to begin the third set. Baldwin Wallace answered and jumped out to a 7-4 lead early on. With the help of Langhan's two service aces, the Yeowomen responded with eight unanswered.

Oberlin maintained a lead on the Yellow Jackets in the later stages of the third to cruise to a 25-17 victory.
 
Leading two sets to one, the Yeowomen fell behind early, 4-0, in the fourth. Oberlin nearly managed to catch the Yellow Jackets until BW extended their lead to 10-4 to force head coach Erica Rau to burn a timeout.
 
Baldwin Wallace continued to extend the Yeowomen deficit by completing a 15-10 run to move the match to a fifth set.
 
The fifth set began with yet another service ace from Lueng, but the Yellow Jackets stopped the Yeowomen momentum by claiming the next three points. The Yeowomen pulled back to even, 3-3, with a pair of stellar attacks and solid defense from Powers and junior defensive specialist Shavonne Stanek.
 
The two squads traded the lead until Oberlin took a 7-6 advantage. A vicious kill from sophomore Ave Spencer put the Yeowomen up 8-6, but not before BW evened the fifth set at 10-10.
 
Tied at ten all the Yeowomen surrendered four straight points before dropping the fifth set, 15-11.

The loss moves Oberlin to 2-3 overall as they enter competition this weekend.
 
Oberlin volleyball will return to the court on Friday night, September 5, in the 2014 home opener verse SUNY Geneseo. Action from inside Philips Gymnasium is slated for 7 p.m.