TIFFIN, Ohio - The Dragons raced out to a 16-point first set win and never looked back as Tiffin (14-14, 10-8) won in four sets over Lake Erie (4-25, 1-17 GLIAC) 25-9, 25-19, 21-25, 25-21 Friday night at the Gillmor Center.

With the win, Tiffin is in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament for the first time in school history. If Tiffin (10-8) beats Ashland (10-8) tomorrow (Nov. 6), it will be the sixth seed.

For the match, Tiffin outhit Lake Erie .244-.089, including .283-(negative).103 to race to a two set lead. Individually, Danielle McQuade hit .345 in the match with 15 kills while also adding eight digs. Brittany Teaford tallied nine kills and no errors on 16 attempts lead the team with a .562 hitting percentage. Jessica Adams had 41 assists, nine digs and four kills and no errors on nine attempts.

For Lake Erie, Lauren Bogatay recorded a double-double with 16 assists and 11 digs. Molly Richardson had 10 kills while Mary Walter came off the bench for eight kills and six big service aces.

Tiffin controlled the first set from the start with four-straight points from McQuade. With Lake Erie on serve to begin the match, McQuade recorded a kill and added a spike on her own serve to put Tiffin up 2-0. In a foreshadow of the night, McQuade tallied a pair of aces to put the Dragons up four. Lake Erie cut the deficit to two, 9-7, on a service ace by Stephanie Minatos, but an error on the next serve ignited a 16-2 run to end the set. First, it was Brooke Bernabei on serve who put Tiffin up 16-7 thanks to a Teaford kill and five errors by the Storm. Walter stopped the bleeding with a kill, but up stepped Teaford with a big six-point run, including two aces, a pair of Margaret Betz kills and two errors on Lake Erie that brought Tiffin's lead to 23-8. Both teams traded sideouts with Giavanna DiPietro ending the first set with a kill.

In the second, both teams traded the first 16 points before Tiffin took a 24-15 lead. However, the storm never backed down and Walter's power serve brought Lake Erie back. Walter got an ace and helped force two Tiffin attack errors, but a McQuade kill ended the set at 25-19 and put Tiffin up 2-0.

Tiffin jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the thir, but Lake Erie tied the set at 18 and all but closed out the frame on Walter's powerful jump serve. An attack error put Lake Erie ahead by one, but an unheard of four-straight service errors put the visitors up 23-18. Tiffin could not do more than sideout the rest of the set as Lake Erie won 25-21.

The last set was close throughout, but with the scored tied at 16, a service run by Teaford created space for TU. After a McQuade kill put Tiffin up for good, Teaford stepped to the service area and got a pair of kills from Betz and McQuade around a Walter attack error to put Tiffin up 20-16. But after a sideout, the ever-dangerous Walter stepped up to serve and brought Lake Erie within two with an ace and a Storm assisted block. However, the Dragons countered with a McQuade kill, an Adams ace and a Lake Erie error gave Tiffin a 23-19. Both teams traded sideouts the next four points as Tiffin won the finale by four.