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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team fell to the No. 3 ranked Nebraska-Kearney Lopers, 3-2, on Friday evening in Bearcat Arena in Maryville, Mo.
- The No. 21 ranked Bearcats fall to 21-5 overall and 9-5 in MIAA play. The Lopers improved to 29-1 and 14-1 in conference action.
- Senior Miranda Foster had a career-high 26 digs with 16 kills and three blocks. She also recorded three assists.
- During the second set of Friday's match, Foster recorded her 1,000th career kill.
- Maddy Bruder had 18 digs and 15 kills. She finished the night with six total blocks.

Key Northwest Statistics
- The Bearcats won the first set, 25-22 but fell in the next two sets, 25-12 and 25-23. Northwest rebounded with a 25-20 win in the fourth but lost 15-12 in the fifth.
- Defensively, the Bearcats had 19 total blocks and finished with 97 digs.
- Olivia Nowakowski had a match-high 31 digs. She also had three assists and one service ace.
- Sarah Dannettell recorded 48 assists and six kills. Defensively, she recorded six digs and five blocks.
- Jackie Becker had 10 block assists, tying her single game career best. During the match, she surpassed 300 career blocks.
- Alexis Williams had eight kills with four blocks and a dig.
- Sofia Schleppenbach had five kills, five blocks and a pair of digs.

Key Northwest Sequences
- Northwest fell behind early in the first set, 7-1 but an 11-2 put the Bearcats right back in the match. Bruder started the rally with a pair of kills. After a Megan Stilmock service ace, Northwest forced an attacking error to cut the Loper lead to 7-5. Burder, Dannettell and Becker recorded three-straight kills before UNK was able to tie the match back up at 8-8. After a Bearcat attacking error, the Lopers gave a point back on a service error to tie the set, 9-9. Bruder then took care of the next three points starting with a service ace, a kill and a block with Becker to put Northwest up 12-9.

- The Bearcats took control early in the fourth set. After Bruder tied the set 1-1, Northwest got back-to-back blocks to go up 3-1. A Bearcat service error made it 3-2 but Schleppenbach answered with a kill to go up 4-2. UNK got a kill to pull within one at 4-3, but then hit an attacking error and Dannattell recorded a block to put the Bearcats up, 6-3. Northwest would not trail the rest of the set to tie the match, 2-2.

Up Next
- Northwest will host Fort Hays State on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 3 p.m. in Bearcat Arena.