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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team swept Fort Hays State, 3-0, on Saturday at Gross Memorial Coliseum in Hays, Kan.
- The Bearcats improve to 10-9 on the year and 4-3 in MIAA play. The Tigers fall to 9-12 overall and 1-6 in conference action.
- Maddy Bruder had a match-high 14 kills to go along with 12 digs. She now has 992 career kills.
- Olivia Nowakowski recorded 18 digs to lead Northwest defensively. She added a service ace and had three assists. Nowakowski now has 986 career digs.

Key Northwest Statistics
- The Bearcats won all three sets by scores of 25-14, 25-18 and 25-19.
- Northwest hit .410 for the match, committing just eight total errors. Fort Hays hit .172 with 16 errors.
- Sofia Schleppenbach had 10 kills with three digs. She hit .450  for the match.
- Maddy Ahrens had 22 assists with three digs while Sarah Dannettell added 21 assists with a pair of blocks and a kill.
- Morgan Lewis added nine kills with three blocks.
- Darcy Sunderman had nine kills with just one attacking error. She had seven digs, two blocks and a service ace.
- Gaby da Silva had eight kills with nine digs and a service ace.

Key Northwest Sequence
- Northwest trailed 6-5 in the early in the third set. But the Bearcats would rally, scoring nine-straight points to take a commanding lead of the set. After a pair of attacking errors by the Tigers, Schleppenbach put away a kill and Fort Hays committed another error, forcing a timeout. Out of the break, the Tigers were whistled for a bad set to make it 10-6. Schleppenbach and Dannettell recorded back-to-back kills before another Tiger attacking error made it 13-6. Nowakowski finished off the rally with a service ace for the eight-point advantage, 14-6.

Up Next
- Northwest stays on the road next weekend to play at Pittsburg State on Friday, Oct. 13 and then head to Central Oklahoma on Saturday.