West Chester, Pa. - Featuring career performances from Erin Harman and Katie Laughman and an impressive collegiate debut by Lindsey Blevins, the Millersville University women's volleyball team opened the 2017 season with a 3-0 win over Bowie State (25-9, 25-12, 25-18) and a 3-1 victory over Goldey-Beacom (26-24, 22-25, 25-18, 25-16).

Harman recorded a career-high 24 kills while committing just three errors on 55 swings against Goldey-Beacom, accounting for nearly half of Laughman's career-high 50 assists. Blevins, playing in her first collegiate matches, totaled a team-high seven kills on 11 attempts against Bowie State and 17 kills with just three errors against Goldey-Beacom.

Millersville's weekend at West Chester's RamsFest opened with a sweep of Bowie State in which it hit .333 as a team. Bowie State posted a .000 hitting percentage with 10 kills and 10 errors on 33 hits. The Marauders tallied eight kills to one error in the first set and piled up 14 kills in the third. Millersville totaled 11 service aces, led by freshman Samantha Miller's three.

Against Goldey-Beacom, the Marauders and Lightning split the first two sets before Millersville rolled in sets three and four, winning them by a combined 16 points. In the opening set Millersville snapped a 9-9 tie and built a 15-9 lead with four kills from Harman, one from Miller and one from Kelsi Ceriani. But the Lightning rallied and tied the set at 17 apiece. Neither team led by more than one point until Blevins delivered back-to-back kills on assists from Laughman for the 26-24 win.

The second set was also a seesaw battle with the Marauders trailing 22-21 following a Ceriani kill. Goldey-Beacom, however, used a pair of Millersville errors and a kill by Breanne Haley to score three of the set's final four points.

Sets three and four belonged to the Marauders, however. The team totaled 34 kills to just seven errors while limiting Goldey-Beacom to 15 in the final two frames. Harman recorded eight kills while committing one error in the third, and she and Ceriani both tallied five kills without an error in the fourth.

The Marauders continue action at the RamFest Saturday, taking on Salem International and Franklin Pierce.