EDMOND, Okla. - The No. 10-ranked Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team continues its surge through the MIAA with another road triumph Saturday in five sets at Central Oklahoma.

Northwest entered the match at UCO having lost all six of its previous contests in Edmond against the Bronchos. The Bearcats changed that with a stirring comeback to run their win streak to six in a row and move their season mark to 13-2 overall and 6-1 in league play. Northwest scored only its fourth win over vs. UCO and the first triumph against the Bronchos since Sept. 9, 2011.

Northwest won by set scores of 18-25, 25-13, 20-25, 28-26 and 15-10.

The Bearcats lost the opening set for the seventh time this season, but improved their mark to 6-1 when dropping the first set. UCO posted a 25-18 win in the opening set by hitting .233 with 15 kills. Northwest hit . 119 with 11 kills and six errors. UCO did not trail in the first set.

Northwest bounced back with a 25-13 trouncing of UCO in the second set. Northwest hit .375 with 17 kills and only two attack errors. Abby Brunssen and Kelsey Havel paved the way with four kills each in the set.

UCO took a 2-1 lead with a 25-20 win in the normally pivotal third set. The set featured eight ties and four lead changes. The Bronchos made only three attack errors in the set and hit .196. Northwest struggled with a 45% side out effort in the third.

The fourth set provided plenty of fireworks as it was tied 20 times and included 10 lead changes. Rachel Sturdevant pounded down seven kills, while Hannah Koechl tallied 11 digs in the fourth set alone. The Bearcats had to overcome a pair of match points at 24-22 just to keep the contest going. UCO added a third set point at 26-25, but Payton Kirchhoefer delivered a kill to knot the set at 26-26. Kelsey Havel came through with back to back kills to give Northwest the 28-26 victory and force a fifth and deciding set.

Northwest took full advantage of the fifth set to open up a 5-0 lead over the home Bronchos. But UCO failed to fade away and leveled the set at 7-7. Following a 9-9 tie, Northwest took control and closed the match on a 6-1 run to culminate the five-set victory. Jaden Ferguson powered the Bearcat offense in the fifth with five kills on nine swings.

Northwest will be back in action at home Tuesday night at 7 p.m. against the Missouri Western Griffons in the Hughes Fieldhouse.

NOTES: Northwest hit .258 for the match, while UCO hit .175 ... Northwest tallied 80 kills to 56 for UCO ... Northwest registered 127 digs, the eighth-most digs in a single-match in program history ... UCO recorded 113 digs ... Ferguson led all competitors with 19 kills (.367). Alyssa Rezac recorded a career-high 66 assists and tallied 16 digs. Koechl posted a match-high 34 digs.