The Muhlenberg volleyball team scored the first six points of the match and never looked back, defeating Ursinus 25-7, 25-18, 25-19 to record its second straight Centennial Conference sweep.
The Mules (13-13, 4-5) narrowly missed tying a school record in the first set, recording their second-biggest win ever in a CC match. In 2009, they won the first set against Bryn Mawr 25-6.
Muhlenberg hadn't kept a CC opponent to single digits in a set since a 2022 match against Bryn Mawr. That was also the last season the Mules swept back-to-back CC matches.
Junior
Abigail Oswari (two kills and an ace) and freshman
Lizzie Steinkamp (two kills) scored five of the six points in the match-opening run. Muhlenberg was already comfortably ahead, 9-3, before going on a 12-0 run behind the serving of junior
Maddy Budris. The Mules scored all but one of the 12 points on offense, with Steinkamp adding five more kills in the run, Budris serving two aces, and junior
Ansley Asche contributing a pair of kills and a block.
The Mules hit .536 in the first set while holding the Bears (5-17, 0-9) to a negative hitting percentage.
Steinkamp finished the set with seven kills in only 10 attempts and ended the match with a high of 12 kills, becoming only the sixth freshman in program history to record at least 250 kills in a season.
Ursinus led 10-5 at one point in the second set before a 7-0 run, with senior
Jenny Ryan serving, flipped the script. As she did in the first set, Oswari finished the second set with a kill.
Muhlenberg scored the first three points of the third set and gradually pulled away to secure the sweep. Freshman
Eva Myers (pictured above) ended the match with her second kill.
Oswari finished with 9 kills. Ryan's 18 assists pushed her over 1900 for her career, while Budris dished out 15 assists. Senior
Chloe Gaglione led the defense with 13 digs.
