SAN DIEGO, Calif. --- Biola Volleyball had two bad memories to erase on Wednesday night at Golden Gymnasium. The first, a disappointing 3-0 loss at Point Loma one year ago. The second, Saturday night's tough-pill-to-swallow upset at the hands of Concordia Irvine.\

Thanks to some consistent play, good breaks and a resilient and determined mindset both of those memories were flushed clean with a 3-1 (21-25; 25-23; 25-21; 25-20) win over Point Loma in the Eagles' fifth PacWest Conference contest.

"We won because we passed and defended well," said Head Coach Aaron Seltzer. "Those are the things we are very good at and we did them well tonight."

The Eagles got better and better as the night went on, utilizing great decision-making from its setters, strong defense at the net and by the defensive specialists and two particularly proficient hitting efforts to get a come-from-behind win against the surging Sea Lions.

"Coming off of the loss at home I think that we were all ready to move on and crush some balls," said junior right side hitter Bekah Roth. "Even though we lost the first set, we just continued to play our game. I'm super proud of the setters for moving the ball around so intelligently and giving us so many opportunities to hit with one blocker up."

Point Loma had won its last two outings and three of its first four PacWest contests, but a victory wasn't in the cards as they played shorthanded on Wednesday night. 

The home team got off to the right start, winning seven rallies in a row to stake a 14-8 lead in set one that would ultimately lead to a four-point win and 1-0 advantage in the game.

It was Biola, though, that rattled off a solid winning streak late in the second game and ultimately flip the whole match on its head. The Eagles five of six points late in the game to turn what was a 14-12 lead into a 19-13 advantage and its first real sense of confidence since its tough loss Saturday. The Sea Lions would get as close as within one (24-23) to make Biola sweat, but an Abby Brewster kill would lock up the second set and tie the match for BU.

After knotting the match up the Eagles sped out to an 11-1 lead in the third game and things began to get a bit tense on the home side. Biola won nine-consecutive rallies to open up that large lead. Sandwiched right in the middle of that run were back-to-back Roth and Abigail Copeland blocks that really galvanized the Eagles and seemed to punch PLNU right in the stomach. 

A Roth kill was also the final point in that long run. She'd end the evening with a team-high 13 kills on a great .345 percentage. It was a new season-high for Roth.

"The middles also did such a great job of blocking and hitting too and it helped us to be so successful everywhere else," said Roth. "I think we are really starting to play our game and I'm so excited for what the season holds."

After starting out so strong, the Eagles were able to cruise to the 25-21 win in game three to take its first 2-1 lead in a match since the 3-1 win over Holy Names two weeks ago.

The last point of that third game was given to the Eagles when the Point Loma Head Coach was issued an automatic yellow and red card for overly disputing a call by a line judge.

Seeing an opportunity to capitalize in one of the most difficult road environments in the conference, the Eagles came out and did what needed to be done to get the game four win and lock up the match.

Biola continued to dig everything and make things tough with their blockers in gritting its way to the 25-20 final set win. The freshmen middles were especially effective in the final game, with Copeland and Raegan Tjepkema each compiling four kills en route to the win. Copeland also had one of her eight blocks in that game.

"Our middles did really well defensively tonight," said Seltzer. "Abigail Copeland was so good defensively. Eight blocks is awesome."

Copeland's eight-block effort is her new career-best and ties Tjepkema's mark for most blocks in a single match this season. It's only the fifth time in the last two full seasons that any one Biola player has had as many as eight blocks in a match.

Sami Hover and Becca Branch were the other part of the equation defensively. Hover averaged six digs-per-set to end with 24 for the night and Branch added 17 of her own to help Biola hold PLNU to its fifth-lowest hitting percentage of the season (.148).

"Bekah Roth and Becca Branch did really well tonight, and I thought Sami was all over the court. She did very well for us," said Seltzer.

Tjepkema ended the match just behind Roth with 11 kills and was efficient as she's been all season, hitting .346. Sabrina Winslow added six kills and racked up a season-high six blocks to help the Eagles out-block the Sea Lions, 10-7.

The win pushes Biola back ahead of .500 at 7-6 overall. It also means they move to 4-1 in PacWest Conference play ahead of Saturday's Cornerstone Cup matchup with RV Azusa Pacific (10-2; 4-0 PacWest). The match begins at 3 p.m. in the Felix Event Center.