KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon Tech rallied from a 2-1 deficit and earned a hard fought five set thriller, 3-2 (25-13, 22-15, 14-25, 25-20, 22-20) over Warner Pacific College in Cascade Collegiate Conference volleyball action tonight at Danny Miles Court.
Oregon Tech moved to 21-13 overall and sit in sixth place, one game up on Northwest Christian for the final playoff, in the CCC standing with a 7-10 mark. Warner Pacific drops to 3-14 in CCC play and 5-17 on the season.
Madisen Garlie (pictured) tallied a match-high 16 kills with Renee Baumann recording a double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs in the win. Tori Porter came away with 31 assists and Brooke Molloy 24 digs. Garlie would notch eight block assists with four each coming from Mykala Rubey and Joelle Swanson.
Janessa White led WPC with 12 kills with
Nicole Lisoski adding 10 and
Devan Belshe nine in the loss.
Hannah Wright finished with a match-high 36 assists and
Kelsey Merritt a match-high 26 digs, followed by Belshe with 23.
Trailing 5-4, Oregon Tech strung together nine-straight and moved up 13-5, eventually taking their first double digit lead at 20-10 in the opening set. The Owls would end the set scoring the final four points to take a 1-0 lead after winning 25-13.
Mikayla Rubey finished with four kills with Renee Baumann, Madisen Garlie and Whitney Webster adding two each.
Set 2 saw the Knights move up 11-7 before Tech clawed back to tie it at 15-all. The Owls eventually took a 20-17 lead. Four unanswered from WPC, however, turned the momentum, as the visitors pulled out a 25-22 win to tie the match at 1-1.
Nicole Kincaid tallied three spikes and
Janessa White two, powering the Knights in set 2. Madisen Garlie connected on four for Tech.
Things fell apart for Oregon Tech in set 3, as Warner Pacific secured a 2-1 lead in a 25-14 win. WPC led 12-11 and after eight-straight points, behind the serve of
Hannah Wright, quickly jumped up 20-11 and cruised to the 25-14 win.
Madisen Garlie recorded three more kills for the Owls with Tech hitting for a -.029 clip, their second straight set in the negative. White and
Nicole Lisoski kept the pace with three kills each for the Knights.
Oregon Tech used four runs of three or more to take a decisive 20-10 advantage in set 4, however, it was Warner Pacific putting together a 10-2 run to pull within two, 22-20. Tech's Madisen Garlie made it 23-20 on her spike, while Waverly Green followed with an ace and with a Marie Baumann kill, tied the match at 2-2 with a 25-20 win.
Trailing 7-6 in the final set, the Owls capitalized on four WPC attack errors, and a kill by Linsey Jones, to move up 11-7. WPC wouldn't go away, pulling to 12-11 behind a pair of Lisoski spikes. Tech looked to take control, leading 14-11, but once again the Knights fought back, tying it at 14-all, 15-all and next taking the lead at 16-15 before a timeout.
Tech's Whitney Webster tied it at 16-16. The teams would battle through four more ties, the last at 20-20 before Renee Baumann put Tech up 21-20 with a kill, while winning it 22-20 on an ensuing Baumann ace.
~Story courtesy of OIT sports information~
