On Tuesday, the DePauw women's volleyball team improved its record to surpass its second-longest win streak in program history to improve its record to 16-2.
The Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops (11-10) traveled to the Neal Fieldhouse to be defeated by the Tigers in only three games.
The first set, which included a 13-3 DePauw scoring-run after starting in a 6-3 deficit, was won 25-17.
The second set did not fare as well.
"We got a little complacent, we won the first game, came into the second game thinking it would go the same so we just let them get into it," sophomore Mary Kate Etling said. "But, we noticed it and had to start kicking it in high gear."
DePauw began the second set down 6-1 before Tigers head coach Deb Zellers took her first timeout. Coming out of that time out, they began to make some changes.
The first serve back was quickly finished with a kill down the middle by junior Kelly Doyle.
"We didn't want our aggressiveness to stop, but we needed to keep the ball in play," Zellers said.
She took two timeouts within the second set, and out of both of them, the team came back with renewed focus.
"Coach [Zellers] called a timeout and just told us that we needed to play more as a team," Etling said. "We were playing as individuals."
The game did end up in Tiger favor with a final score of 25-21, which included two DePauw ace serves in the last five points.
Throughout the entire second set, the largest deficit was seven points in the Battling Bishops' favor, but the Tigers went on to combat that heavily in the third game.
Finishing the match, the last match was ended with a 25-14 score in the third set.
"We just didn't give up any more of those tips and junk plays," Zellers said. "In game two, we took that option away from them, and it's how we came back. They had to be more aggressive in their attack, and then our block was able to be successful."
It was in game three that they found how to find those important pieces of their game and come together for the win.
"We're just going to take it one game at a time," Etling said. "We're focusing on playing as a team."