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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team picked up a 3-0 sweep over Southwest Baptist on Friday at the Meyer Sports Center in Bolivar, Mo.
- Northwest Missouri moves to 15-13 overall and 9-6 in MIAA play. SBU falls to 2-27 overall and 1-14 in conference action.
- As a team, Northwest hit .257 while holding Southwest Baptist to a .066 attack percentage with 18 errors.
- Maddy Bruder hit .405 with 18 kills against just three errors. She had five digs and a block.
- Olivia Nowakowski added 25 digs defensively with a pair of assists.

Key Northwest Statistics
- Northwest won all three sets by scores of 25-10, 25-13 and 25-21.
- At the service line, Northwest had nine total service aces while SBU did not have any.
- Darcy Sunderman had eight kills and four service aces, adding four digs defensively.
- Sarah Dannettell had 18 assits with four digs and a pair of blocks.
- Maddy Ahrens had 12 assists with a pair of blocks and a service ace.
- Sofia Schleppenbach had a pair of service aces, two blocks, two digs and four kills.
- Megan stilmock added two service aces and a pair of digs.

Key Northwest Sequences
- Northwest set the tone early in the first set, jumping out to an 8-0 lead as Sunderman recorded three aces in the sequence and Bruder added a pair of kills. Southwest Baptist would never get to within six of Northwest for the rest of the set.

- SBU would make things interesting in the third set and held a 5-4 lead before Northwest went on a 4-0 run. Southwest Baptist was called for a pair of bad sets while Bruder added a kill and Schleppenbach and Taylor Linenberger added a block to make it 9-5 Northwest. SBU would get to with in one, 12-11, but Northwest would score five of the next six poiints to pull away for good.

Up Next
- Northwest heads to Missouri Southern for a 7 p.m. match on Saturday in Joplin, Mo. It will be the last regular season road contest for Northwest. Nebraska-Kearney visits Maryville on Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.