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Breckbill tabbed all-tournament as Leafs play four at Indiana Tech

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Sophomore Elizabeth Breckbill took home all-tournament team honors over the weekend as the Goshen College women's volleyball team competed in the Liz Lykowski Memorial Tournament at Indiana Tech.

The host Warriors went 4-0 in the eight-team, two-day event, which is named in honor of the Indiana Tech defensive specialist who passed away during her senior season in 2008.

In their weekend opener, the Maple Leafs dropped a five-set decision to Indiana University Kokomo, which picked up its 20th win of the year. Subsequent opponents included Indiana Tech, Lawrence Tech and Madonna.

Summaries of each match can be found below: click on the bold header at the top of each section to see the statistics for that match.

FRIDAY: IU Kokomo def. Goshen 23-25, 14-25, 25-11, 25-19, 15-7 (box score)

Hallie Vanitvelt paced the Maple Leafs with 13 kills and Riley Woods added 10 and Haylee Pennington hit .417 on 12 attacks in the weekend's lid-lifter. Naomi Willis recorded 27 assists and Jennifer Ritchie posted a team-high 14 digs.

The first set was tied at six of the first nine chances, and IUK led by as many as three points before a Vanitvelt kill knotted things back up at 21. Five of the final six points in the set were kills as Ritchie and Taylor Eash fired winners to seal the deal. Woods posted three kills and a block as part of a 7-1 run to break open the second set.

IU Kokomo turned the tables in the third with its own early seven-point run, then got back-to-back McKenna Lundy kills to pull ahead 8-4 in the fourth set. Goshen got as close as 16-13 on a Cruz winner before Lundy, Nyssa Baker and Alexa Roberts finished leveling the match. Baker served five straight points and Lundy four in the deciding set.

Lundy racked up 19 kills and Baker had 10 for the Cougars (20-4), who posted 67 kills and hit .297 for the match. Lundy also had 14 digs while Abby Bowyer led all players with 28 assists while Erinn Adam recorded 4 blocks.

FRIDAY: Indiana Tech def. Goshen 25-23, 25-12, 25-14 (box score)

The Warriors opened a 6-2 first set lead, but Goshen responded by taking seven of the next 10 points to pull level at 9 on an attack error. After the teams traded points for the next 22 rallies, culminating with GC tying the score at 20 behind back-to-back Woods kills, Indiana Tech used three straight points to get within two of the first set.

A pair of six-point runs set Indiana Tech up to take the second stanza and the hosts hit .452 with 17 winners in the third to finish off the sweep. Jordan Aylward led all players with 12 kills and a .526 hitting percentage for the hosts, who received all 58 Goshen serves without an error. Autumn Stokes added 25 assists and Madeleine McDonald recorded 20 digs.

Cruz finished with 6 kills while Woods and Hallie Vanitvelt had 5 for the Maple Leafs. Jennifer Ritchie paced Goshen with 9 assists.

SATURDAY: Lawrence Tech def. Goshen 25-21, 25-22, 25-22 (box score)

The Maple Leafs had 5-0 and 4-0 runs to their credit in the first set of Saturday's opener, trimming the Blue Devil lead to one point on multiple occasions but never taking the lead. The second stanza was somehow even closer, with three ties and a maximum lead of three points, before a pair of Isabella McDonald kills broke the final deadlock and sparked a 7-4 Lawrence Tech spurt to close it out.

LTU took a 7-2 lead in the third set and pulled ahead by as many as 9 before four straight Goshen kills, from Breckbill, Cruz and Vanitvelt, got the Maple Leafs back within 3 points. Two winners from Eash and a Blue Devil attack error closed the margin to 2 points three separate times, but in all three cases Lawrence Tech responded with kills to remain in front.

McDonald led all players with 18 kills for LTU while Kristi Doherty recorded match highs with 33 assists and 26 digs. Eash paced the Maple Leafs with 10 kills; Meghan Manley added 11 digs and Tessa Clark recorded a pair of aces.

SATURDAY: Madonna def. Goshen 26-24, 25-22, 25-17 (box score)

Goshen's final match of the weekend was the first one to require extra points in a set after a four-point run on Clark's serve turned an 18-16 deficit into a 20-18 lead in the opening set. Erica LeBaere put down two kills to tie the set at 20 only for Goshen to take three subsequent leads on kills by Vanitvelt and Ritchie as well as an attack error, but the Crusaders got the final momentum shift with three straight points for the 26-24 win.

Neither team could seize control of the second stanza, which was tied at the first five chances, before Madonna reeled off 6 of 7 points for an 11-6 lead. The Maple Leafs got two Eash blocks and back-to-back Vanitvelt kills for their own 6-1 run to get within 24-22, but an attack error put Madonna up two sets to none.

Two Breckbill kills gave Goshen a 6-3 lead in the third, a margin the Maple Leafs would maintain as late as 11-8, but Madonna used a seven-point run to open a 6-point lead and never trailed again. The Crusaders hit .250 in the third set and .235 for the match, getting 20 kills from Jodie Kelly and 10 from LeBaere. Lauren Korth led the team with 31 assists and 14 digs.

Vanitvelt recorded 12 kills to lead the Maple Leafs, who got 19 assists and 11 digs out of setter Naomi Willis. Jennifer Ritchie added 10 digs and Eash led all players with 5 blocks.

Up Next: Goshen returns home for the first time in three weeks to host Mount Vernon Nazarene University at 7 p.m. Tuesday; the match is the beginning of a three-match homestand that lasts through Friday, Oct. 26.

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