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Winner Northwest Missouri NWMSU 11-9, 5-3 MIAA
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Pittsburg State PSU 3-17, 0-8 MIAA
Winner
Northwest Missouri NWMSU
11-9, 5-3 MIAA
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Final
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Pittsburg State PSU
3-17, 0-8 MIAA
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Northwest Missouri NWMSU 25 25 25 (3)
Pittsburg State PSU 17 21 20 (0)

Game Recap: Volleyball |

Bearcat duo hit milestones in win at PSU

Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team swept Pittsburg State, 3-0, on Friday at John Lance Arena in Pittsburg, Kan.
- The Bearcats improve to 11-9 on the year and 5-3 in MIAA play. The Gorillas fall to 3-17 overall and 0-8 in conference action.
- Junior Maddy Bruder recorded her 1,000th career kill in the match and classmate Olivia Nowakowski carded her 1,000th career dig.
- Bruder finished the match with a match-high 12 kills to go along with 12 digs, two blocks and a service ace.
- Nowakowski had 16 digs with an assist.

Key Northwest Statistics
- Northwest won all three sets by scores of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-20.
- The Bearcats held the Gorillas to a .092 attack percentage. Northwest also recorded seven aces while PSU had just one.
- Sofia Schleppenbach had 11 kills with four service aces, two blocks and two digs.
- Gaby da Silva had nine digs to go along with a pair of service aces and a block.
- Morgan Lewis added six kills with three blocks.
- Sarah Dannettell had 17 assists with two blcoks.
- Maddy Ahrens had 15 assists with six digs.

Key Northwest Sequences
- The second set the Bearcats jumped out to an early lead. After a PSU attacking error, Schleppenbach had a service ace to make it 2-0. Sunderman and Lewis tallied back-to-back kills, pushing the lead to 4-0. After a Gorilla attack error and a bad set, PSU called a timeout trailing, 6-0. The Gorillas got their first point off a kill but another bad set, a kil from Lewis and another attacking error put Northwest up, 9-1. Pitt State battled back and even got to within one, 17-16, before the Bearcats went on an 8-4 run to close out the set.

- In the third, Pittsburg State took a late 20-19 lead on a kill from Noelle Dooley. But a kill from da Silva tied the match with a kill. With Schleppenbach at the service line, Northwest put away the match. She hit a pair of service aces and then PSU was called for an out of rotation point, giving the Bearcats a 23-20 lead. After a Gorilla attack error, PSU called a timeout as Northwest held match point. Sunderman gave the Bearcats the set off a kill from Ahrens.

Up Next
- The Bearcats will head to Edmond, Okla., for a 7 p.m. Saturday contest against Central Oklahoma.
 
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