Worcester, Mass. --- Courtney Pharr (Seattle, Wash.) and Shannon Glass-Smythe (Albuquerque, N.M.) each tallied nine kills and combined to hit .531 as Clark traveled down Park Ave to claim a 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-15) victory over host WPI in a NEWMAC women's volleyball matchup at Harrington Auditorium on Tuesday night.

With the win, the Cougars (9-13, 3-6 NEWMAC) avenged a 3-1 loss to the Engineers in last month's Worcester City Tournament title match while the Crimson and Gray slipped to 10-19 overall and 1-8 in league play.

More importantly, coupled with Emerson's loss at MIT, the Scarlet and White remain alive for the seventh and final postseason berth in the upcoming conference tournament that begins on Tuesday, October 4.

Glass-Smythe and Marina Ramos (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) each recorded a dozen digs and Savannah Sanford (San Anselmo, Calif.) added 11. Tori Whitney (Sunderland, Mass.) doled out a match-best 36 helpers for Clark as Ramos finished with eight kills and Glass-Smythe served up four aces.

WPI was led by Cassandra Tomerlin (La Quinta, Calif.) with 10 digs and six kills. Kelly Rathje (Scituate, Mass.) logged a match-best 15 digs and Caroline Meyer (Easton, Mass.) handed out 17 assists. Melissa Daigle (Norfolk, Mass.) and Kenzie Whalen (Hollis, N.H.) chipped in with a quartet of kills.

The first set saw a pair of ties and one lead change early, including a 4-3 Engineer advantage following a kill by Katie Hurlock (Burlington, Conn.). Clark then went on a 7-2 run to force a WPI timeout. Later in the frame, Tomerlin sparked a 5-0 Engineer outburst with a kill. The Boynton Hillers staved off a pair of set points courtesy of a kill by Meyer and a Clark attack error. The guests took the set following an Engineer miscue.

Clark raced out to a 4-0 lead in the second set and never looked back. Pharr smashed six of her nine kills and Glass-Smythe served a pair of aces as the team combined to hit .467 in the stanza.

WPI claimed its second lead of the night after Daigle recorded a kill early in the third. An ace by Rathje gave the Engineers its largest lead of the night. Clark evened it up at 3-3 during an 8-0 spurt en route to the straight set victory.

The Engineers host Simmons on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Clark closes out the regular season with a home tri-match on Saturday beginning with a winner-take-all showdown with the Lions beginning at 11:00.