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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team swept Missouri Western, 3-0, on Tuesday evening at the MWSU Fieldhouse in St. Joseph, Mo.
- The No. 18 ranked Bearcats improve to 16-1 overall and 4-1 in MIAA play. The Griffons fall to 11-6 on the year and 3-2 in conference action.
- Miranda Foster finished with a match-high 11 kills. She also added six digs and a block assist.

Key Northwest Statistics
- Northwest hit .248 for the match while holding the Griffons to a .122 attack percentage.
- The Bearcats swept all three sets, winning by scores of 25-22, 25-20 and 25-19.
- Maddy Bruder added eight kills and eight digs.
- Olivia Nowakowski had a match-high 13 digs with two assists and a pair of service aces.
- Sarah Dannettell had 27 assists, seven digs, three kills, one service ace and one block.
- Darcy Sunderman hit .333 with five kills, two digs and two blocks.

Key Northwest Sequences
- Tied 6-6 in the first set, Northwest went on a 6-0 run to pull ahead. Foster started the run with a kill and Missouri Western committed an attack error to make it 8-6. Dannettell and Williams combined on a block to make it 9-6. Another Griffon attack error combined with a Williams kill made it 11-6, forcing a Missouri Western timeout. Out of the break, Williams put away another kill to complete the six-point run.

- The Bearcats got off to a quick 4-0 start in the second set. Williams and Foster combined for a block to start the set. Williams then recorded back-to-back kills to make it 3-0. On the next point, Williams combined with Sunderman for a block to put Northwest up 4-0. The Bearcats would not trail the rest of the set, leading to a 25-20 set win.

- A 9-0  Bearcat run in the third broke a 3-3 tie to put Northwest in the lead early, 12-3. Bruder recorded a kill and then Missouri Western was forced into an attacking error to make it 5-3. Sunderman put away a kill and Nowakowski followed it up with an ace for a 7-3 advantage. Bruder and Foster put away back-to-back kills making it 9-3, forcing a Griffon timeout. After a bad set from Missouri Western, Nowakowski recorded another ace and Sunderman notched another kill to make it 12-3 Bearcats.

Up Next
- The Bearcats will head to St. Charles, Mo., to face Lindenwood at 7 p.m., before traveling to Warrensburg on Saturday to take on Central Missouri.