The Muhlenberg volleyball team won a five-set thriller at Penn State Berks in its final tuneup before opening Centennial Conference play.
The Mules (7-4) won the first set by a comfortable margin, 25-16, but dropped the next two sets. They stormed back to take the fourth set, 25-7, before winning the tense final set, 15-13, to improve to 3-0 in five-setters this season.
Several Muhlenberg players put up incredible numbers. Junior Alyssa Faville became only the second player in program history to pull up at least 40 digs in a match, finishing with 42 – three short of the school record. Senior Emma Eglinton set a career high with 50 assists, and sophomore Esmae Oehler established a career high with 19 kills, five more than her previous best.
Senior Amirah Moody set a career high in digs (13), while freshman Christina Marcin logged 16 kills and 18 digs for her fifth double-double. Sophomore Catherine Maguire had a career-best 7 blocks.
Muhlenberg trailed 11-10 in the fifth set before a kills by Marcin and three straight by sophomore Rachel Jacobs (who finished with a career-high 9 kills) gave the Mules match point at 14-11. The Lions (5-4) scored the next two points to stay alive, but Marcin finished off the comeback win with a kill.
The fourth set marked the first time in program history, since the start of 25-point scoring, that the Mules held an opponent to single digits in a set en route to winning a five-set match. Berks scored the first point of the set, but long service runs by Marcin (six points), Faville (five points) and Eglinton (the final five points) paved the way for the 25-7 final.
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