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Story Headlines
- The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team dropped a pair of Saturday matches at the Ferris State Invitational.
- The Bearcats fell in a tough five-set match to Davenport University, 3-2.
- In the afternoon session, No. 14 ranked Ferris State beat the Bearcats, 3-0.
- Northwest is now 1-3 on the season.
- Maddy Bruder was named to the All-Tournament team for her play this weekend.

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Match One Key Statistics (Davenport 3, Northwest 2)
- The Bearcats fell in the first set, 25-19, but rebounded to win the second, 25-16. Davenport took the third, 25-21, and Northwest evened the match with a 25-19 fourth set win.
- In the fifth set, Davenport
- Bruder had a match-high 21 kills, adding 13 digs and five blocks.
- Darcy Sunderman had 12 kills with four digs and three blocks.
- Sarah Dannettell had 32 assists, seven digs, a kill, a block and a service ace.
- Hallie Sidney had nine kills with four digs and a block.
- Sofia Schleppenbach had six kills and eight digs. She added a pair of blocks and two service aces.
- Jordyn Musselman and 13 assists and four digs.
- Olivia Nowakowski had a match-high 23 digs with an assist.
 
Match One Key Sequence
- Up 20-18 in the fourth set, Northwest closed by winning five of the next six points. After a Davenport attacking error, Sunderman and Schleppenbach got a block to make it 22-18. Davenport would get a kill to pull within three, 22-19, but Bruder had back-to-back kills to give the Bearcats match point. On the next sequence, Davenport was called for a bad set to give Northwest the point and evened the match at 2-2.

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Match Two Key Statistics (Ferris State 3, Northwest 0)
- No. 14 Ferris State won the sets by scores of 25-19, 25-18 and 25-15.
- Bruder led the Bearcats with eight kills and added seven kills with two blocks.
- Sunderman had seven kills with five digs and three blocks.
- Alexis Williams had five kills, three blocks and a service ace.
- Nowakowski had 13 digs with a service ace.
- Dannettell had 15 assists with three digs and a service ace.
- Musselman had 11 assists and nine digs.

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Up Next
- The Bearcats will head to the Quincy University Tournament starting on Friday, Sept. 8, in Quincy, Ill.