The two teams that had won the past six Baltimore County volleyball championships met at Dulaney High Thursday night and Towson emerged with a 25-11, 25-23, 25-21 victory for its fourth consecutive county crown.
The Generals (14-1) have now won 13 straight matches since a loss to top-ranked Arundel in their second game of the season.
Dulaney, (13-2), winners of county titles from 2005 through 2007, had a 13-match winning streak snapped the day before in a 5-game loss to Severna Park.
Towson seniors Ally Teuten (28 assists, 3 kills), Lauren Bosse (7 kills, 3 blocks, 2 assists), Kelly Lacy (10 kills) and Hannah Wohltmann (2 aces, 3 kills, 3 blocks) celebrated their fourth straight county title.
Senior Emily Lansinger (5 kills), junior Hanna Glazer and sophomore defensive specialist Georgie Teuten also contributed to the winning effort.
Dulaney was led by the hitting of junior outside hitter Jessica Starr (10 kills) and freshman middle hitter Milan Amos (6 kills) and defense and setting of seniors Taylor Roberts and Bridget McManus.
Towson pulled away in the first set after Bosse and Wohltmann teamed up for back-to-back blocks on Starr, while Glazer served eight straight points.
"When they know it's going to go outside, they are going to put up a good block," Dulaney coach Cary Lyon said.
For Dulaney's first point of the second set, it was Starr who got a big block on Wohltmann and the Lions fed off that energy.
The game featured 10 ties with the last one coming at 19-19.
Bosse's ace and Lacy's kill followed a Dulaney error and the Generals pulled ahead, 22-19, before Amos' kill stemmed the tide.
Glazer answered with a two-handed tip, making it 23-20, before Starr's kill brought the Lions within two.
An ace by Amos made it 23-22, but Glazer's block upped the Generals' lead to 24-22.
Roberts pulled Dulaney within one again with a cap at the net, before Wohltmann ended the set with a perfectly-placed tip.
"I went up and I tried to fake hit it, so they would all be on their toes and I just tipped it right over," Wohltmann said. "It felt so good to get that last point."
Towson pulled out to a 15-10 lead in the final set before the Lions made a charge, but Wohltmann seized the momentum with two excellent digs that led to kills from Lansinger and Bosse.
Trailing 22-14, Dulaney rallied behind a pair of kills, block and ace from Amos, but they couldn't get over the hump.
Towson coach Emily Berman was especially proud of the four four-time county champions.
"It's really, really great," she said. "I think they have grown so much since the first one and they don't know what it's like to lose in the county, but they know what it's like to lose at a higher level, so they savor the wins."
Towson won the Class 3A state championship last year after losing to River Hill in the state semifinals the previous year.
"This is so important going into the postseason," Berman said.