UPLAND, Ind. — Elizabeth Breckbill posted 6 kills, her fifth straight match with at least that many, as Goshen College dropped a three-set women's volleyball decision to Taylor University on Friday at TU's Odle Arena.

The Maple Leafs (7-12, 1-6) led for the bulk of the first set, opening the match with a block by Taylor Eash and Hallie Vanitvelt and using a kill by Haylee Pennington to take back the lead at 5-4. Vanitvelt and Eash each posted kills to round out the Maple Leafs' scoring for the set – the 12th and 13th winners of the opening stanza – but only after a 7-point Trojan run had given the hosts four set points on the way to a 25-22 win.

Taylor (6-9, 3-5) kept its momentum going into the second set, hitting .321 and holding the Maple Leafs to four kills and an ace in the 25-13 win. After the teams split the first six points, the Trojans took nine of the next 11 to break the set open and won the first four points of the third stanza as well.

Goshen was able to stay alive with a 7-4 run to pull back within a point, eventually leveling the set at 13-all on a Jennifer Ritchie kill from Tessa Clark's serve. The Trojans answered with six straight points, before the teams traded several sideouts. The Maple Leafs reeled off five straight points to get back to 23-22, then saved one match point on an Eash winner before Ryan Czerniak gave Taylor the victory with a kill.

Czerniak led all players with 13 kills while Addy Bailey chipped in 5 blocks for the Trojans, who got 35 assists and 17 digs from Haley Harrell. Samantha Korn added 26 digs and 6 assists. MacKinnon Tracy's 13 digs and Breckbill's 3 blocks guided Goshen.

Notable Numbers:

6: Three Maple Leafs (Breckbill, Vanitvelt and Pennington) led the team with 6 digs.

9: Naomi Willis' career-high-tying 9 digs, combined with 12 assists, left her one dig short of her first career double-double. She had previously recorded 9 digs with 30 assists on Aug. 29 against Huntington.

2: The Maple Leafs come home for their next two matches before hitting the road for seven in a row away from Gunden Gymnasium.

Up Next: Saturday, Sept. 22 — Spring Arbor at Goshen, 3 p.m.