Box Score GOSHEN, Ind. — Darienne Maust finished with a match-high 11 kills and four blocks, but 16th-ranked Indiana Wesleyan powered its way to a four-set win over Goshen College in women's volleyball Wednesday night at Gunden Gymnasium.
Goshen used an 11-3 run to polish off the first set 25-15, but the visitors rebounded: the second and third sets each included 11-1 runs as the Wildcats finished an undefeated Crossroads League season with 25-13, 25-14 and 25-14 wins.
Indiana Wesleyan (31-2, 18-0) finished with double-digit kills in each of its three set wins, including 16 in the second, and hit .248 for the match. The Maple Leafs (13-18, 7-11) mustered 12 winners in the opening stanza but only 23 thereafter.
On the attack, Maust was followed by Christy Swartzendruber with eight kills and Hallie Vanitvelt with seven. Ally Roehr led GC with 14 assists, one more than Lisa Rodriguez, who finishes the night one assist shy of tying for eighth place on the school's career assist list—she has 1,553.
IWU's Remy Bucknor matched Maust with four blocks, while Bianca Cifaldi came the closest in kills, pacing her team with 10. Morgan Miller and Kylie Portera finished with nine each.
The loss drops Goshen into a tie for sixth place in the Crossroads League, with Huntington taking the tiebreaker over the Maple Leafs based on total points. Goshen will visit Mount Vernon Nazarene on Saturday in the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament: first serve at the Ariel Arena in Ohio is set for 3 p.m.