BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Freshmen Olivia Utterback and Amara Aimufua each posted 15 kills, while junior Josephine Ough finished with 14 kills and hit .542 on the night, helping the UC Davis women's volleyball team rally from two sets down to defeat host CSU Bakersfield, 12-25, 14-25, 28-26, 25-22, 15-13, on Saturday night at the Icardo Center.

The win moved the Aggies to 11-16 overall and 7-9 in Big West Conference play, avenging an earlier sweep at the hands of the Roadrunners back on Oct. 7. CSU Bakersfield, led by 13 kills apiece from Brooke Boiseau and Hayley McCluskey, fell to 16-8 overall and 9-7 in league play.

Utterback, who finished with a career-high 17 kills in a four-set battle with Cal Poly a night earlier, hit .367 on the night, adding a pair of aces, six blocks, and six digs, for 20 points. Aimufua added five digs and finished with 17 points, while Ough added 16.5 points.

Bakersfield won the first two sets rather convincingly, but the Aggies turned the tide with an extended third set, staving off match point and scoring the final three points of the set on a kill by Utterback and a pair of blocks at the net for the 28-26 victory.

A back-and-forth fourth set again came down to the end, breaking a 22-all tie with three-straight kills by Aimufua for the 25-22 win, then jumped out to a three-point lead in the decisive fifth before the Roadrunners rallied, tying the match back up at 12-all. Kills by Demari Webb and Utterback put UC Davis on the verge of victory as Ough answered a Bakersfield kill with one of her own to end the match.

The Aggies remain on the road with a pair next weekend, traveling to UC Santa Barbara on Friday (Nov. 19) and CSUN on Saturday (Nov. 20).
 

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