#19 Marquette Prevails Over #25 Illinois In Five Sets

Jenna Reitsma led Marquette’s offense against Illinois on Saturday night.A bad start and an awful middle are part of the story, but the rest of it was pretty good at the McGuire Center on Saturday night as YOUR #19 ranked Marquette figured out a way to beat #25 Illinois 3-2. Your set scores in the match: 23-25, 25-20, 13-25, 25-19, and 15-11.

The thing to remember about this match is that Illinois lost in five sets to Illinois State at the McGuire Center in a match that started at 10 am Central time, and this one started at 6pm. Between postgame wrap up and then warmups for this one, the Illini were probably lucky if they had two actual hours of rest in between the two matches. With that in…