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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team swept Southwest Baptist, 3-0, on Friday evening in Bearcat Arena.
- The win moved Northwest to 8-3 on the year and 1-0 in the MIAA. SBU drops to 2-9 overall and 0-1 in conference action.
- Northwest held SBU to just eight third-set points. It is the second time this year Northwest has held an opponent in single digits. It was last accomplished against Henderson State in St. Joseph on Sept. 19.
- Northwest hit .408 as a team and had held SBU to a -.054 attack percentage.

Key Northwest Statistics
- Maddy Bruder had a match-high nine kills, hitting .438 with nine digs, three blocks and three assists.
- Miranda Foster and Jackie Becker each had six kills. Foster had five digs and two blocks. Becker hit .750 for the match with four blocks.
- Sarah Dannettell had 27 assists, five kills, four digs and a block.
- Aarika Wittenburg had a match-high 10 digs with an assist.
- Alexis Williams had three block assists and hit .556 for the match with five kills.
- Shelby Duren had eight digs with a pair of blocks, two assists and two kills.
- Northwest's best set came in the third, hitting .500 with 11 kills against just one error.
- The only SBU lead of the entire match came early in the first set, 2-1.
- The last time Northwest began a season 8-3 was back in 2000. That team ended up going 17-15 overall.

Key Northwest Sequence
- Northwest took very little time putting away SBU in the first. After falling behind in the first set, 2-1, Northwest went on a 12-3 run to take a 13-5 lead. Williams and Duren started the run with a block and followed it with a kill from Foster. After an SBU error, Foster picked up another kill off a feed from Bruder. After dropping a point, Becker recorded a kill to make it 6-3. After another SBU point, Northwest got kills from Bruder and Foster along with a bad SBU set to take a 9-4 lead. SBU got another point after a timeout, making it 9-5. After a block from Bruder and Becker, Williams recorded a kill and SBU was forced into a setting error. Williams and Bruder capped off the run with a block to make it 13-5.

Up Next
- The Bearcats will host Missouri Southern on Saturday night at 6 p.m. in an MIAA contest. Admission to the match is free, following the Family Day weekend football game at 2:30 p.m.