For the second time this season the Berry volleyball team was forced into a five set game. 

            And for the second time, the Vikings won when No. 15-ranked Berry beat Oglethorpe 3-2 in a nail-biting Southern Athletic Association showdown Wednesday night at the Cage. 

            The Vikings easily took the first set 25-12, showing off their strong serving skills with a total of five aces. 

            The rest of the night, however, would turn out to be not as easy and the matchup became a back-and-forth battle with the score being tied up a total of 15 times, with the Petrels eventually coming out on top to edge the Vikings 26-24. 

            The third set started to drum up some anxiety until the last six points of the set, where Berry gained all the momentum and took a 25-18 victory. 

            The fourth set was no different than the previous two, but the Vikings failed to seal the deal as Oglethorpe emerged to tie the game up at two sets apiece with a 25-23 decision. 

            In the fifth and final set of the night, however, Berry took command early only to see Oglethorpe storm back to tie it up once again. The Vikings, however, regrouped and when Emily Rapach set up Jazzy Innis for the winning kill, Berry emerged with the 17-15 fifth-set win that sealed the victory.

            Molly Bergin and Innis both had 19 kills each for the night for Berry, Rapach had 51 assists and Laura Beier had 37 digs. 

            The Vikings will now turn their attention to a pair of SAA road games this weekend when they play Millsaps in Jackson, Miss., on Friday night, then head to Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday for a showdown against the only team that has dealt Berry its lone conference loss,