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Box Score 4 FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Junior Christy Swartzendruber was named to the all-tournament team and Goshen College salvaged a four-set win over Shawnee State University on Saturday, but the Maple Leaf volleyball team could pick up only the one win in four matches this weekend at the Liz Lykowski Memorial Tournament hosted by Indiana Tech.
Swartzendruber finished the four-match tournament with 44 kills, one short of the team lead, and a team-high 133 swings to go along with 79 digs, 28 more than the next-highest Maple Leaf. She added four aces, two solo blocks and an assist.
FRIDAY: Indiana Tech def. Goshen 25-16, 25-14, 25-17 (box score)
In its first weekday afternoon match since August, Goshen struggled to get untracked in the tournament opener, accumulating 21 attack errors against 21 winners in a straight-set loss to the hosts. Swartzendruber and Lexa Magnuson each finished with five kills, but none of the 14 Maple Leafs who saw the floor got more than that. Magnuson posted a .444 attack percentage on nine swings.
The Warriors trailed for just eight points, jumping out to leads of 12-4 in the first set and 15-6 in the second. Paige Doellman and Jazmin Alexander of IIT each added nine kills to lead their teams, followed by a trio of Warriors with seven each. The hosts' Taylor Kelso had a match-high 22 digs
FRIDAY: IU Southeast def. Goshen 14-25, 25-19, 17-25, 25-19, 15-12 (box score)
Goshen hit .360 with 11 kills and two errors on 25 swings in the first set to claim its first stanza victory of the weekend, but that was undone by a Grenadier team that finished with 13 or more kills in three of the next four sets, including the deciding fifth.
Swartzendruber, Kylie Giger and Darienne Maust each had solo blocks for the Maple Leafs. Maust and Giger each had assists in that area as well: IU Southeast did not successfully block a single GC attack. Swartzendruber and Giger each racked up eight kills, two more than Maust, and Swartzendruber led the team with 20 digs as well.
SATURDAY: Goshen def. Shawnee State 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-16 (box score)
Following an opening-set scare in the form of a 25-20 loss to the Bears, who fall to 4-22, GC finished with 12 or more winners in each of the final three sets in a four-set win. Giger finished with a match-high 14 winners, followed by 12 from Swartzendruber and 11 from Maust, and Hallie Vanitvelt led GC with 26 assists. Four Maple Leafs also cracked double figures in digs as the teams combined for 339 attacks.
MacKinnon Tracy finished with three service aces, one of four GC players with more than one. Giger combined two solo blocks with three assists.
After the early defeat, Goshen won five of the first six points in the second set. SSU tied the score at 14 and led 23-22, but a five-point GC run in the first case and kills from Swartzendruber, Meghan Gerke and Kylie Giger in the second squared the match. The Maple Leafs finished the match on a 13-3 run, keyed by two aces from Meghan Manley, two blocks and two kills each from Magnuson and Swartzendruber.
SATURDAY: IU Kokomo def. Goshen 25-22, 25-20, 27-29, 25-22 (box score)
The Maple Leafs came within eight points of forcing their second deciding set of the weekend, coming back from a 2-0 hole to claim the third set in extra points and leading as late as 17-16 in the fourth, but an 8-2 run put the Cougars in control and kept GC from finishing the weekend at .500.
Nicole Sandman finished the match with 19 kills, five more than any other player and seven more than GC leader Swartzendruber. IUK finished with an 18-winner advantage between the teams, 66-48, and nine blocks to their opponents' five. Ally Roehr finished with 18 assists, one more than Vanitvelt, to lead Goshen. Giger and Whitney Peterson, a member of last year's all-tournament team, each finished with double-digit kills in the loss.
Goshen returns to action at 7 p.m. Wednesday when it returns to Fort Wayne to meet the Cougars of Saint Francis in a Crossroads League match. The Maple Leafs will enter the week with an 11-14 record and a 5-8 mark in league play with five conference matches remaining.