Untimely errors cost Eastern Mennonite Tuesday night, as the volleyball women gave up late leads in both games one and two before dropping a 3-0 sweep at conference rival Shenandoah.

The women scored the first two points of the night and pushed out to a 16-9 lead.  The Lady Royals still led 21-16 and 23-19, but ended the game on four straight attack errors to lose 25-23.

EMU led by as many as five points in game two, and led 22-20 late in the game.  But another run by Shenandoah to end the game stole another decision, 25-22.

Rattled by the first two games, the Lady Royals fell behind 6-0 in game three and never recovered, dropping a 25-14 decision.

Despite landing nine service aces, Eastern Mennonite was plagued by poor hitting, making 29 attack errors to out-weigh 20 kills.  Sara Ritchie (Harrisonburg, VA/Turner Ashby) had a team best six kills.  Both she and Katie Martin (Stuarts Draft, VA/Grace Christian) had three service aces, while Jessica Goertzen (Goessel, KS/Goessel) added two.

Katie Miller (San Antonio, TX/Brandeis) had 15 digs to lead both teams.  Mattie Lehman (New Paris, IN/Bethany Christian) had 14 set assists and 10 digs.

The tough loss drops the women to 2-10 overall and 0-5 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.  They will try to snap their losing skid over three straight home contests, starting with Ferrum on Thursday.