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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Senior Ashley Ring led everyone with a season-high 24 kills as the Purple Aces volleyball team took a 3-1 win over Loyola on Saturday evening at the Carson Center.
 
Ring hit .328 to pace the Aces (6-11, 2-3 MVC) to their second win in a row.  Freshman Genesis Miranda was next for UE, finishing the night with 15 kills.  On the other side, four Ramblers (6-9, 2-4 MVC) finished with double-digit kills.  Morgan Reardon led the way with 20 while Brittney Brown totaled 16.  Sami Hansen notched 15. 
 
Evansville fell behind by a 7-3 score early on as four Ramblers posted a kill.  The Aces inched their way back into the game, tying it up at 15-15 on a Grace Carter kill.  Stephanie Cerino notched a pair of kills in the rally.  Loyola ended the run, registering the next two tallies in a run that extended to 7-1 as the Ramblers took their largest lead of the game at 22-16 before taking a 25-19 win.
 
Six Ashley Ring kills led all players in the frame, but Loyola hit .341 as Morgan Reardon posted five to lead Loyola to the win.
 
Genesis Miranda set the Aces on a 7-2 run to open up the second frame.  The quick start saw UE up 12-8 before the Ramblers scored three in a row on their way to knotting the score at 13-13 on back-to-back Sami Hansen kills.  Evansville wrestled the lead back, taking a 22-20 advantage on a Ring kill before Loyola scored three in a row to take their first lead of the set at 23-22.
 
The Aces did not give up, rallying back to tie it up at 25-25.  Following an error by Loyola, Miranda clinched the set with her fourth kill of the frame.  UE's defense held Loyola's offense to .208 while hitting .297.  Ring notched six more kills in the set.
 
Game three saw UE jump out to another early edge at 4-1 before the Ramblers tied it up for the first time at 5-5.  With the score tied up at 9-9, Evansville made its move, reeling off the next five points as Tathianna Cordero recorded a service ace in the stretch for UE.  Loyola chipped away at the deficit, tying it up at 19-19 on a UE error.
 
Four points in a row by UE saw them take control, but Loyola had the answer once again, reeling off four in a row as Brittany Brown notched a pair of kills to tie it up.  Miranda ended the stretch with a kill before a solo block by Cathy Schreiber ended the frame and gave UE a 25-23
win and a 2-1 lead in the match.
 
Several Rambler errors set the Aces in the right direction in the fourth frame as they took an 8-4 advantage.  A Libby Bresser kill helped Loyola cut the gap to two, but UE took advantage of four more Rambler errors to open up their largest lead of the game at 16-11.
 
Soon after, Ring and Miranda posted back-to-back points as the Aces lead grew to seven at 19-12.  At that point, Loyola's offense got in gear, getting with two points at 24-22.  Following a timeout, the Aces got the clincher behind Ring's 24^th and final tally of the evening.  It was her eighth kill of the set.
 
Road contests at UNI and Drake await Evansville next weekend.  The Aces face UNI on Friday before heading to Des Moines to take on Drake the next day.  Both matches begin at 7 p.m.