COLUMBIA, Ky. – At the Biggers Sports Center, senior Camryn Rich recorded a rare triple-double to help guide the Lindsey Wilson volleyball team back from a 2-1 deficit to knock off the University of the Cumberlands in exciting fashion.

The local's setter finished with a career-best 11 kills to go along with 57 assists and 19 digs. All told, she was one of five Blue Raiders to post 10 or more kills, as the team nearly matched an all-time program record with 78 total successful attacks.

"I've coached college for eleven years and I have only had one other setter who has pulled that off," explained head coach Jerry Forbes postgame. "But it takes everybody on the floor for someone like Camryn to achieve that, so I think it's a testament to how much the team fought together to get the win.

Lindsey Wilson certainly did fight on Tuesday night, as did the Patriots who fell behind one set early but went on to rally off back-to-back narrow victories to push the Blue Raiders to the brink.

Once the match opened, the home side wasted little time getting their attack on a roll. After slipping behind 2-0, consecutive kills by Rich, Madison Bidwell, and Elizabeth Moore led Lindsey Wilson to its first lead, 5-2. The barrage did not cease there, as three-straight strikes by Savanah Pippin soon after helped expand the advantage to 8-4. From there, the two rivals traded hits, with the emergence of Alexis Smith facilitating the Raiders' closing run to take the first set, 25-18.

Sets two and three quickly turned into battles within themselves. In the latter stages of the earlier of the two, Lindsey Wilson led 22-20 before charging back with an 8-4 swing to tie the match. Then, in the middle frame, the hosts raced in front 11-4 thanks to seven kills and a pair of service aces by Elisa Burzio, but a 12-4 response by the visitors swiftly propelled them to the front, 16-15. The local's thunderous attack kept them in contention down the stretch of the third set, but it could not fend off a 5-2 run by the Patriots that ultimately gave them the 29-27 set win.

Now facing a one-set hole in their own backyard, the Blue Raiders needed all their energy to force a tiebreaker, and that's exactly what they got. With Lindsey Wilson leading 13-10, a kill by Pippin sparked a 7-3 sequence to balloon the cushion to 20-13, and from that point, the blue and white scored five of the final seven points to send the match into a deciding fifth frame.

The advantage in the final set fell early to Cumberlands, 4-1, but a subsequent five-point run by the Blue Raiders, highlighted by four kills, hastily asserted the home team in front and they would not surrender that position for the remainder of the evening. Even as the Patriots knotted the score 12-12, back-to-back kills by Bidwell and Aleksandra Wyrzkowska, followed by a visitors' attack error sealed the deal to get Lindsey Wilson back in the win column.

"It's fight," expressed Forbes. "It's what I've been trying to get out of them all season. Tonight did not go smoothly, but it came down to will and who wanted it more."

Smith and Pippin paced the Blue Raider offense with 20 and 15 kills, respectively, while Rich, Stoermer, and Bidwell finished with 11 each.

Defensively, Embry Burgess posted a team-high 23 digs, followed by 19 from Rich, 14 from Logan Seagraves, and 12 from Natalie Ackermann.

"We came into that fourth set and said we just got to want it more," said Rich. "A lot of teams in our conference are equally matched with us this season, so I tell the team all the time that we have to have more heart and more determination."

Lindsey Wilson wraps up a five-game homestand on Friday afternoon against the University of Pikeville at 5 p.m. CST.