CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Wofford volleyball team displayed immense heart Friday evening in Memorial Gymnasium, needing a comeback and riding the momentum of a see-saw fourth-set win to earn the five-set triumph (25-18, 18-25, 22-25, 30-28, 15-11) over the George Washington Revolutionaries. With the win in Virginia's Jefferson Cup Invitational, the Terriers improve to 8-2 while stretching their win streak to four matches. The Revolutionaries fall to 2-8.
 
Wofford recorded more kills (62-54) and digs (81-70) in the contest. GW won the service line, 9-6, but the Terriers were better at the net, 9-7. The Terriers also displayed a better hitting clip, .235 to the .226 mark of the Revs.
 
The Terriers were led by three in double-digit kills. Sarah MacLean topped the team with 15, and Millie Loehr added 12 of her own. Bri Mahoney tallied a new career high with 11 kills, and she added 10 digs for her first-career double-double. All three hit .390 or better, led by MacLean's .444 percentage. Mahoney hit .400, and Loehr was just under that mark with a .393 clip.
 
Emily Hodsdon tallied a pair of aces to lead the team, and in doing so she reached the 100-career aces threshold. The senior added a team-best 33 assists and 10 digs to tally her third double-double of the season, 25^th career.
 
Sarah Barham led the team's blocking efforts with five, and Loehr was a touch behind with four. Mary Emily Morgan added three of her own. Taylor Pecht dished 12 helpers, and she just missed out on a double-double with nine digs. Abbey Richman's 19 digs topped the Terriers and pushed her double-digit streak to 31 consecutive matches. She added a career-high seven assists.
 
The first set saw Wofford take control early with a six-points run, 13-4. Though GW tried to push back later, pulling within 21-17, a service error flipped control back to the Terriers, who took advantage by claiming four of the final five rallies for a 25-18 set one victory. Wofford took advantage of six Revolutionary attack errors in the initial frame while committing just two of its own.
 
The second set was somewhat of a reversal, as it was GW who led 16-9 in the middle goings. Though Wofford pulled within five at 21-16, the hole was too much to climb out of, and GW won set two, 25-18, tying the match. Wofford committed six errors in the frame to GW's four.
 
Set three was a back-and-forth tilt with the sides trading five-point swings early. Wofford led 12-8 before GW began to chip away, ultimately taking a 21-19 lead. A three-point Wofford run, highlighted by a Bri Mahoney kill, pushed the Terriers back in front by a point, 22-21. But the Revs hit a late stride, claiming the final four points from there to win set four, 25-22.
 
With their backs against the wall, the Terriers came out swinging in the fourth set. Emily Hodsdon capped a three-point swing with her 100^th-career ace, pushing Wofford ahead 13-7. But a six-point GW run followed, tying the contest at 13-13. The teams traded some blows until the Revs went on a 6-1 swing, leading 21-17. Wofford showed no quit, however, and kept battling. Though GW brought about match point, 24-22, Sarah MacLean put home a kill to precede a Rev error, leveling the set at 24-24. This began four consecutive instances of GW winning a point to bring about match point with Wofford following up with a tying point. The fourth instance was a Millie Loehr kill, which finally sparked a three-point Wofford swing. MacLean and Mahoney set home the next kills, giving Wofford a 30-28 set four win, forcing a winner-take-all fifth frame.
 
Though the Terriers won the first two points in the fifth, the Revs battled to take a 4-2 lead. However, Wofford fought back and took a 9-7 lead with a Bri Mahoney kill and ace combo. This gave the Terriers the spark they needed, as Wofford won four of five points to lead 13-9. Despite trading a pair of blows, Sarah Barham delivered a kill to ice the set and match, 15-11.
 
Wofford returns to the court tomorrow afternoon in the Jefferson Cup Invitational finale. The event utilizes a winners' and losers' bracket format, and with the win the Terriers play next at 2:30 p.m. Wofford will face either the host Virginia or Norfolk State.