(WOOSTER, Ohio) - In the final match for the Quakers this season, Wilmington won a five set thriller over The College of Wooster Fightin' Scots in Wooster on Thursday night. Every set the Quakers won, was by a two-point margin. The Quakers lost set one 25-20, but took sets two and three 25-23 and 28-26. Then up in the fourth set, the Scots took that set 25-22 before the Quakers got the final knockout with a 15-13 fifth set tiebreak win.

The turning point of the match was a third-set replay review. The review went in favor of Wilmington, tying the match at 24. Sarah Brown got one of her 17 kills to take a lead 25-24. Then after each team ceding set point for the next four points, Andie Dolven, in her final match as a Quaker, had a service ace to close the third set at 28-26.

But it was in the fourth set, when Wooster's Emma Fleck got the serve at 22-20 and closed out the fourth set with three kills, one each by Kora Burill, Tamara Turner and Izzy Cozzie, and a pair of attack errors.

In the final set Wooster went on a rally to go from trailing 5-3 to leading 8-6. After gaining that lead, the Scots ceded two attack errors to even the match. Neither team gains a major lead, until a Josie Crabtree kill to get the score to 13-12, which sets up an attack error by Wooster to give the Quakers match point. After giving up a kill to Tamara Turner, a Sarah Brown block ends the match, and the season.

Three Quakers get double digit kills, Brown, Crabtree gets 13 and Emelia Mohler tallies 12. Emma Specht sets up her future to replace Dolven with 21 assists. Brown had five total blocks, Smith and Brinlee Preston each had four blocks. Dolven closes out her record setting career with four more aces and 26 more assists. The new career records for aces and assists will be posted later this academic year.

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Wilmington concludes the 2024-25 season with a 6-20 overall record and will be back in action next fall for the 2025-26 season.