Box Score BEREA, Ohio – The Cardinal volleyball squad made it two league wins in a row Saturday afternoon, walking away from Baldwin Wallace with a four-set victory by final scores of 26-24, 25-18, 21-25, 25-18.

Otterbein, jumping to 16-4 on the season as a whole and 2-1 in Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) play, picks up its third-straight victory in the series with BW. The Cards also won in four sets last year in Westerville.

Baldwin Wallace, meanwhile, falls to 18-3 overall and 1-2 against the league.

Otterbein led 16-10 in an opening frame that eventually became very close, as Baldwin Wallace scraped back to tie the set at 19, 20, 23 and 24 before a pair of culminating kills by Cardinal freshman Anna Donner sealed the deal.

The Cards carried that initial momentum into a 2-0 match lead, opening a 6-1 lead in the second and then holding a margin of 19-13 later on. Both sides would essentially trade points before consecutive kills from Tate Eppard and Emily Shuk punctuated the set.

BW didn't go quietly on its home floor, leading the entire third set and holding a 2-5 point cushion over Otterbein throughout. The Cards did get to within 19-18 before coming up just shy.

Otterbein put things away in the fourth game, breaking open a 10-10 tie with an 8-4 run to never trail again. BW pulled to within 19-17 down the stretch before a closing 6-1 run by the Cards capped the afternoon.

Shuk led all players with 17 kills, the second most of her career, and hit a whopping .696 on the day. Her final line of 17-1-23 marks the eighth-best hitting percentage for a single match in program history.

Eppard went 14-4-33 (.303), Dasha Bruyako hit 11-1-25 (.400) and Julia Vermilion added10 kills for a Cardinal offense that was a very solid .306 collectively. Carlie Craycraft tossed around 51 assists from start to finish.

Three players had double-digit digs, with Vermilion's match-high 19 giving her a double-double while Ashlyn Leon (13) and Bridget Oder (12) also guiding the defensive effort.

Otterbein will have another pair of OAC contests next week, traveling to John Carroll on Tuesday before hosting Heidelberg in a prime-time showdown under the Friday night lights in the Rike Center.