The Muhlenberg volleyball team fell on the road to regionally ranked Swarthmore 3-0 in a battle between the second and third place teams in the Centennial Conference standings.
 
The Mules (15-9, 5-3 CC) played a strong first set against the Garnet (17-3, 7-1 CC), ranked 10th in the Mid-Atlantic region, and battled hard at the beginning of the next two stanzas before Swarthmore pulled out long rallies to eventually take the match.
 
Senior Elizabeth Garrison finished with a match-high 32 digs, her second match this season with 30-plus digs. She moved into fourth place on the program's all-time career digs list in the process with 1,352 in her career, passing former Mules Julie Lauro and Megan Young.
 
Freshman Maggie Enestvedt led the Mules with nine kills and two blocks to go with five digs. Sophomore Shannon Hubert finished the match with 24 assists and eight digs while sophomore Kelly Tornetta was just shy of a double-double with eight kills and nine digs.
 
Muhlenberg started the first set on a 4-0 run and bumped its lead to 16-12 later in the set on a kill from sophomore Erica Schultz. The Garnet rattled off the next seven points to take a 19-16 lead. The Mules kept fighting to get within one point of tying the set at 24 before Swarthmore earned a kill to close the stanza.
 
The Mules scored the first two points of the second set as well. Two kills from Enestvedt and a kill from Tornetta helped the Mules keep their lead before Swarthmore went on another seven-point streak to take command of the second set. Muhlenberg rallied to take five of six points and make it 17-15 Swarthmore, but the Garnet won eight of the next 11 decisions to take the second set 25-18.
 
Both teams traded points to start the third set, with two consecutive kills from freshman Madison Forrest giving Muhlenberg a 4-3 lead. That was the last Mules lead of the series however, as Swarthmore pulled ahead and closed out the match on a 6-0 run.
 
Senior Allison Glass had nine digs in the match, recording eight of them in the first set.