The Wright State volleyball team won the first two games, including a wild one in the opener, but then had to hold off a Cleveland State rally as the Raiders won in five games Friday night in Horizon League action in Cleveland, winning 39-37, 30-25, 21-30, 17-30, 15-13.

Game one alone had 23 ties and 10 lead changes as the two teams were even at every point starting at 27 until the Raiders pulled it out by scoring the final three points. WSU took advantage of an attack error and ball handling error by the Vikings before Lindsey Frank ended it with an ace.

Wright State then jumped out to a 10-4 lead in the second game, thanks in part to three kills from Becca Awaa, and after CSU closed the margin to 25-22, put the game out of reach with three straight points.

Cleveland State, though, started its comeback by hitting .400 in the third game and claimed game four with a 10-1 run midway through. The Vikings then led 10-9 in the fifth game before the Raiders regained the lead on an Alisha Kimbro kill and a block from Awaa and Tara Geegan.

The Vikings tied it again at 11 on a WSU attack error, but another Awaa kill followed by Geegan and Kimbro teaming up on a block gave the Raiders the lead for good and Wright State sealed the win on kills from Geegan and Jenny Schultz.

CSU had a sizeable margin in kills (80-59) and in hitting percentage (.200-.127), but Wright State countered with a 15-12.5 edge in block and the Raiders outhit Cleveland State .208-.145 in the three games WSU won.

Schultz recorded her sixth consecutive double-double and 16th on the year overall with 17 kills and 18 digs while Kimbro had one as well, her 12th of the season, of 12 kills and 18 digs. Geegan, who also had seven block assists, and Awaa each added 11 kills, Lizzy Gunn eight blocks, libero Lexi Leonhard 29 digs and setter Frank chipped in 11 digs to go with 48 assists.

Danielle Siefker and Beth Greulich each had 19 kills for Cleveland State (16-8, 6-6 Horizon).

WSU, now 14-13 overall and 8-3 in the Horizon League, concludes the Northeast Ohio swing Saturday afternoon at 5:00 at Youngstown State.