Tuesday evening saw the Alma College Volleyball team hit the road to take on MIAA foe and host Olivet College. In a wild five set match, the Scots came from behind to defeat the Comets by a score of 3-2 (24-26, 25-14, 20-25, 32-30 and 15-12).

With the victory, the Scots snapped a seven match losing streak and are now 7-7 overall and improved to 3-1 in the league. Olivet is now 2-7 in 2014 and 1-4 in the MIAA.

"We always struggle to stay consistent at Olivet," remarked Alma Head Coach Sarah Dehring. "We did not play our best volleyball, but we came together for the win. We led in every statistic, but missed a lot of serves at critical times. We just need to clean the unforced errors up and continue to work on our communication."

In the first set, the Scots fell behind 13-7 but Alma would fight back and tie it at 19-19. Alma would then find themselves down 24-21 but created another deadlock at 24-24. However, Olivet dug deep and notched the final points to go up 1-0.

Alma played a very solid second set and defeated Olivet 25-14 to even the match at 1-1. The third set was close throughout and was tied at 16-16 before the Comets took control. The home team scored six of the next seven points en route to an ultimate 25-20 victory and a 2-1 advantage.

The fourth set proved to be an epic as the teams fought valiantly before the Scots eventually prevailed 32-30, sending it into a fifth and deciding set. In the fourth, Alma led 17-11 and 19-14 before Olivet scored six of the next seven to tie it at 20-20. The teams would stay within one of each other before Sr. OH Kayla Muxlow (Brown City/Brown City) finally gave Alma the win on a kill from So. S. Mary Dulzo (Novi/Mercy).

The fifth and deciding set was very close throughout, as each team had just one lead a piece of two points and was deadlocked at 12-12. The Scots then took advantage of three Olivet mistakes and closed out the hard-fought 15-12 win and an overall match triumph of 3-2.

Dulzo paced the Scots with 41 assists and had six digs and one service ace in the win. So. OH/DS Maressa Miller (Grand Blanc/Grand Blanc) recorded 14 assists and 11 digs, while So. OH/DS Sasha Laykova (Ternopil, Ukraine/Forest Hills Northern) contributed 11 kills and 18 digs. Muxlow had 11 kills overall, while Jr. OH/MH Maggie Miller (Frankfort/Frankfort) and So. RS/OH Kendall Sells (Muskegon/Mona Shores) had 10 and 11 kills respectively.

In addition, Jr. OH/DS Hannah Guilford (Hartland/Hartland) had 12 kills and 20 digs and Sr. OH/DS Laura Walker (Roscommon/Roscommon) notched 14 digs and four service aces.

Up next for the Scots is a home date with MIAA rival Albion College on Friday, September 19. Match time is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. at Art Smith Arena.