The Hendrickson Hawks won an error-marred match with Anderson to earn a clean sweep Tuesday night.

The Hawks (3-6) dominated the first game, winning 25-11 before hanging on for victories in the next two 25-22 and 25-20.

“We started strong,” Hendrickson coach Nicole Parks said. “We were playing our game. We started making some of the mistake they were making, but we came back together and finished.”

After falling behind 3-1 the Hawks seized complete control of the first game. A Trojan error, of which there were many, gave Hendrickson a point and a side out with the score 3-2. The Hawks proceeded to reel off nine unanswered points on their way to a 16-1 run. Lauren Muska and Zoey Hanrahan benefited from the passes of Maranda Vasquez (seven assists) to tally kills and Hanrahan added two stuff blocks during the rally. Hendrickson also took advantage of nine Anderson errors, resulting in an 18-4 lead. The Trojans finished the first game with 14 errors, committing their final one on game point to give the Hawks the win.

Hendrickson lost all its momentum in the second game and traded leads with the Trojans for much of the game before Anderson pulled away to take a 20-15 lead. Jennifer Harrell scored on a stuff block for the Hawks to spark a Hendrickson run which was fueled by an ace from Brittany Gray and a kill by Hanrahan. Still, the Trojans held tough and led 21-19. A kill by Blaine Koester cut the lead to 21-20 and proved to be Anderson’s undoing. Four straight Trojan errors gave the Hawks a 24-21 lead and after a Hendrickson error briefly stopped the inevitable, Koester drove home the game-winning kill for the Hawks.

“It’s hard to keep that momentum going,” Parks said of the second game. “We had a lot of errors in the second game, but I kept telling them to play their game.”

Two stuff blocks by Koester (five kills) and a kill from Lindsay Dekeratry put the Hawks up 12-9 in the third game, but Anderson battled back eventually taking a 14-12 lead. Koester stopped the rally with a kill but Anderson took two more leads at 15-14 and 17-16 before Hendrickson could lock up the win. Gray (five kills) started a 6-3 Hawk run that saw them take a 21-19 lead. Anderson scored one more point before their erratic play got the best of them. Two errors gave the Hawks two more points and put them on the victory’s doorstep. Vasquez fed Gray for a kill to crack that door, pushing the lead to 24-20, then kicked it in with a fake set that found the floor on the Trojan side for the final point of the match.

“We’re coming together,” Parks concluded. “We’ve gotten a lot better in just a week’s time.”