Box Score 1 After back-to-back tri-match splits last week, the Lancaster Bible women's volleyball earned two wins on Tuesday at Horst Athletic Center as the Chargers defeated Wilkes and Northern Virginia Community College. The wins move the Chargers to 4-5 and marks the first time since the 2011 season the team has won at least four of its first nine games. 

In the opener against Wilkes, the Chargers defeated the Colonels, 25-19, 24-26, 25-15, 25-21 as senior Katie Coomber led all players with 14 kills and added 10 digs and two blocks. Freshman Myranda Kemrer also had double-digit kills with 10 and added 17 digs. Junior Joanna Butala had a team-high 25 digs to along with her six kills and senior Amanda Maltzahn had a team-high four blocks to go with three kills. After Wilkes won a tight second set, 26-24, the Chargers took the momentum right back and sprinted out to an early 12-5 lead in the third set and never looked back.

The Colonels (3-3) fought back to tie the fourth set at 16-16 and then 19-19, but the Chargers pulled away late and improved to 2-0 all-time against Wilkes. Ellen Mook had a team-high 11 kills for Wilkes, while Emily Olson had seven kills and two blocks for the Chargers.

In the nightcap, the Chargers and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) played a great five-set match with Lancaster Bible holding off a late charge by NOVA and securing the team's first five-set win of the season and first since Oct. 26, 2013 when the Chargers downed Baptist Bible, 3-2 in the NCCAA East Region Semifinals. Lancaster Bible defeated NOVA by scores of 25-16, 26-24, 25-21, 25-21, 15-10. 

In the opening set with the Chargers clinging to a 14-12 lead, Butala stepped up to the service line and led the Chargers to eight straight points to extend the lead to 22-12 as Lancaster Bible cruised to a first-set win. In the second set, the Chargers fought off two set points as NOVA led 24-22 before Lancaster Bible won the last four points of the set and won 26-24. NOVA posted back-to-back 25-21 victories as Somya Leskanich and Brigitte Weber got the team back in the match. Leskanich finished with a match-high 18 kills, wihle Weber added 13. 

NOVA once again held a lead in the fifth and final set as they led 10-8 with the Chargers in trouble. A block by Maltzahn and kill by Coomber tied the match at 10-10 and back-to-back errors by NOVA gave the Chargers a lead they would not relinquish as they reeled off the last seven points of the match and took the set, 15-10. Coomber and Kemrer each finished with 14 kills in the five-set match, while Butala finished with three kills, 15 digs and six aces. Junior Grace Scheuerman had 15 digs for Lancaster Bible and ended the match with her first and only kill of the match. Fellow junior Hannah Derr added 35 assists and 11 digs to go along with her four kills. 

"I thought we showed great mental toughness in both matches," Lancaster Bible Head Coach Lauren Bewley said. "We played aggressive and together and these were two really good wins."

Lancaster Bible hits the road for just the second time this season on Thursday when they travel to the Big Apple to take on The King's College in New York City. The match is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Notes:
-The Chargers improved to 3-0 all-time against NOVA.

-Lancaster Bible's last five-set victory at home came in 2012 against Goucher.