DAYTON, Ohio – No. 22 Dayton won the series Saturday afternoon with a 3-0 win over Loyola Chicago. It concluded a four-match road trip for the Ramblers who will return home for the next four.

Loyola sits at 9-9 overall and 4-3 in the A-10 following the weekend. 

"We were tested by a really solid Dayton team this weekend," said head coach Amanda Berkley. "I don't think we played up to our standard. We saw glimpses of it in the third set yesterday and the first set today, but we need to play a full match that way. We will get back in the gym this week and make adjustments ahead of the VCU series."
 
Bree Borum notched another double-double on the year with team-bests 12 kills and 15 assists. She fell just one dig shy of a triple-double with nine.
 
Emma Henry dished out 11 assists, while Esma Ajanovic had nine kills to finish just behind Borum Saturday afternoon.
 
How It Happened
Set One: The start of Saturday's match saw 11 ties before the Flyers broke away down the stretch. Loyola went down two early, but Kaitlyn Burke and Ann Marie Remmes went for back-to-back kills to tie the set, 3-3. Burke would get another kill helping lead Loyola to its first lead, 5-4. The Ramblers held control until Liana Sarkissian and Brooke Smith tallied two straight kills for an 11-10 edge midway through. Dayton took over with a 3-0 run, and despite the Ramblers getting within one on two occasions, the Flyers responded with another four consecutive points for a five-point lead, 22-17. It wasn't over as Burke sparked a 4-0 run for Loyola to get within one of Dayton. Burke and Borum then teamed to with a pair of kills to tie it one final time, 23-23. Despite the Rambler effort, the Flyers closed to win, 25-23.
 
Set Two: Alana Yates and Lexie Almodovar tallied two kills each in a 6-0 run to open the second set for Dayton. Borum got the Ramblers on board with two kills to break up the Flyers' offensive attack. Dayton grew its lead to double-figures in a 4-0 stretch to go up 16-4. Ajanovic tallied a kill, while Yates had an error to help the Ramblers get within nine. Loyola cut the lead to nine with three straight kills from Ajanovic late in the set, 24-15, but Smith tallied set point for the Flyers.
 
Set Three: Loyola and Dayton went back and forth to open the third. Marta Cvitkovic, Burke, Ajanovic, and Borum recorded early kills to trail by just one point of the Flyers, 5-4. It wasn't long before Dayton heated up, putting six consecutive points on the board for a 13-5 edge. Kaitlyn McNeel and Almodovar helped the Flyers widen the gap to 10 with three straight kills, while another 4-0 Dayton run blew the lead open to 20-7. Remmes scored Loyola's final point on a kill, but Dayton pulled away, 25-12.
 
Up Next
Loyola returns to Gentile next weekend to play VCU. First serve is 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday.