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GRANVILLE, Ohio – The Otterbein University women's volleyball team improved to 22-6 on the season with a pair of recent wins over Wilmington College and Denison University.
The Cardinals turned back Wilmington in straight-sets Wednesday evening in the Rike Center, winning 25-17, 25-12, 25-21 to move to 4-2 in Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) play.
Senior Annie Juenger and sophomore Krystin Estes each recorded a match-high six kills as head coach Monica McDonald was able to work in a variety of players in the rotation.
Otterbein hit .262 in the match as a unit, equaling the team's exact hitting percentage entering the contest.
The Cardinals stepped out of OAC play Wednesday evening, traveling to Denison University to pick up a four-set victory by scores of 22-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18.
Otterbein overcame a deficit in the second set by winning seven-straight points to tie the match, and broke open the third frame before a kill from Juenger gave the team a 2-1 lead. The Cardinals finished the job in the fourth, jumping out to a 13-7 lead and never looking back.
Juenger tallied a double-double with a match-high 16 kills and 13 digs, while junior Kendel Kellogg went for 13 kills, and just two errors, on 22 attempts to hit .500 for the bout.
Setter Tabatha Piper handed out 34 assists, bringing her just 78 assists shy of Otterbein's all-time record of 3,229.
With the pair of victories, Juenger and fellow seniors Emily Caldwell, Liz Palmer, Kelsey Berrien and student assistant Abby Costello now have exactly 100 wins for their four-year careers.
The Cards next turn their attention to league-leading University of Mount Union (25-3, 6-0 OAC), traveling to Alliance Saturday afternoon for a 4 p.m. bout with the No. 9-ranked Purple Raiders.
Mount escaped Westerville with a five-set win during the 2012 regular season before Otterbein claimed a four-set triumph in the OAC Tournament Championship match.