INDIANAPOLIS – Freshman Hannah Oehlberg finished with a career-high 21 kills to help the Jaguars to a five-set win over Cleveland State on Wednesday (Oct. 31) night. IUPUI (6-21, 3-10 Horizon) came back from down 2-1 in the match to win set four and five over the Vikings.

"We showed pretty good resiliency after getting beaten pretty good in set two and set three, I thought we had in control but lost 25-23," said head coach Steve Payne. "They did a really good job coming back in set four and that carried over in to the fifth. They fought hard today."

Following Oehlberg, who led the Jags in kills for the fourth-straight match, Maddie Dean also finished with a career-high, tallying 14 kills and Haley Hoffman and Abby Boatman each collected nine. Junior Kaitlyn Johnson finished with eight kills, another career-high notched by a Jaguar attacker.

"It is nice that [Hannah] is out there and putting some balls away," said Payne. "We need someone to go out there and swing away and she did just that."

"The setters did an amazing job setting us up and putting us in the right places for us to succeed," said Oehlberg. "The more I've been playing in the game with everyone has really helped my confidence."

The Jags finished with a .219 hitting percentage as a team and held Cleveland State (16-9, 10-3 Horizon) to just .148. IUPUI did so by collecting a season-high 98 digs as a team and blocking nine attacks. Rhiannon Schuenemann led the back line defense for IUPUI with 29 digs. Maggie Gibson, who also paced the offense with 44 assists, collected 16 digs, followed by Rebecca Schlechte (14), McKayla Wright (11) and Rachel Hickey (10).

At the net, Boatman led all Jags with six blocks, followed by four each from Gibson and Hoffman.

IUPUI started strong overcoming a four-point deficit to win the set 25-20. After the Vikings took a 16-14 lead, IUPUI responded with four-straight points starting with a kill by Oehlberg. After a block by Dean and Boatman, Dean added a kill and an error by Cleveland State put the Jags up 18-16. The set remained close and another Oehlberg kill gave the Jags set point. After a service error, a kill by Abby Boatman closed out the set.

Set two was a much different story as the Jags were held to just .047 hitting and allowed the Vikings to hit .306 as Cleveland State cruised to a 25-13 set win to tie the match.

The third set was a much tighter set throughout and IUPUI grabbed a 230-22 lead after a block by Gibson and Boatman but a service error by the Jags tied the set and two-straight points by Cleveland State gave the Vikings the 25-23 set win.

With their backs against the wall, IUPUI fell behind 15-12 in the fourth set after an attack error by Johnson. The Jags responded with two kills by Oehlberg and a kill by Boatman to tie the set. The teams traded points until Cleveland State took a 20-19 lead with a block. A kill by Dean tied the match and kickstarted a run for the Jags. Johnson added a kill and teamed with Hoffman for a block. After an error by Cleveland State, an ace by Hickey gave the Jags set point. IUPUI forced a fifth set after an attack went wide by the Vikings.

Playing in just its second five-set match of the season, IUPUI traded with points with the Vikings until the Jags scored three-straight, capped by a kill by Hoffman to go up 7-5. A 4-0 run, this one featuring a kill by Oehlberg, block by Hoffman and kill by Gibson put IUPUI up 12-7. After a service error put the Vikings down 13-10, the Jags grabbed set point with Oehlberg's 21^st kill. The Vikings sent a ball out to end the match and give IUPUI the win.

IUPUI will hit the road for its final road match of the season taking on the Milwaukee Panthers on Friday at 7 p.m.