FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Freshman Whitney Peterson hit .320 with 41 kills to earn a place on the all-tournament team as the Goshen College volleyball team split four matches over the weekend at the Lyz Lykowski Memorial Tournament hosted by Indiana Tech.

Peterson led her team in kills and finished the tournament with only nine errors on 100 attempts, adding three blocks, a pair of assists, and 11 digs. Goshen finished with 168 kills and a .198 hitting percentage.

Lexa Magnuson added 37 spike winners and Hallie Vanitvelt chipped in 32, with each hitter playing in all 14 sets. Kelsey Smith (75) and Lisa Rodriguez (58) led the team in assists, while the 206 Goshen digs were split among 13 players.

Goshen opened the tournament with two wins on Friday, sweeping Ave Maria before going the distance in a five-set win over Indiana University Southeast, a match in which four of the five sets were decided by five points or fewer. Saturday, the Maple Leafs found the shoe on the other foot as they dropped a pair of three-set decisions to the University of the Cumberlands and Indiana University East.

The only team Goshen did not face, host Indiana Tech, tied for the tournament crown. The Warriors were joined by the Cumberlands and IU East, who each went 3-1; IU East was declared champion because the Red Wolves won the most sets.

Statistics and results from Goshen's four matches are below.

FRIDAY: Goshen def. Ave Maria 25-21, 25-18, 25-11 (stats)

In the first-ever meeting between the two schools, Goshen posted a straight-set win over the Gyrenes. The Maple Leafs racked up 50 kills while allowing only 30 in a match that lasted just an hour and 10 minutes.

Goshen hit .308 or better in all three stanzas, accumulating just 13 attack errors in 108 attempts, and four of those were Ave Maria blocks. Magnuson and Vanitvelt each had double-digit kills; Peterson added nine. AMU hit .303 in the first set, but their hitting percentage fell off to the point where Goshen forced more errors than kills in the final stanza.

"Ave Maria had four players over six feet tall, which is more height than anyone we have seen," said Goshen coach Jim Routhier. "But we were able to run them to death from side to side, picking up steam as the match went on."

Danielle Plank and Kelsey Smith each had six digs to lead Goshen.

FRIDAY: Goshen def. IU Southeast 25-21, 22-25, 25-20, 19-25, 17-15 (stats)

Two days after playing the second-longest set in school history, the Maple Leafs played the only five-set match of the entire tournament in a victory over IU Southeast. Goshen took 1-0 and 2-1 leads only to see the Grenadiers level the match in each instance before holding on 17-15 in the deciding set.

Goshen won 108 points to IU Southeast's 106: the teams each had exactly 63 kills and five blocks, but the Maple Leafs did that in 15 fewer attempts (185 to 170) and had seven fewer errors.

Peterson had a match-high 19 kills: Magnuson and Vanitvelt added 10 apiece, while Natalie Hubby ended eight points with spikes and hit .467. Magnuson also led the team with three blocks, while Smith had 26 assists and Lisa Rodriguez 25.

"This was a great match against a very good team," Routhier said. "It's impossible to explain how important it is to have people hitting well, but that's what we did."

SATURDAY: Cumberlands def. Goshen 25-15, 25-12, 25-20 (stats)

The luck of Goshen's Friday appeared to run out early Saturday afternoon when the Maple Leafs dropped a three-set loss to visiting University of the Cumberlands.

The Patriots out-killed the Maple Leafs 38 to 22, with nearly half of the Goshen winners (nine) coming in the first set. Lexa Magnuson had nine kills, but no other player wearing a purple and white jersey had more than five.

UC's Morgan Schlatter posted a match-high 11 kills, and teammate Samantha Stuckwisch had 15 assists to lead all players. Goshen had 20 assists as a team, with Smith (12) getting the majority of those.

In the back row, Angela Dedering had 13 assists for Goshen.

SATURDAY: IU East def. Goshen 25-14, 25-13, 25-20 (stats)

In its final match of the weekend, Goshen posted a mirror image of Saturday's opener, again falling behind in the first two stanzas before clawing within 25-20 in the third against tournament champion IU East.

The Maple Leafs improved their kill total by 50 percent between the two matches on Saturday, going from 22 to 33, but were undone by a Red Wolf attack that hit .375 with only eight errors.

Vanitvelt finished with a team-high 11 kills, but no Goshen player hit better than .250. Smith and Rodriguez each made 12 assists while Smith posted 10 digs.

Mallory Livingston of IU East, which used only nine players to Goshen's 14, led all players with 16 kills.

The Maple Leafs improved their record to 15-13 after Friday's wins and end the weekend exactly at .500 (15-15); they remain 5-10 in the Crossroads League with three league matches forming the rest of the regular season schedule. Goshen is off midweek before hosting Spring Arbor on Friday: the match begins at 6 p.m. in Gunden Gymnasium.

Final Standings:
T1. IU East 3-1 (won tiebreaker for tournament title)
T1. Indiana Tech 3-1
T1. Cumberlands 3-1
4. Goshen 2-2
5. IU Southeast 1-3
6. Ave Maria 0-4

All-Tournament Team:
Mallory Livingston, IU East (MVP)
Lexy Smith, IU East
Taylor Sutton, IU Southeast
Whitney Peterson, Goshen
Jennifer Philpot, Cumberlands
Morgan Steinbrunner, IU East
Cassie Sarabia, Indiana Tech