OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Southwestern Christian University Lady Eagles rallied from 2-1 down and took the last two sets to win 3-2 over the Mid-America Christian University Lady Evangels in Sooner Athletic Conference action tonight (Nov. 4) inside the Gaulke Activity Center. 

The Lady Evangels snapped a 1-1 tie by jumping out to a huge 17-5 lead in the third set before hanging on to win 25-20 and take the lead in the match. 

But SCU responded in a big way by similarly surging to a big lead of 18-11 in the fourth set and scraped out a 25-23 win to square the match at 2-2 and force a decisive fifth set.

Kills from Hannah Luedtke, Shannon Niemeier and Melissa Hoppal helped the Lady Evangels to an early 3-2 lead in the set, but the Lady Eagles scored four straight to take the lead and never looked back in a 15-10 win that gave SCU the win.

Niemeier led the Lady Evangels with a match-high 26 kills and Luedtke delivered a team-best 39 assists.  Luedtke also had 12 digs, while Camera Broadnax had a team-high 19 digs. Larissa Runyan also reached double-figure digs with 14.

Courtney Clark paced the Lady Eagles with 22 kills and Courtney Traylor recorded a match-high 56 assists. Five Lady Eagles tallied double-digit digs, led by Jessie Crenshaw's 27.

The Lady Evangels will wrap up the home portion of their schedule Thursday night (Nov. 6) against East Central University at 7 p.m.