WOOSTER, Ohio – The Kenyon College Ladies volleyball team won its second straight conference match Tuesday defeating the host Fighting Scots from The College of Wooster, 25-15, 23-25, 25-16, 25-23. The victory pulled the Ladies' overall record to an even 11-11 and placed them as the No. 6 seed in the upcoming eight-team North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.

In the opening set, Kenyon blitzed Wooster with eight straight points. Sophomore Lauren Kerr had two kills in the run and freshman Delaney Swanson had one. The two also combined for a block. Wooster helped out the Kenyon cause by committing three attack errors and one ball-handling error. Two more attack errors from Wooster and a kill from sophomore Tierney McClure pushed Kenyon ahead 12-2. The Ladies never looked back and finished off the set with three Swanson kills. In the first set alone, Swanson had five kills and just one error.

Set two was more of the same as the Ladies raced out to leads of 8-1 and 10-4. Three different Ladies registered kills, while Wooster continued to shoot itself in the foot with five attack errors. Midway through the set, however, the tables turned. Kenyon started to misfire and Wooster went on an 11-3 run to take a 20-19 lead. Later, Kenyon moved ahead 23-22 on a Kerr kill, but Wooster closed things out with two Kenyon errors and a kill from Anna Emmick.

The Ladies rebounded perfectly from the set-two loss and bombarded the Fighting Scots with 21 kills in the third set. Swanson had six kills and McClure had four as the Ladies posted a .373 attack percentage. That set-three output went a long way in helping the Ladies post a season-high 62 kills for the match.

Set four was much more closely contested with the two teams being tied on 11 different occasions. The final time the teams were tied occurred after a kill from Kerr made the score 23-23. Freshman Alexi Donnelly followed up with one more Kenyon kill and a Wooster error sealed the deal for the Ladies.

Swanson finished with a team-best 19 kills, while Donnelly and Kerr pounded down individual season-highs of 10 and 9 kills, respectively. Kerr also racked up seven block assists. Setting up the majority of the Kenyon kills was sophomore Jensen Shurbert, who posted a season-high 49 assists and also had seven kills of her own. Rachael Thorson, a sophomore libero, added three assists and a team-high 15 digs.

Winners five times in their last seven matches, the Ladies are warming up at the right time. They have three non-conference matches before the week ends and then they'll head to Wittenberg University next Friday and Saturday for the NCAC Tournament. As the tournament's No. 6 seed, the Ladies will take on No. 3-seeded DePauw University in the first round of the conference tournament.