The Dominican University women's volleyball team rallied to top the MSOE Raiders in four sets (20-25, 26-24, 25-20, 25-18) in Milwaukee on Tuesday night to improve to improve to 12-6 on the season and 4-1 in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC).
 
After dropping the opening set, the Stars found themselves trailing 24-19 in the second.  After a Raiders' service error, Dominican's Anastasia Labadessa stepped back to serve the next six points to even the match at one set apiece.  Labadessa, the conference's leader in aces per set, started the spurt with an ace.  After kill by Gabija Sinickaite and another Labadessa ace, the Stars evened the set at 24-24 when Sinickaite and Stephanie Cole teamed up for a block before another kill by Sinickaite set up set point for Dominican which turned out to be another Labadessa ace.
 
"I'm very proud of our ability to turn it around after the slow start tonight," said Cameron Andrew, the Stars' head women's volleyball coach. "I have to give a huge shoutout to Anastasia. She did a great job of giving us an opportunity to come back and take that second set. To rip off six straight points, and finish on an ace, was great. Once we pulled that out, we were able to settle into a bit of a rhythm and play some good volleyball."
 
Dominican then went 15-for-21 on sideouts in the third set before limiting the Raiders to a -.129 hitting percentage with eight errors to just four kills in the clinching fourth set.
 
Gillian Jones led the Stars with a match-high 14 kills on just 29 total attacks.  Sinickaite added 12 kills while Summer Smith finished with ten as Dominican hit .217 as a team in the winning effort.  Labadessa shared setting duties with Madi Palmer, doling out 22 and 21 assists respectively.  The setting combo utilized six different hitters, including Elin Ream who knocked down eight kills and Cole who tallied six.
 
Defensively, the Stars collected 64 digs on the night.  Libero Sarah Lychock picked up a match-high 20 digs.  Both Jones and Smith rounded out double-doubles with 18 and ten digs respectively, while at the net, both Cole and Sinickaite combined for four blocks.
 
Dominican will look to run its current winning streak to four on Friday, traveling to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to meet the Marian University Sabres.  First serve is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Marian's Sadoff Gymnasium.