What turned out to be the final set of the season may have been decided when Dayton ran off five points to turn 7-5 Marquette into 10-7 Flyers. MU did nothing to fend off match point, as Wuensch delivered yet another UD service error, but the Golden Eagles pounced with a kill by Wolf and inducing an error from Lexie Almodovar to win 26-24 and provoke a fourth set in this match. The Golden Eagles ended up having to rally in a set they led by seven, and a service error - yep, again - and an attack error by the Flyers evened the match at 23. Marquette did go up two, 18-16 and then 19-17 and even 20-18, but Dayton kept coming. The Flyers chipped and chipped, and eventually a service ace by Anna Wuensch knotted the frame at 15 each. The Golden Eagles rolled up a lead of 9-3, and then 11-4, but as you can guess, Dayton wasn’t going to just roll over and hand Marquette a set. 6-2 off the bat, although Dayton helped with two more service errors. It seemed like Marquette was well aware of that as the third set started. This time, it put Marquette in a 2-0 hole and in need of a reverse sweep to keep their season alive. From there on out, MU only scored on Dayton service errors - the Flyers would hand Marquette 18 points this way across the match - and yet again, a kill from Peterson closed out the set. but it slipped out of MU’s grip from there. A kill from Savannah Rennie and a block from Carsen Murray and Taylor Wolf knotted the whole thing up at 19.
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The biggest lead before either team got to 20 points was just two, and that was Dayton leading 3-1.
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The second set was much better for Marquette. The Golden Eagles would end up falling behind 15-8 and 18-10 along the way before making a big push in the back half of the set to pull within three, 23-20, before a handling error by MU and a kill from Jamie Peterson wrapped it up for UD. The Flyers went up 7-3 out of the gate, with two of Marquette’s three points coming by way of Dayton flubbing their own service. It looked, pretty much from the jump, that Dayton was the better team on the day. That wraps up the season for the Golden Eagles with their first loss to an unranked opponent all year.
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Marquette volleyball lost in the NCAA tournament on Thursday, falling in four sets (25-20, 25-21, 24-26, 25-23) to Dayton down in West Lafayette, Indiana.