Box Score CALDWELL, Idaho – With a shot at an outright Cascade Collegiate Conference championship and the right to host the CCC Tournament on the line, No. 15 College of Idaho overcame deficits in both the fourth and fifth sets to defeat Southern Oregon 3-2 (20-25, 25-13, 18-25, 25-23, 15-13) Friday night at J.A. Albertson Center.

Southern Oregon falls to 18-9 overall and 14-3 in conference play, while College of Idaho improves to 18-6 overall and 15-2 in the CCC. The Raiders still have a shot at a share of the conference title, but they will need help to accomplish the feat. Southern Oregon closes out the 2012 regular season Saturday at 7 p.m. against Eastern Oregon, and the Raiders would need a win against the Mountaineers and an Oregon Tech win over C of I to earn the championship split.

Natalie Scheller (Bend, Ore./Bend) led SOU with 22 kills, while Haley Kasler (Grants Pass, Ore./Hidden Valley) added 15 in the loss. Renee Yomtob (Boise, Idaho/Centennial) finished with 21 digs and Caryn Westrick (Bonney Lake, Wash./Bonney Lake) added 30 assists. Jessica Peacock's 17 kills led a group of four Coyotes with double figures, and Sierra Porter finished with a match-high 57 assists.

The match was won in streaks, as SOU hit over .320 as a team in the first, third and fifth sets, while hitting less than .100 in the second and fourth. Southern Oregon overcame an early 3-0 deficit to win the opener in a set that featured eight tie scores and five lead changes. College of Idaho held a two-point lead at 14-12 before SOU scored the next four points and closed the set on a 13-6 run.

College of Idaho bounced back with a dominant second set, scoring the first three points and claiming 19 of the first 26 in a 25-13 victory. The Raiders moved one set away from the upset victory when they used a 14-9 set-closing run to pull away from the Yotes in a 25-18 third-set victory.

It looked like the Raiders might put an exclamation mark on a big match victory when SOU scored the first seven points of the fourth set. College of Idaho scored six of the next eight, but a four-point SOU streak reclaimed a seven-point lead at 13-6. The Raiders held a six-point lead at 16-10 before College of Idaho stormed ahead with a 10-2 run that gave the Yotes their first advantage of the set.

A kill by Scheller sparked a four-point SOU run that put the Raiders back up by two, and a Nikki Keller (Carson City, Nev./Carson) kill put SOU two points away from the victory at 23-21. But four consecutive SOU attack errors gave the set away and forced a deciding fifth set.

The Raiders controlled the fifth set midway through, scoring three straight points to take an 8-5 lead on a block by Scheller and Keller. Southern Oregon held its three-point advantage at 9-6, but College of Idaho scored four of the next five points to tie it up at 10-10 on a service ace. SOU's final lead came on a kill by Kasler, putting the Raiders up 12-11 before C of I scored the next two points on back-to-back kills. Scheller tied it up at 13-apiece with her 22nd kill of the night, but Peacock and Kylee Nawahine clinched the comeback victory with consecutive kills.