California, Pa. - The final leg of Millersville's seven-match road swing started with a 3-0 (25-19, 26-24, 25-23) loss at California (Pa.) Friday night.

The loss dropped Millersville to 11-10 (6-6 PSAC) and California moved to 15-9, (8-4 PSAC). The Marauders played the majority of the match without the services of reigning PSAC Southeast Athlete of the Week and kills leader Jayci Suseland after she exited in the second set two-point loss.

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
• Even without Suseland on the floor, the Marauders kept the second and third sets close and even held a 22-19 lead in the second before California scored on seven of the next seven rallies. A Chyna Gubbings kill evened the set at 24-24, but back-to-back Vulcan kills closed the come-from-behind win for the home team. The second set was a see-saw battle with 11 ties and four lead changes. Cal out-hit the Marauders .327-.255 in the set. The Vulcans posted 17 kills and just one error while Millersville totaled 15 kills to three errors.
• In the third, the Marauders trailed five as many as five early but rallied back and evened the score at 15-15. From there, the teams traded points with the score standing tied five more times. California broke a 22-22 tie with a kill by Lois van Schaik. A Millersville attack error and a kill from Emily Bucklin closed the set. Cal totaled 22 kills in the set (.286) while Millersville posted 15 with a .245 hitting percentage.
• On the match, California out-hit Millersville .291-.181. Millersville recorded six service aces and was the beneficiary of nine Vulcan service errors.
• Suseland totaled four kills in the first set and had piled up six in Millersville's first 13 points in the second before her exit.

COACH BRIAN SMITH QUOTES
• (Suseland's injury impacted us) big time. You have your best blocker and one of your most productive offensive players out. Even worse, our other right side, Courtney (Turocy) was already in the game as a sub as serving specialist so we had to go to the player who had not been playing at all. We lost two close sets after that. Everyone stepped it up, but that was a tough loss."
• "(Playing without Suseland) is reality now. We don't know how bad it is. That could be what we have to face the rest of the way. Everyone has to play up, be better teammates--next player up."
• "We played poorly in the first but started getting better and played nearly even the rest of the way. It was a tight match. The effort was there. We've got to regroup and go out and compete tomorrow."

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
• Lindsey Blevins led Millersville with 14 kills on 47 swings. She also added 14 digs and a team-high two aces.
• Kat Forry recorded a career-high 33 digs, giving her career-high totals in each of her last two matches.

NOTES
• Millersville to 5-17 all-time against California. It was the second consecutive season that the teams played at California. Millersville won last season's match-up, 3-0.
• Blevins recorded her team-high 12th double-double of the season.
• Blevins has recorded eight or more kills in 20 consecutive matches. Friday marked her second consecutive match with 14 kills and she has three consecutive matches with at least one service aces.
• Forry has at least one ace in 15 of the team's 21 matches.

UP NEXT
• Millersville plays Saturday at Seton Hill and then closes out the the regular season with five consecutive home matches.

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