Box score, play-by-play

SEATTLE – The Western Oregon Wolves were the hottest team in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference coming into Saturday afternoon's volleyball match against Seattle Pacific – and they stayed hot.
 
Cailin Fellows and Shelby Swanson each had double-doubles, and Nikki Lowell added 10 kills for the Falcons, but Western Oregon led almost all the way in all three games to score a 25-17, 25-18, 25-20 sweep in Brougham Pavilion.
 
The Wolves (18-5, 11-3 GNAC) now have won seven straight matches and eight of their last nine.
 
SPU fell to 11-12, 8-6 in conference play.
 
“It just wasn't our best effort,” Falcons coach Chris Johnson said. “We had some good performances from a couple of key players, but that wasn't enough. We didn't execute in the way we have been recently.”
 
The Falcons take their final road trip of the season next week, visiting Alaska Fairbanks on Thursday and Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday. Both matches start at 8 p.m. PST.
 
Senior outside hitter Fellows (Edmonds, Wash. / Edmonds-Woodway HS) had 15 kills and 12 digs for her fourth double-double of the season and sixth of her career. Fellows hit .282 for the match.
 
Senior setter Swanson (Kennewick, Wash. / Kamiakin HS) had 32 assists and 11 digs. That was her 12^th double-double of the season and 29^th of her career. Swanson moved up to No. 6 on the all-time GNAC assists list – just two days after taking over the No. 7 spot. She now has 3,585 career assists and is 157 away from joining the conference's all-time top five.
 
Junior middle blocker Lowell (Claremont, Calif.) hit a team-leading .333.
 
Western Oregon, which has won 18 games in a row since dropping the first one at Alaska Fairbanks on Oct. 18, scored the first three points of the match, and trailed just once all day – at 2-1 in Game 2. The Wolves subsequently took control of that game with a 6-0 run that broke a 7-7 tie.
 
In the third game, a 7-1 scoring streak turned a 6-6 tie into a 13-7 WOU lead, and Seattle Pacific never got closer than three after that.
 
Last month, it was the Falcons doing the sweeping in Monmouth. Since then, the Wolves' only loss was in a three-gamer at Central Washington.
 
“Western Oregon is playing much better. They're not making mistakes, so it's very hard to beat them,” Johnson said. “They're not giving you anything.”
 
Indeed, the Wolves had 43 kills and just eight attack errors on 102 swings for a .343 percentage. SPU, after a season-best .473 performance in a three-game sweep of Saint Martin's on Thursday night, hit .176 on Saturday (39 kills, 18 errors, 119 attacks). 
  
 
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
Western Oregon 3, Seattle Pacific 0
 
Game scores – 25-17, 25-18, 25-20.
 
Service aces – WOU 6 (Becky Blees 2), SPU 3 (3 players with 1).
Kills – WOU 53 (Samantha Ward 12), SPU 39 (Cailin Fellows 15, Nikki Lowell 10).
Assists – WOU 38 (Jordin Ramos 17, LesLyne Satele 17), SPU 38 (Shelby Swanson 32).
Digs – WOU 53 (Danielle Reese 16), SPU 49 (Fellows 12, Swanson 11, Breanne Wiekamp 11).
Block assists / solo blocks – WOU 14 / 1 solo (Reese 4 / 0 solo), SPU 4 / 0 solo (Madi Cavell 2 / 0 solo, Jackie Arnold 2 / 0 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – WOU 43-8-102--.343 (Blees 6-0-11--.545), SPU 39-18-119—.176 (Lowell 10-3-21--.333).
Attendance – 189.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 11-12, 8-6 GNAC. Western Oregon 18-5, 11-3 GNAC.
 
Next match – Seattle Pacific at Alaska Fairbanks, Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m. PST.