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Box Score

INDIANAPOLIS -- Courtney Anglemyer had a career-high 27 kills and hit .511 to lead No. 21 University of Indianapolis volleyball past No. 17 Lewis, 3-2 (18-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-18, 23-21), in the finals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament in front of 546 at Ruth Lilly Center on Sunday afternoon.

The Greyhounds (22-7) won their third GLVC Championship (2003, 2009, 2011) and earned the GLVC automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. UIndy will find out its NCAA draw during the selection show tonight on NCAA.com.

"(This) is awesome," Anglemyer said. "We did a great job coming together. We fought till the end and actually finished. It felt great to do it on our home court with our fans."

"She's a four-year starter that's been in huge games for us, so this wasn't new," head coach Jody Rogers said. "She knew she had to step up and she did. I know next week will be different because if someone doesn't have a good game, someone else steps up and that's the philosophy of our team."

GLVC Freshman of the Year Meghan Binkerd had a career-high 28 digs, 58 assists and three kills, while Kourtney Crawford added 13 kills and First Team All-GLVC outside hitter Kristina Hefferan had 11 kills, 19 digs, two blocks and two assists.

"Meghan's feeding me those balls and getting the passes that we needed to get. I had my team behind me all the way," Anglemyer said.

Amy Oldenburg added 24 digs, First Team All-GLVC outside hitter Kristina Kerrigan contributed 16 digs and Courtney Roach finished with 11 digs.

The Greyhounds hit .164 with 66 kills, while Lewis hit .198 with 79 kills. Both teams were over 100 digs with 115 for UIndy and 110 for Lewis. The Flyers led in blocks, 16-9, but struggled serving with one ace and 12 errors. UIndy countered with one ace and two errors.

Hannah Koeneman hit .314 with 31 kills and four blocks, while Danielle Mount had 13 kills, 11 blocks (two solo) and six digs. Leigh Barea finished with 64 assists, 16 digs, five blocks and three kills and Amy Choi led all players with 34 digs.

"The girls came to play and it was back-and-forth," Rogers said. "Lewis is an unbelievable program. Lorelee (Smith) does a great job with coaching her girls and it came down to who made the last mistake and fortunately, it wasn't us."

Even with momentum going against them after dropping the fourth set, Lewis opened the fifth by taking a 3-0 lead and led by two, 8-6, when the teams switched sides. The Flyers were the first to 11, 11-8, when Kerrigan had a kill and two Lewis errors evened the score. Lewis scored the next point, but a block by Crawford and Watkins and Anglemyer kill put UIndy in front, 13-12. The teams traded points with a Crawford kill giving UIndy championship point, 14-13. Lewis answered as the two teams went back-and-forth with six championship points for UIndy and three for Lewis. The Greyhounds finally prevailed, 23-21, as Anglemyer and Hefferan had back-to-back kills to ignite pandemonium in the RLC.

"We've had off the court stuff happen and we've really rallied around each other," Rogers said. "So it's just one more thing. We never wanted to quit. We were relentless and it's just awesome that they really stuck it out."

Lewis had 18 kills and hit .229 in the final set, while UIndy hit .282 with 14 kills, seven by Anglemyer. Overall, the match had 49 ties and 19 lead changes.

The teams traded points to start the first set until Lewis built a three-point lead, 12-9. The Greyhounds couldn't pull back into a tie and the Flyers pulled away to strike first, 25-18.

UIndy hit .071 with 10 kills and the Flyers had 17 kills and tallied a .400 attack percentage.

The second set was back-and-forth until UIndy staged a 4-1 run to take the lead, 13-9, after a Koeneman error. UIndy kept Lewis at bay and built the lead to six, 22-16, after consecutive Anglemyer terminations. Lewis staged a rally and went on a 5-1 run to pull within two, 23-21, when Rogers called timeout. Anglemyer had another kill for set point, but then Lewis scored twice. On the third set point, Kelly McConkey of Lewis tried to take advantage of a scrambling UIndy defense after an overpass, but her surprise attack went into the net, 25-23.

UIndy hit .130 with 15 kills, 8-of-11 attacking by Anglemyer, while Lewis had 14 kills and hit .111.

Another close start in the third set until Lewis went up by three, 16-13, but two Anglemyer kills and a block with Kerrigan on a 4-0 run put UIndy in front, 17-16, when Lewis called time. Lewis tied the score three times until going back ahead, 20-19, but a Crawford kill kept the score tied, 21-21. Lewis answered with three in a row to build a cushion to pull ahead in the match, 25-22.

Lewis had 17 kills and hit .245 to build a 2-1 lead in the match, while UIndy hit .179 with 13 kills.

A block by the Flyers gave them the two-point edge, 10-8, but UIndy began to take over from there to extend the match. Back-to-back Hefferan kills capped an 8-2 run to put UIndy up four, 16-12. After a score by Lewis, Anglemyer had a kill to send Roach to the service line for a 5-0 run that put the Hounds up eight, 21-13. Lewis couldn't pull closer than six as Julia Watkins' kill sent the match to a fifth set.

"(Coming from behind) puts more confidence into our team that we can do anything," Anglemyer said. "It doesn't matter who is on the other side as long as we come together and do it as a team."

UIndy had 14 kills and hit .176 in the set, while the Flyers hit .075 with 13 kills.

This was the fifth consecutive year that UIndy and Lewis met in the GLVC Tournament and the fourth time in the finals. The two teams have split those final match-ups with wins by Lewis in 2007 and 2010 and UIndy this year and 2009.

The Greyhounds will be making their fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and the sixth in program history, all under the leadership of Coach Rogers.