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After dropping their opening match to Northwestern-Roseville at this weekend's Macalester Invitational at the Leonard Center, the Scots came back to topple Wisconsin-Superior 3-1 in the evening match. Macalester plays matches tomorrow with Buena Vista (Ia.) at 12 noon and Grinnell (Ia.) at 2 p.m.

Winning scores in the hard-fought decision against UW-Superior were 25-21, 25-20, 23-25 and 25-22. Macalester attacked at a .292 clip and had nine blocks.

Taylor Tinkham (Sr., St. Louis Park, Minn.) hammered down 22 kills and hit .383, and Laura Avena (So., Cesis, Latvia / Riga Gimnasium #1)) added 14 kills on a .275 hitting percentage. Each was also in on five blocks. Danielle Dweck (Sr., Sea Cliff, N.Y. / North Shore) handed out 43 assists, one short of a season-best, and also contributed 15 digs.

Bailey Rehnberg (So., York, Pa. / Suburban) led back row play with 24 digs and Glasha Marcon (Jr., Richmond, Calif. / Albany) added 19 to go along with seven kills. Rehnberg also served three aces.

The Scots were swept quickly by Northwestern. Rehnberg had 17 digs and Marcon finished with eight kills and 12 digs.