MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- The Central Michigan volleyball team advanced its win streak to two with an emotional four-set victory over Buffalo on Saturday in McGuirk Arena.
The Chippewas, who defeated Akron in four sets at home on Friday, improved to 11-14, 5-9 Mid-American Conference. Buffalo fell to 11-14, 4-9.
CMU is set to take to the road again and play at Ball State on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 4-5 (6:30 p.m.) in Muncie, Ind. The Cardinals on Friday handed previously undefeated Bowling Green its first MAC loss as they downed the Falcons in straight sets.
"I'm super pumped," said outside hitter Anna Erickson. "We needed to turn this weekend around and get a couple wins at home and we did that. I'm super proud of the team and we pulled out a couple good wins."
Erickson delivered 13 kills on 28 attempts for a .429 hitting percentage against the Bulls.
The Chippewas found a rocket start to set one, grabbing the lead early and maintaining it through to a 25-18 win. CMU completed set one with a .342 hitting percentage while holding Buffalo to .171.
The second set followed a similar script. The Chippewas kept their foot on the gas and left the Bulls in the dust, claiming the set at 25-20.
Buffalo shut down the sweep opportunity with a 25-20 third set win, keeping the Chippewas on their toes and capitalizing off CMU attack errors to string points together between kills.
"We came out of the gates alright, and all of a sudden we found ourselves tied at eight after a run, and then Buffalo just started trading two-for-ones and three-for-ones at the service line, and all of a sudden we're trailing by a boatload of points," CMU coach Mike Gawlik said. "We went a little stale offensively and a little stale defensively in that third set."
The Chippewas completed the victory in an intense fourth set, 25-23, having sat neck-and-neck with the Bulls for most of the set. To help aid the Chippewas in the bounceback, Gawlik utilized veteran Megan Sivertsen and freshman Krystina Kasson in the set. Kasson and Sivertsen delivered two and three kills respectively, as well as a block apiece in the set.
"The energy and the spark that it provides when you come off the bench and do that," Gawlik said. "Your teammates get genuinely excited for you, and I think that helped galvanize the group and re-energize our focus there."
Sierra Gray led the Chippewas in kills with 15, while Savannah Thompson followed with 14.
CMU setters Grace Butler and Kamryn Olson made 25 and 23 assists, respectively, while libero Aly Gurtiza made 18 digs.
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