DEARBORN, Mich. — The Goshen College women's volleyball team won back-to-back matches on the same day for the first time in two seasons Saturday, topping the University of Michigan-Dearborn in four sets and Mount Marty College in three at UMD's Early Bird Challenge.

The Saturday sweep combined with a Friday split to earn the Maple Leafs a 3-1 weekend, leaving them in a de facto tie for third place at the 12-team event. Madonna and Mount Vernon Nazarene universities each went 4-0; GC, Judson and Point Park shared the next tier with a single blemish apiece.

Goshen (4-4) doubled up the Wolverines' hitting percentage in the opener, hitting .260 against a .130 mark in a 25-19, 23-25, 25-20, 25-20 win. Haylee Pennington led the Maple Leafs with 12 kills while Olivia Koop and Elizabeth Breckbill had 11 apiece and Jennifer Ritchie narrowly missed double figures with 9.

Ally Roehr posted a team-high .545 hitting percentage, recording 6 kills without an error on 11 attempts, while Breckbill checked in at .450 and three players recorded a .333 mark on the nose.

Tessa Clark racked up 25 digs and Taylor Eash had 4 blocks to lead the defense while Ritchie nearly combined those marks with 20 digs and 3 blocks by herself. A quartet of players finished with 2 aces each.

Goshen surrendered the first three points of the match, then roared back to take four in a row for a 4-3 lead and never trailed again. After the Maple Leafs led for the bulk of the second set, the Wolverines (1-3) ripped off five of the last six rallies to level the score.

The third set was tied at 10 of the first 13 opportunities before Goshen reeled off six points in a row; in the fourth set, the 6-0 run came earlier, from 5-5 to 11-5 on Ritchie's serve.

The Maple Leafs swept Mount Marty 25-21, 25-18, 25-10, allowing 35 kills but forcing 19 errors in the three-set win. Goshen fell behind 9-5 in the opening stanza before taking 10 of the next 13 points on three kills, an ace and six errors. From that point forward, the Lancers tied the first set twice, but the Leafs led wire-to-wire in each of the remaining two sets.

Pennington led the team with 8 kills, followed by Koop with 6 and Breckbill with 4. The Maple Leafs hit .286 and averaged less than 3 errors a set while getting multiple blocks from four of their six starts,

Clark and Trusty each hit double figures in digs, getting 17 and 10 respectively. Roehr, Trusty and Clark all had multiple aces.

Goshen is idle during the week this week before traveling to New Albany, Indiana, to meet IU Southeast at 7 p.m. Friday.