Miles remained perfect at home by winning a five-set thriller over Stillman (23-25, 27-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-13) Tuesday night at Knox-Windham Gymnasium. The Lady Bears (9-8) are now 4-0 at home and have won three straight matches while earning a season sweep of the Tigers (2-11).

Stillman took big leads in three of the first four sets. But after dropping the opening set, the Lady Bears were able to battle past two set points to even the match, then erased an 8-1 deficit to start the third set to take a 2-1 lead. But the Tigers opened an 11-1 lead in the fourth set that Miles was unable to overcome to force a fifth-set tiebreaker.

In the final set, Miles fell behind 7-5 before Jaida Lloyd's ace was sandwiched by two kills by Kayla Trawick to put the Lady Bears ahead 8-7 as the teams switched sides. A kill by Kiersten Hight (eight kills, seven blocks) pushed the Miles advantage to 13-10 and it looked like the Lady Bears were set to finish the Tigers. But Ava Cameronhad two kills sandwiched around a Katelyn Lawson ace and the teams were knotted again.

But Hight and Kori Brown (nine kills) got a big block to set up match point before Karea Copeland (26-7-60, .317) finished her fantastic night with a kill to close out Stillman. The Lady Bears also received terrific efforts from Trawick (season-high 18 kills, 12 digs, eight aces, three blocks), Lloyd (35 assists, six digs), Eliyah McIlwain (team-high 17 digs), Saraih Taylor (24 assist), and Zion Rucker (six kills, .313).

Miles is back in action this weekend when it participates in the SIAC East/West Crossover at LeMoyne-Owen.