The Case Western Reserve University volleyball team swept Hiram College 25-12, 25-19, 25-19 in a non-conference match on Wednesday night at Horsburgh Gymnasium in Cleveland.

With the win in their penultimate regular season home match of 2023, the Spartans improved to 17-5. The Terriers fell to 6-14 following the loss.

Junior outside hitter Rea Marfatia recorded a season-high 16 kills without committing an attacking error to lead the Spartan attack while adding seven digs defensively. Senior middle blocker Jennifer Ngo had a .444 hitting percentage and registered nine kills. Leading the defense was first-year outside hitter Emily Goodpaster who had a career-high 13 digs to go along with six kills. Junior setter/right side hitter Carly Scott led the team with 19 assists, and senior setter Ansley Yamaato added 13 assists and seven digs. Overall, the Spartans had nine service aces in the match, including three by senior libero Alyssa Blessinger and two each from Goodpaster and Ngo.

CWRU started the match strong, winning the first five points and 12 of the first 15 points. Hiram cut its deficit to six, 14-8, but that was the closest the Terriers would get to tying the score. The Spartans led wire-to-wire, eventually winning the set on a kill by sophomore outside hitter Kalli Wall. The team recorded a hitting percentage of .696 in the first set, making no errors on 23 attacks and recording 16 kills.

The second set featured five lead changes as the teams battled early in the frame. A 6-0 Hiram run gave the visitors a 9-6 lead, but the Spartans won six of the next seven points following a timeout to reclaim the advantage. The Terriers retook the lead, 14-13, later in the set, but a kill by Ngo and a block by Ngo and Marfatia gave the hosts a lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the second set. Hiram pulled within one, but two consecutive kills by Goodpaster and a service ace by Ngo forced the second Terrier timeout of the set. The visitors were able to score three more times, but back-to-back kills by Marfatia gave the hosts a 2-0 lead with a 25-19 set victory.

Looking to force a fourth set, the Terriers started set number three with a 6-2 run. However, that would be the team's largest lead as the Spartans fought back to tie the score at 12. Case Western Reserve could not take the lead as Hiram scored five of the next eight points to claim a two-point advantage. Kills by Scott and Goodpaster tied the score at 17, and a service ace by Yamaato, the team's eighth of the night, gave the Spartans an 18-17 lead. A Terrier kill knotted the score at 18, but CWRU ended the set on a 7-1 run to close out the match.

The Spartans will take 10 days off from competition before returning to the court for the third and final University Athletic Association Round Robin on Sunday, October 22. CWRU will face Carnegie Mellon at 12 p.m. and Chicago at 2 p.m. in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the campus of Brandeis University. Case Western Reserve and CMU enter the last day of conference play with a record of 3-2, while the Maroons are 2-3 in UAA matches.