Volleyball Pipers split in opening day of MIAC-IIAC Border Battle

The IIAC schools started quickly, winning the first two matches on the court. Cornell defeated Hamline 3-2, while Wartburg swept Macalester College 3-0. 

The next two matches of the day went to MIAC schools, as the College of St. Benedict took all three games against the University of Dubuque, and Bethel University defeated Loras College, 3-1.

In the 6:00 p.m. matches, the Pipers defeated the IIAC’s Wartburg Knights 3-0, while Cornell evened the day’s conference tally with a 3-0 win over MIAC opponent Macalester.

Both of the final matches of the evening, St. Benedict versus Loras and Bethel versus Dubuque, went to final fifth game. St Benedict returned from a 2-0 deficit to force the game five, but the IIAC’s Loras proved to be too much in the end. MIAC school Bethel outlasted Dubuque.

The Border Battle resumes on Saturday, October 6, at 9:00 a.m. in Hutton Arena at Hamline University.

Hamline University belongs to the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, one of the most competitive conferences in the nation. Hamline supports 19 intercollegiate athletic teams for men and women. Find out more about Hamline athletics at www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics.

Creative and innovative teaching and learning attract a diverse student body of nearly 4,600 undergraduate and graduate students to Hamline University. Challenged to create and apply knowledge in local and global contexts, Hamline students develop an individual and community ethic of social justice, civic responsibility, and inclusive leadership and service.

Ranked first in Minnesota among comprehensive master’s universities by U.S.News & World Report, Hamline is also Minnesota’s first university, founded in 1854, and among the first co-educational institutions in the nation.