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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team picked up two wins on Saturday on the final day of the Gold and Green Challenge in Bearcat Arena to move to 8-0 on the year.
- The Bearcats beat Oklahoma Baptist, 3-0, and then won a challenging 3-2 match with No. 24 ranked Rockhurst in the evening match.
- This marks just the third time in program history a Northwest team has started the year 8-0 (1984 & 1980).
- Maddy Bruder had 41 kills on the day and added 21 digs, six blocks and three service aces.
 

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Match One Key Statistics (Northwest 3, Oklahoma Baptist 0)
- Northwest swept the Bisons in three sets, winning 25-20, 25-15 and 25-15.
- The Bearcats hit .272 for the match and held Oklahoma Baptist to a .011 attack percentage.
- Bruder recorded a match-high 14 kills with nine digs and three blocks.
- Alexis Williams had 10 kills with five blocks and a service ace. She hit .467 for the match with just three errors.
- Sarah Dannettell had 35 assists, six digs, a block and a kill.
- Olivia Nowakowski recorded 18 digs, three service aces and one kill.
- Jackie Becker had three blocks and six kills for Northwest.

Match One Key Sequence
- Down 6-4 in the first set, the Bearcats used a 6-0 run to give themselves a lead en route to the set win. Williams started the rally with a kill and then OBU committed four-straight attacking errors, including block assists from Darcy Sunderman and Becker to make it 9-6 Northwest. After a Bison timeout, Miranda Foster came up with a kill off an assist from Bruder for a 10-6 lead.

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Match Two Key Statistics (Northwest 3, Rockhurst 2)
- Northwest won the first set, 25-15, but dropped the next two by scores of 26-24 and 25-21. The Bearcats came back with a 25-22 win in the fourth and got the fifth set, 15-13.
- Northwest hit .282 for the match and hit .556 in the first set with 17 kills and two errors. Rockhurst hit .234 for the match.
- Bruder had a match-high 21 kills to go along with 12 digs and three blocks.
- Foster had 17 kills with 14 digs and two blocks.
- Becker hit .333 for the match with nine kills and a block.
- Dannettell had 54 assists with six digs and three blocks.
- Nowakowski had a match-high 22 digs with two assists.
- Sofia Schleppenbach played the final three sets of the match, recording six kills with three blocks and a service ace. She hit .667 for the match.

Match Two Key Sequences
- In the first set, Northwest was holding a six-point lead until a Foster service error made it 17-12. But Rockhurst gave a service error right back to make it 18-12 and Foster came back with a kill of her own to make it 19-12. Another Hawk attack error made it 20-12 forcing a timeout. Dannettell and Williams combined on a block to make it 21-12 and Bruder gave the Bearcats a 10-point margin with a kill on the next point. Rockhurst wouldn't get any closer than eight points the remainder of the set.

- Down 12-11 in the fifth and final set, Schleppenbach sparked the Bearcats with two quick points, recording a kill and notching an ace on the ensuing serve. After a Rockhurst timeout, the Hawks came back to tie the match 13-13. On the next play, Foster recorded a kill to give Northwest its first match point. Rockhurst handled the serve but in a heads-up move, Dannettell made a quick attack instead of setting the ball and found an empty spot in Rockhurst's back line for the kill and the win.

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Up Next
- The Bearcats will head to Warrensburg, Mo., for three matches next weekend starting on Friday, Sept. 16, against Arkansas Tech at 3 p.m.