GOSHEN, Ind. — Elizabeth Breckbill put down double-digit kills for the ninth time this season on Wednesday as the Goshen College women's volleyball team faced off with the University of Saint Francis in Gunden Gymnasium. The Cougars won the Crossroads League match in three sets, 25-14, 25-17, 25-19.

Breckbill finished with 10 kills on 23 attempts, both Maple Leaf team highs, as she hit better than .250 for the third time in October.

Megan Diagostino had 11 kills for the Cougars (26-7, 12-3) while Maria Pelak added 41 assists to lead all players.

The teams split the first 10 points after Breckbill tied the score at 1 with her first kill. Meghan Manley and Hallie Vanitvelt both added kills in the early going and Tessa Clark chipped in an ace to make it 5-all.

Goshen (8-23, 2-13) won four straight points late in the first set and opened the second stanza on an 8-1 run, prompting a timeout for Saint Francis.

The Cougars responded with a run of their own, opening a 14-10 lead before the teams returned to trading points. Breckbill added another kill at 22-16 to give the sophomore 8 through two sets.

The third set was the most back-and-forth of the three, with neither side leading by more than three points until USF pulled ahead 9-6. That edge was only momentary, though, as the Cougars would get one more point before a Riley Woods kill sparked an 8-1 Goshen run to give the hosts a three-point lead.

Kills from Breckbill, Hallie Vanitvelt and Sydney Cruz pushed Goshen's lead out to 16-12 two-thirds of the way through the set. Saint Francis got two winners from Anne Clark and three from Diagostino to tie the score at 17, and from that point forward every rally ended in a kill or an attack error. Ava Kunkler and Kendra Siefring each had two Cougar kills in the last 10 points.

USF finished the match with 46 kills, accounting for more than three in five of the visiting team's points, and canceled 9 errors out with 9 blocks. Goshen accumulated 24 kills. Meghan Manley paced the Maple Leafs with 12 digs, four short of Valorie Flick's match high.

Notable Numbers:

3: A trio of Maple Leafs (Clark, Jennifer Ritchie and Naomi Willis) finished with aces; Saint Francis got two aces each from Cassidy Rammel and Anne Clark.

4: Goshen will recognize a quartet of seniors Friday night before the team's last home match of the season. Sydney Cruz (blocks), Meghan Manley (aces), MacKinnon Tracy (digs) and Hallie Vanitvelt (kills) all rank in the top two on the team in a major statistical category.

Up Next: Friday, Oct. 26 — Taylor at Goshen, 7 p.m.