DENVER, Colo. – The eighth-ranked Regis University volleyball team (24-3, 17-1 RMAC) captured the outright Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) regular season championship on Friday evening, beating the Colorado Christian University Cougars (10-16, 6-12 RMAC) in straight sets.
 
How It Happened: The Cougars came out looking to upend top-ranked Regis, opening the match on a 10-4 run. Trailing by six points, the Rangers knew they had put themselves in a big hole, and quickly started gaining their momentum back. Four-straight points from the home side put RU back in the match, but it did not come easy. It was not until three-straight points at, trailing 18-16, that Regis managed to take the lead back 19-18. However, with the score tied once again, at 21-all, that a kill by redshirt-senior Kristen Hornung sparked the team. The final three points of the match were eerily similar in that Hornung and senior Izzy Gosar combined for blocks on the same CCU attacker to end the set, 25-21.
 
Once again in the second set, the Cougars challenged RU to another ferocious set. CCU held a 20-16 advantage late in the set, but another huge run from Regis pushed them into a lead 21-20 before the Cougars scored another point. The home side scored four of the five final points to take the set 25-22 along with a 2-0 set lead.
 
With 37 sets now in the bag, the Rangers were dead set on getting number 38. Though it was a back-and-forth set again, RU put together a 6-0 run in the middle of the set to jump out to a 17-10 lead. From that point on, Regis had found their groove and the momentum carried them through to a 25-18 third-set win, and their 15^th match win in a row.
 
Game Notes: Junior Caitlyn Burroway was the kills leader with 12 on the night, hitting .320 and tallying her eighth double-double of the season with 11 digs in the match, adding two blocks as well. Hornung had 10 kills and posted a .500 attack percentage with only one error in 18 attempts. Hornung had match-high nine blocks at the net, out blocking the entire CCU team 9-6.  Gosar had five blocks in the march while senior Silvia Basso accounted for 29 of the team's 37 assists. Basso also had two kills, five digs and a block.
 
Up Next for the Rangers: The No. 8 ranked Regis University volleyball team has captured the No. 1 seed in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Volleyball Tournament bracket and will host their opening round matchup on Tuesday, November 19^th. After all other matches from tonight have concluded, we will find out who the Rangers play in the first-round.
 
If RU wins their first-round match, Regis will serve as the host site for the remainder of the RMAC Tournament as the highest remaining seed. The semifinal and championship rounds will be played on Friday, November 22^nd and Saturday, November 23^rd.