GOSHEN, Ind. — Elizabeth Breckbill finished with a match-high 20 kills Wednesday night, but her only solo block was what sent Goshen College fans home happy as the Maple Leaf women's volleyball team topped Huntington University in five sets at Gunden Gymnasium.

Goshen (6-4, 1-0) took the first two sets 25-16 and 25-19 behind a combined .373 hitting percentage. With another 22-19 third-set lead after a Forester service error, GC found itself three points from the win in the third set.

Huntington (2-3, 0-1) ripped off the last six points of that stanza to stay alive, though. The visitors would trail just once in the fourth set, when three attack errors in a five-point run on Naomi Willis' serve put Goshen up 20-19, but got five kills and a block the rest of the way to level the score behind a 27-25 win.

Goshen ripped off eight kills and two errors in the abbreviated deciding set, forcing HU into six hitting miscues and winning six of the last eight points for a 15-11 win.

The victory snapped a three-match losing streak against the only other conference foe with a tree-related nickname; it also marked the first time GC has toppled HU in Gunden Gymnasium since 2015, bucking a recent trend where three of the last four head-to-head meetings had been won by the road team. 

Breckbill's 20 kills marked a career high and her fourth double-digit match in that category, all coming this year. As a first-year college player in 2017, she topped out at seven winners in a match.

Hallie Vanitvelt and Taylor Eash added 12 and 11 winners, respectively, for the hosts, and Naomi Willis led all players with 30 assists. Breckbill and Eash, with four blocks each, combined to outdo HU's output of six blocks by themselves: Goshen finished with two solos and 14 assists.

Tailor Schultheis led the Foresters with 16 kills and HU's Ariene Butler posted a match-high 10 digs. Huntington hit .171 for the match with 27 attack errors compared to Goshen's .252 and 25.

Goshen has the next five days off, the team's longest idle stretch of the young season so far, before visiting Anderson University at 7 p.m. next Tuesday.

More, including comments from Maple Leaf head coach Jim Routhier, to come when available.