HAYWARD, Calif. — It was a match that left several individual records teetering on the brink of extinction, but in the end, the Cal State Monterey Bay volleyball team dropped a heartbreaker in five to Cal State East Bay, 26–24, 21–25, 28–26, 24–26, 15–10 Friday night in Pioneer Gym.

CSUMB got 33 digs from senior libero Rachel Cookus (Thousand Oaks HS), just three off the Otter single match record. The mammoth effort also put Cookus just 34 digs shy of the CSUMB season record of 518 set by Katie Bos in 2006. It's a record she almost certainly will break in her next two matches.

On the offensive end, senior Jessica Malcolm (Lodi HS) collected a match–high 23 kills to pull to within 38 kills of Rheann Fall's Otter career record of 1,454. Meanwhile, at the net, Victoria Clardy (Westminster/Marina HS) led the Otters with six blocks and is now just six blocks away from breaking the Otter career blocks record of 295 held by Christine Ricketts.

As to the match itself, despite three of the sets going deuce, neither team lost a set in which it held a set point. For as tight as the rest of the match was, the deciding set was a bit anticlimactic, with East Bay forging an early 8–4 lead before keeping the Otters at arm's length until the dénouement.

Jessica Malcolm, DJ Gresham-Ryder and Rachel Cookus played great games and kept us in a lot of plays," said Head Coach Moe Melhart "We didn't execute the way we needed to and struggled to slow down their outsides. East Bay brought their best—we did not."

CSUMB will play its final road match of the season Saturday when it heads across San Francisco Bay to take on San Francisco State. The Otters return home to close out the 2015 season with matches versus Dominguez Hills (Nov. 10) and Cal Poly Pomona (Nov. 14).