Near the end of game two Tuesday night the ISU volleyball team needed a run in a big way against the Creighton Bluejays.

The Cyclones (3-1), trailing 21-18, got that run, scoring the last seven points of the game to knot the match and ended up with a 3-1 win (22-25, 25-21, 25-15, 25-16) on the road in front of a crowd of 886 at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Neb. Senior middle blocker Jen Malcom had two kills and combined for a block during that run, and libero Ashley Mass added an ace, while serving out the set after a Mary Bisenius kill.

Those two kills were part of a night during which Malcom saw the most efficient hitting in school history, with 15 kills and no errors on 19 attacks to hit .789.

Coach Christy Johnson said Malcom, whose hitting percentage is .603 with 51 kills through four matches, is so quick that she is able to beat the opposing block despite other teams assigning players trying to stop her.

“I can’t say enough good things about her. She has really come into her own this year,” Johnson said. “She is so fast that even if you commit it is hard to block her.”

Setter Kaylee Manns said Malcom took over near the end of sets and put games away.

“Teams are double blocking her when I get the ball,” Manns said. “It’s great to know, as a setter, that even though she is being double blocked she is still putting the ball away.”

Victoria Henson led Iowa State with 16 kills, and Manns continued her season-long double-double streak with 42 assists and 14 digs. Mass had her 30th straight match with double-digit digs with 17.

The win for the Cyclones was the 600th in school history, and Johnson picked up her 59th victory in her 100th match.

The Cyclones continued their momentum from the second game, jumping out to a 6-1 lead in set three, but Creighton (1-3) fought back to tie it at nine. Malcom and Henson took over again, though, with three kills each in leading the Cyclones to a 16-6 run and dominating 25-15 victory.

Set four nearly mirrored set three, as it was tied at 9-9 before the Cyclones went on a 16-7 run to end the match with a 25-16 win. Malcom had three more kills during that set, along with one of three more Cyclone service aces.

“We knew that we could pick it up another notch,” Malcom said. “We passed really well, so it was easy to get a split block; and Kaylee set the ball awesome, so it was a team effort to get things done.”

In set number one the Cyclones struggled both offensively and defensively, but were able to keep the match tight thanks to five Creighton service errors. The Bluejays outblocked the traditionally stout defense of Iowa State 7-0, while outhitting it .333-.105.

The hitting percentages, however, turned around drastically after that, as the Cyclones finished the game outhitting the Bluejays .234-.142, despite being outblocked 12-8.

Johnson described the way Iowa State was able to serve tough and take Creighton out of its system to have them hit a negative percentage over the last two games.

“Maybe we don’t have a lot of aces, but we put on so much pressure because teams are having to chase the ball 15 feet off the net,” Johnson said. “When you do that, teams never get in rhythm and never really get anything going.”

The serve Johnson mentioned was where the Cyclones really had an edge, as they had five aces to Creighton’s four and had only four errors to Creighton’s 14.