Box score, play-by-play

SEATTLE – They put ball down very well, dug it up very well and blocked it very well. But it was the serve that haunted the Seattle Pacific Falcons on Thursday night.
 
Michelle Terpstra and Kaitlyn Tuholski both had triple-doubles for Northwest Nazarene as the Crusaders stormed back from losing the first two games and upset 19^th-ranked SPU in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match.
                    
Scores in Brougham Pavilion were 17-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-12.
 
The Falcons (13-5, 7-2 GNAC), playing the 800^th match in program  history, had a four-match overall winning streak and 14-match homecourt winning streak snapped.
 





Tuholski had 14 kills, 24 assists and 10 digs. Terpstra recorded 11 kills, 23 assists and 13 digs. Terpstra's triple-double was her second of the year.
 
Senior outside hitter Lindsey Wodrich (Richland, Wash./Richland HS) had a season-high 20 kills for SPU. Senior outside hitter Paige Hoffman (Encinitas, Calif.) added 14 kills, and sophomore middle blocker Nikki Lowell (Claremont, Calif.) had 10.
 
Hoffman and Wodrich both made it double-doubles. Wodrich had 13 digs to go along with her 20 kills, and Hoffman came up with 11 digs. Wodrich has nine double-doubles for the season and 28 for her career. Hoffman had her first of the year and fifth of her career.
 
But all of that came up short because the Falcons were hampered by 20 serving errors.
 
“You can't miss 20 serves and expect to beat anybody,” Seattle Pacific coach Chris Johnson said. “Our offense looked pretty good throughout the whole match, and our defense looked good throughout the match. But we missed way too many serves. Once we got the ball in play, I thought we were the better team tonight.”
 
Junior setter Shelby Swanson (Kennewick, Wash./Kamiakin HS) had 57 assists, just one short of her career high.

SPU had 12 more kills than the Crusaders (64-52), an equal number of digs (83) and had 12.5 blocks.
 
The Falcons return to Brougham on Saturday night at 7 against Central Washington.
 
It was the third straight match in which Seattle Pacific went to five games. The Falcons beat Western Washington in GNAC play last Saturday and British Columbia in a non-conference match on Monday.
 
The teams were deadlocked from 1-1 all the way through 11-11 in Thursday's Game 5. Northwest Nazarene then scored four of the final five points to take the match.
 
“They definitely gained confidence as the match went,” Johnson said of the Crusaders. “But that's what you play against every night. We're picked to win the conference, so we have a target on our backs, and we know that everybody's bringing their best game against us.”
 
Thursday's match started off with the makings of an SPU sweep. Except for a 1-1 tie, the Falcons led all the way in Game 1, and, after yielding the first point, never trailed again in Game 2.
 
The third game was tied 15 times and the lead had changed hands six times before SPU forged a 21-19 advantage. That's when Northwest Nazarene ran off five straight points on the way to closing it out. Another late run in Game 4 took the Crusaders from 20-18 down to 22-20 up, and they hung on to square the match at two games apiece.

"We had a lot of great (individual) performances," Johnson said. "(But) we really shot ourselves in the foot at the service line."
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
Northwest Nazarene 3, (No. 19) Seattle Pacific 2
 
Game scores – 17-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-12.
 
Service aces – NNU 1 (Kaitlyn Tuholski 1), SPU 5 (Brianna Leenders 2, Anna Herold 2).
Kills – NNU 52 (Tubolski 14, Michelle Terpstra 11), SPU 64 (Lindsey Wodrich 20, Paige Hoffman 14, Nikki Lowell 10).
Assists – NNU 48 (Tuholski 24, Terpstra 23), SPU 61 (Shelby Swanson 57).
Digs – NNU 83 (Kailey Trautmann 25), SPU 83 (Anna Herold 25, Brianna Leenders 15).
Blocks (total / solo) – NNU 25 / 1 solo (Terpstra 6 / 0 solo, Haley Abbott 6 / 0 solo), SPU 24 / 1 solo (Angie Pricco 5 / 0 solo, Lowell 5 / 0 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – NNU 52-28-180--.133 (Terpstra 11-2-30--.300), SPU 64-28-186—194 (Lowell 10-3-22--.318, Hoffman 14-3-38--.289).
Attendance – 180.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 13-5, 7-2 GNAC. Northwest Nazarene 10-5, 7-3 GNAC.
 
Next match – Central Washington at Seattle Pacific, Saturday, Brougham Pavilion, 7:00 p.m.