Box Score Maicee Sorensen led a balanced offensive effort, as the Marauder women's volleyball team outlasted the Waterloo Warriors over five sets on Friday night.

The rookie middle had a team-high 14 points, converting 11 of 17 hitting attempts against just one error (58.8 per cent) and adding a total of three blocks. But several hitters contributed well to the narrow victory. Mira Krunic finished just a half point shy of Sorensen's total with 11 kills on 30 attempts two aces and a block assist, while Sophie Bukovec also broke into double digits with 10.5 points.

The win was the Marauders (9-5) fourth straight, and moved them to within four points of the OUA West-leading Guelph Gryphons with a match in hand.

McMaster opened with a comfortable first set, in which the visitors hit for 31 per cent and outpaced the Warriors by nine points. But Waterloo struck back immediately, stifling McMaster's offence and clinching the second set by a dominant 25-15 margin. The teams settled in for a prolonged battle in the third, which the host Warriors edged by two points to put the Marauders on the ropes.

But McMaster dug in facing elimination in the fourth set, and polished off a 25-19 frame to level the match and send it to an abbreviated fifth. There, the Marauders held their nerve to grab the lead, before Joanna Jedrzejewska notched the match-ending kill for 15-10.

McMaster returns home on Sunday to meet the division-leading Gryphons at the Burridge Gym. That match is slated to get underway at 1:00 p.m.