LEWISTON, Idaho – The Lewis-Clark State Volleyball Team fought to their third-straight five-set match on Friday night when they fell to Montana Tech 3-2 (25-21, 23-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-11). Aubrey King led the offensive attack for the Warriors with 17 kills, and Rachel Gregg notched her 10th double-double of the season with 17 digs and 16 kills.

LC got off to a hot start with a three-point run to begin the opening set. A second three-point run fueled by kills from Olivia Jarvis and King grew the lead to 6-1 as the Warriors continued to hold a steady lead. Back-to-back service aces from Hannah Pond pushed the advantage to 19-15 before the Diggers surged ahead to take a 21-20 lead. A kill from Gregg tied things up 21-21, but four-straight from Montana Tech ended the set 25-21.

Set two got off to a similar start as Lauren West produced back-to-back service aces to push LC ahead 3-0. The Orediggers bounced back to take a 15-11 lead before a pair of kills from Hayley Alvarez knotted the set 21-21. Another kill from Alvarez and an attack error by Montana Tech pushed the score to set point before West put down a kill to close the set.

The Warriors opened the third set with a 6-4 lead, but the Orediggers quickly came back to take an 11-8 lead. A kill from West put LC up 18-17, but Montana Tech charged on to take the set and gain a 2-1 advantage in the match.

The momentum shifted in the fourth set in favor of the Warriors. Two kills from Jarvis and an ace from West had them up 3-0 to begin the frame, and a kill from Gregg pushed the lead to 10-8. Montana Tech came back to even the score 10-10, but the Warriors answered back with six-straight to take a 16-10 lead. The offense continued to roll to a 25-18 win in the set.

Montana Tech owned the fifth set from the start, jumping out to a quick 7-3 lead. LC managed to string together three-straight points with kills from Jarvis and King and an ace from West, but could not hold off the Orediggers.

As mentioned, Kind led the offense with 17 kills to go with a .452 attack percentage. Gregg followed with 16 coupled with 17 digs. Gionni Brown led the defense with 19 digs and West tallied 44 assists.

"During the match, the one thing I asked was 'What are we going to learn from today's game to help us for the future?'" Head Coach Shaun Pohlman said. "The future could be tomorrow, it could be next weekend at the Conference Tournament, or it could be for this moment. There was no steadiness and that made it hard to build something tonight."

The Warriors will celebrate Senior Day on Saturday, honoring their seven seniors. Hayley Alvarez, Rachel Gregg, Olivia Jarvis, Aubrey King, Mikayla Sellers-Wiebe and Lauren West will all be honored in a pregame ceremony beginning approximately 15 minutes prior to game time. The match is slated for 2 p.m. in the Activity Center.