HAMMOND, Ind. - The Quincy University women's volleyball team rounded out its trip to the Midwest Region Crossover on Saturday (Oct. 14) with a win over the Chargers of Hillsdale College. The Hawks defeated GMAC foe, Hillsdale, in three sets (25-20, 25-20, 25-19). 

Set One: 

QU slept out to a commanding 8-1 advantage to open the frame. Kills from Emma Wijnbergen and Luna Van Baars, along with four Charger errors, fueled the run. Keeping their foot on the gas, the Hawks pressed the lead further to eight at 12-4. 

HC worked its way back into the set, cutting the deficit to a single point at 17-16 near the midpoint of the set. Quincy responded by taking the next three points to press the advantage back to four at 20-16 and continued to push through the finish line, closing out a 25-20 win in the first set with a Susanna Beretti kill. 

Set Two: 

The Hawks clung to a narrow advantage in the early going until the Chargers took back-to-back points to claim their only lead of the set at 9-8. QU promptly responded with a three-point run of its own to reclaim the lead 11-9. 

Hillsdale continued to hang around until the 15-14 mark, where Quincy took five of the next six points to press the advantage to five at 20-15 heading down the stretch. Both sides split the final 10 points of the set, 5 a piece, to give QU another 25-20 victory in the second set. 

Set Three: 

The Hawks opened the first sizable lead of the third frame with a three-point run on kills from Wijnbergen and Brianna Merkel, along with an HC error to move ahead 7-4. The Chargers kept within striking distance for the majority of the frame, until Quincy found an opening at 18-18. 

The Hawks continued their hot play down the stretch, taking seven of the final eight points, capped off by a kill from Beretti, to give QU a 25-19 winner in the third set and 3-0 victory in the match. 

With the win, Quincy continues its historic winning streak, pressing the number to 16 matches in a row. Each victory adds to a new record for the program, besting the previous win streak of 14 matches set by the 2022 squad. 

QU will resume its GLVC slate next weekend, traveling to Drury University for a showdown with the Panthers on Friday (Oct. 20) in Springfield, MO.