Volleyball Snaps Slide With Straight-Set Sweep of Southern Maine

LEWISTON, Maine — Bates College women’s volleyball returned to the win column in style Tuesday night in Alumni Gym as the Bobcats swept the University of Southern Maine, 3-0, in non-conference action. The Bobcats put a five-match slide behind them with the triumph, sending off the Huskies by scores of 26-24, 25-21, and 25-12. Bates erased deficits of six and five points, respectively, in the first and second sets to take a 2-0 lead in the contest. Bates opened the third-and-final stanza with a 5-0 lead and never looked back as the Bobcats went ahead by as much as 12…