The Lady Royals played another tough match Wednesday night at Hollins, but just couldn't get the kills when they needed them to come out on the short end of a 3-1 decision.

Game one was tied at 17-17 before Hollins closed on an 8-1 run to win, 25-18.  The home team then controlled game two, 25-17.

Despite giving up the first four in game three, EMU responded with an 8-0 run to jump ahead 14-8.  The lead never got under five as the Lady Royals won 25-16.

Eastern Mennonite again seized momentum with an early run in game four and still led 19-14.  But Hollins rattled off five straight to lock up the score at 19-19.  The two teams then traded points until the Lady Royals led 24-23.  The women committed three straight attack errors to give away the game and a chance at game five, 26-24.

Rachel Kennel (Parkesburg, PA/Lancaster Mennonite) and Sara Ritchie (Harrisonburg, VA/Turner Ashby) served as a two-headed attack, with each landing 13 kills to lead all players.  Karla Martin (Stuarts Draft, VA/Grace Christian) added eight kills and 23 digs.

Mattie Lehman (New Paris, IN/Bethany Christian) had 36 set assists and 19 digs.  Katie Miller (San Antonio, TX/Brandeis) added 17 digs.  Lehman and Kennel each had a pair of service aces.

Despite falling to 3-14 overall and 0-8 in the ODAC, the Lady Royals continued to show improvement by winning at least one game in their fifth straight contest.  Eastern Mennonite's women are at home on Saturday, welcoming in Lancaster Bible College at 1:00pm as part of EMU's Homecoming Weekend.