EMU's offense was running in high gear Tuesday night, pushing the women to a 3-0 ODAC sweep at Hollins University in Roanoke.  The Royals hit a season high .351 and landed 12 service aces to move to 9-8 on the season.

Winners of three of their last four, the volleyball women are within reach of their highest win total since 2001.  The high water mark is 11 wins, and this is the first time over that span where the Royals have been above .500 in the month of October.

At 2-4 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, the women are tied for seventh in the standings.  The top eight teams make the postseason tournament, a destination that has escaped EMU since 2007.

At Hollins, the home team jumped to a surprising 16-9 lead in the first set before the Royals regrouped.  The women answered with five straight points to get their comeback mounted.  Back-to-back aces capped another 5-0 spurt as EMU got their first lead of the night at 21-19.  Hollins scored twice to tie things back up, but the women scored the final four to complete a 16-5 finish and 25-21 win.

The momentum carried into the second, as Eastern Mennonite rolled out with a 25-8 win.

The Royals led most of set three until Hollins jumped ahead 22-20 with a late 6-1 run.  But EMU had one final surge, ending on a 5-1 streak, capped by a clinching kill from Amy Nussbaum (Union, Mich./White Pigeon).

Maria Yoder (Manheim, Pa./Hempfield) was unstoppable with a career best 15 kills, as the team nearly doubled their previous best hitting percentage.  She also had three aces, while Skyler Johnson (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) added six kills and three aces.  Jasmine Johnson (Staunton, Va./Robert E. Lee) set things up with 31 assists.

Libero Katie Miller (San Antonio, Tex./Brandeis) nearly picked up half of the team's 40 digs, racking up 19 on her own.  She and Sam Jacob (Harrisonburg, Va./Eastern Mennonite) each had two aces.

Hollins' Deja Hadden led all player with 16 kills.

Eastern Mennonite has a key ODAC match at Guilford this Saturday, with a 4:00pm start time in Greensboro, N.C.