One match, three records.
Ball State University's women's volleyball player Sarah Obras set Ball State's career kills mark, the Mid-American Conference's career attempts mark and became the first player in MAC history to record 1,500 kills and digs in a career.
Sarah Obras surpassed Megan Hammons' career kills mark of 1,827 in the second game of Ball State's 3-1 win over Eastern Michigan on Saturday. Obras set the record mark with a kill that barely went past an Eastern Michigan block to give Ball State a 28-18 edge in the second set.
Obras, a senior, entered the match ten shy of Hammons' mark set in 2002. Obras recorded 18 kills in the match, including 10 in game two alone, and finished with her 10th double-double of the season.
"It's just a record," Obras said. "I would celebrate this win a lot more than my record."
Obras also finished with 11 digs, a pair of solo blocks, a service ace and one assist.
The next closest person in the BSU record book is Lindsay Follin with 1,495. Of the current group of Cardinals, only senior Rachel Refenes has over 1,000 career kills.
Obras is currently 72 kills shy of the MAC record held by Northern Illinois' Tera Lobdell.
Lobdell also held the attempts record the Obras broke.
"I thought [it] was her best overall performance of the year," coach Randy Litchfield said.
Obras has been on a steady pace to break the kills record since her freshman year. In 2002, she was named MAC Freshman of the Year after setting the Ball State record for most kills by a freshman (498). Obras again broke records her sophomore year when she set the Ball State kill record for most in a season (695).
Obras became the first player in MAC history to record 1,500 kills by the end of her junior year and finished the season with 423 kills.
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