West Chester, Pa. - Millersville women's volleyball led by three and was four points away from closing out a PSAC Southeast road win against a West Chester club that had lost just two matches all season. But the Golden Rams rallied with five consecutive points and topped the visiting Marauders in five sets (20-25, 25-20, 25-27, 25-21, 15-12).

West Chester (16-2, 5-2 PSAC) entered the match with just one los at home while Millersville (9-7, 4-3 PSAC) now owns a 1-3 record on the road.

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
• The evenly-played match-up saw West Chester post 69 kills and a .229 hitting percentage while Millersville managed 57 kills and a .192 hitting percentage. West Chester held a slight 11-10 edge in blocks and both teams tallied eight aces.
• The deciding moments of the match came after Millersville built an 11-8 fifth set lead using seven kills and a Katie Laughman service ace. However, a kill from Julia Vreeswyk started a run of five consecutive points for the Golden Rams. Only two of which came from its offense as the Marauders were blocked twice at the net and called for a bad set. Trailing 13-11, Jayci Suseland delivered one of her career-high 23 kills, but West Chester's Rachel Robb answered with one of her own and a Millersville error ended the match. Millersville committed just three errors in the set but all of them came after scoring its 11th point. West Chester totaled 10 kills to two errors on 19 swings in the final set.
• Millersville opened the match with a 25-20 win in the first, taking advantage of eight West Chester hitting errors and a pair of service errors. West Chester reversed the score in the second set, using 17 kills to four errors while hitting .310. The Golden Rams also raced to a 6-1 lead and led by as many as 14-7 in the third. But a Suseland kill started a Millersville comeback that saw the Marauders score on nine of the next 10 rallies. The teams traded points until West Chester led 25-24, and Suseland staved off set point with a kill. Haley Butler and Chyna Gubbings shared a block, and Maddee Luring's service ace completed the comeback.
• West Chester closed well in the fourth set. Millersville pulled within one at 20-19, but the Golden Rams scored three in a row with two kills and a Millersville error and evened the match at 2-2 by scoring three consecutive points to close the set, 25-21.

COACH BRIAN SMITH QUOTES
•  "It was a nail-biter. It was a tough environment. They had a good fan base there. Our girls played their hearts out and played really well. There were a couple sets where we were down five or six points and we came back. One we won, one we lost and in the fifth set, we were up late but got blocked a few times. We kept fighting and fighting and lost by three in the end. I'm not disappointed in the performance. They excecuted the game plan fairly well. We lost a tough match to a tough opponent. We got a point out of it, pushing it to five. Hopefully when we get to our gym we can match the intensity with our crowd, beat them in three or four and win that series."
•  "[Seven matches in a row on the road] is tough. I don't get to pick the schedules. I personally thinks that crazy but it is what it is. We will deal with it, do the best we can and finish with five at home. Ship is a tough match-up, and we look to go out to Pitt-Johnstown and challenge them Friday night."
•  "Every week (Chyna) is getting better. She is young and learning. She is playing in a position she has never played before but that's helping out. Getting more production from her is good."

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
• Suseland led all players with 23 kills  while committing just five errors on 55 swings. She also added five block assists.
• It was a career night for Gubbings, who recorded her first career double-double with a career-high 10 kills (.179) and a career-high 16 digs. She also matched her previous career high with five block assists.
• With 51 assists, Katie Laughman topped 50 in a match for the third time in her career. She also led the team with two service aces.
• Lindsey Blevins added 15 kills (.155) and 11 digs for a double-double.

NOTES
• Millersville's 57 kills were a season high, and its 18 block assists were the second-most of the season.
• Suseland topped 20 kills in a match for the second time as a Marauder.
• Millersville falls to 27-30 all-time against West Chester. It's last win at West Chester came in 2014. Her 23 on Tuesday were the most by a Marauder since Erin Harman's 24 on Sept. 1, 2017.
• Kat Forry's 28 digs were a season high and marked the third time in the last four matches she has topped 20 digs.
• Blevins has recorded 16 kills in back-to-back matches.

UP NEXT
• Millersville's seven-match road swing continues Friday and Saturday, first with a trip to Pitt-Johnstown followed by a trip to Shippensburg.

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