Through the first 17 matches of the season Kirsten Bernthal Booth’s club has been searching for proof that they can show some resolve in a match and taste victory in the end. Going into Friday, her 17th-ranked Bluejays were 0-5 when dropping the first set — only forcing a fifth set in one of those matches — but they finally got that monkey off their back in erasing an 0-2 deficit to beat the Butler Bulldogs 19-25, 24-26, 25-21, 25-23, 15-9 in five sets in front of a crowd of 1,605 at D.J. Sokol Arena.
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