BOCA RATON, Fla. -- These Buccaneers have found themselves now. Barry University's volleyball team won its third straight match, beating Lynn, 25-16, 22-25, 26-24, 25-22, Tuesday night at the de Hoernle Center.

Now the Bucs (5-3, 3-1 Sunshine State Conference) will ride the coattails of the three straight conference wins into Thursday's match at defending national champion and No. 2 Tampa Thursday at 7 p.m. Thursday's match can be seen HERE.

"It was another well-fought match," Barry coach Steve Hendricks said. "It was great to get a win on the road at Lynn."

Barry hit a season-high .286, putting away 59 balls in 161 attacks. The Fighting Knights (5-6, 0-4) were held to under .183 hitting percentages in three of the four sets. Bucs senior setter Jasmine Serna had 30 assists, 14 digs and three blocks. Jenny Trinidad added 18 assists, two aces and eight digs in a match where ball distribution may have been at its best all year.

"Jas and Jenny did a great job distributing the ball, and that shows in our hitting percentage," Hendricks said. 

Ivana Didanovic, earlier this week named the SSC's Defensive Player of the Week and the AVSR Global National Player of the Week, had a career-high 19 kills, hitting .500 with only two errors while serving two of Barry's seven aces. Three other Bucs had double-digit kills, including Eva Raat's 15 on .324 hitting. Kaitlin Drake had 11 kills, and Katie Dooley 10 to go along with her four blocks.

Barry won a wild third set, overcoming a 10-5 deficit behind a 5-0 run that culminated in a kill by Didanovic. Drake's kill moved the Buccaneers in front 19-17, but the Fighting Knights rallied back to take a 21-20 lead on a Barry ballhandling error. Tied at 23, Raat slammed down a kill to move Barry within set point. But a Bucs service error allowed Lynn breathing room again. Yet the Buccaneers capitalized on two Fighting Knights attacking errors to take a 2-1 lead in the match.

Lynn jumped ahead 13-11 in the fourth set on a Lydia West kill, and the Fighting Knights extended their lead to 17-14 on a kill by Cleuza Porto. But Barry used three kills by Raat in a 4-0 run to take an 18-17 lead. Porzo's kill and a Bucs ballhandling error put Lynn ahead 22-20. But a kill by Drake, two Fighting Knights errors, another kill by Drake and Kat Espinosa's match-punctuating putaway sealed the deal.

Barry had 16 kills in both the second and third sets, and 17 in the fourth. Lynn had 12 in the first and 12 in the fourth. The Buccaneers outblocked the Fighting Knights, 9-6. Lynn had 79 digs to Barry's 67.

The win was the Buccaneers' first on the road this season, and their second in four-set matches.