Dixie State volleyball won its third-straight match, but it was not easy, as the Trailblazers rallied to escape with a five-set victory at Colorado State-Pueblo Friday night inside Massari Arena. With the victory, DSU (17-4/12-2 RMAC) clinched its first-ever RMAC postseason tournament berth and remained within one game of the conference lead with four regular season matches remaining.

After dropping a hard-fought opening set, 25-23, the Trailblazers opened the second set with a 6-1 run and never looked back to even match at 1-1 with a 25-20 set two win. DSU kept the momentum into the third stanza as the Blazers built a 15-11 lead, but the ThunderWolves (4-19/2-12 RMAC) rallied with a 14-6 run to post a 25-19 win and a 2-1 advantage in the match.

Dixie State would again square the match with a 25-22 triumph in set four to force a decisive fifth set, which saw CSU-Pueblo bolt out to a commanding 11-7 lead. However the Trailblazer defense stepped up to force six ThunderWolves' attack errors as part of a 7-0 run to vault to a 14-11 lead. CSU-Pueblo scored the next point to pull to within two, but DSU closed out the comeback win with a Lauren Gammell (Spanish Fork, Utah/Spanish Fork HS) kill that ended the upset bid.

Senior Hannah Doonan (San Dimas, Calif./San Dimas HS) paced the Trailblazers with a career-high 18 kills and 15 digs to record her fifth double-double of the season. Fellow senior Malary Marshall (Hurricane, Utah/Hurricane HS) also had a solid night as she hit .565 on her way to a career-high tying 13 kills with a co-team high four block assists. Sophomore Megan Treanor (Salem, Utah/Salem Hills HS) collected her team-leading eighth double-double with 21 assists and 12 digs, and Gammell finished with four kills and four total blocks.

The Trailblazers hit .171 for the match, though they did manage to post a .368 attack percentage in the decisive fifth set. The DSU defense held the Thunderwolves to a .147 clip and forced 30 attack errors, while senior Sid Brandon (Bountiful, Utah/Bountiful HS) tallied 24 of DSU's 85 total digs, and Dixie State finished with 9.0 team blocks.

Dixie State wraps up its 2018 regular season road slate Saturday night at New Mexico Highlands.