The Case Western Reserve University volleyball team finished the regular season with a three-set win over the College of Wooster on Saturday night at Horsburgh Gymnasium in Cleveland, defeating the Fighting Scots 25-16, 25-21, 25-8.

Prior to the match, the Spartans (11-16) celebrated their three graduating members as part of Senior Night. Wooster fell to 10-15 with the loss.

Stats and Standouts

• First-year Maya Zarow led the team with 16 kills and a .538 attacking percentage, adding six digs and two blocks
• Junior Sienna Olson contributed eight kills on a .500 hitting percentage
• Juniors Avery Basinger (21 assists, eight digs) and Elena Esquivel (12 assists, nine digs) handled setting duties for CWRU
• Senior Katie Yanni had five kills and a dig
• Senior Sude Naz Item finished the match with four digs and a service ace
• Senior Emily Goodpaster contributed a dig in two sets

First Set (25-16)

• Leading by just one, 8-7, the Spartans used a 7-2 run to build a six-point advantage
• Five different Spartans had kills with Item adding a service ace during the run
• Wooster cut the deficit to four, 15-11, but a 7-3 CWRU run increased the lead to eight
• Zarow ended the set with a kill after the visitors fought off a set point

Second Set (25-21)

• The Fighting Scots started the second stanza with a 4-1 lead, including three service aces in a row
• CWRU battled back as Olson put down three consecutive kills to give the Spartans a 10-9 edge
• The two teams traded the lead back-and-forth before kills by Yanni and junior Madeline Halter tied the score at 16
• Wooster reclaimed a two-point edge
• A service error ignited a set-ending 8-2 run for Case Western Reserve as the hosts tied the score at 19 on a block by Olson and pulled ahead on a Zarow kill
• The Spartans claimed the final point on a Wooster setting error

Third Set (25-8)

• CWRU won the first seven points of the third set on the service of first-year Kate Williams
• Esquivel had three kills in the set-opening run and Zarow added two kills and a block with sophomore Isabel Haytayan
• After a Wooster kill stopped the run, the Spartans won nine points in row on the service of Esquivel to take a commanding 16-1 lead
• Zarow and Haytayan combined for a block, Zarow added three kills, and Esquivel aced a serve during the second run
• CWRU won seven of the final 13 points to clinch the match, taking the set on Zarow's 16th kill of the night

Spartan Notes

• Case Western Reserve has won its last five matches against Wooster and improved to 16-8 against the Fighting Scots since 2002
• CWRU hit .391 for the match, compared to .141 for Wooster
• The Spartans finished the season with a 4-6 record at Horsburgh Gymnasium, winning their final two home matches
• 16 members of the team played in the match
• Zarow had at least 10 kills in a match for the 19th time in 27 matches

Up Next

The Spartans will conclude the 2026 season with the 2026 University Athletic Association Volleyball Championship held at the Highmark Center in Pittsburgh. CWRU, seeded sixth in the eight-team draw, will face host and third-seed Carnegie Mellon on Saturday, November 14 at 1 p.m. in the quarterfinals with a match at 3 p.m. against either second-seeded WashU or seventh-seeded Brandeis.