Vanguard topples Cal Baptist Lancers

Vanguard University avenged an early-season loss to the California

Baptist Lancers with a 24-30, 30-23, 30-26, 23-30, 15-13 victory in Golden State Athletic Conference women’s volleyball Tuesday night in

the winner’s gym.

In the deciding rally game, Vanguard came back from a 5-1 deficit

to tie it at 7 and traded leads until Livia Peace’s kill gave the

Lions a 14-13 edge. Vanguard claimed the win on the next serve.

Jennifer Geisbauer led the Lions with 16 kills and Jennifer

Johnson had a season-high 45 assists to help Vanguard improve to 3-9

in the GSAC, and 7-13 overall. Debby Baeder had 12 kills for VU. Keri

DeHaas and Kristin White picked up 26 and 24 digs for the Lions, who

have now won more games than all of the ’01 campaign.

California Baptist fell to 11-12, 4-7 in the GSAC.