Box Score
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Seattle Pacific Falcons came up short on kills, and that meant coming up short on the scoreboard against Alaska Anchorage.
 
Madi Cavell had nine kills, and Jessica Miller put down eight, but the Seawolves slammed 14 more on Monday night and swept SPU in a match between two of the last three unbeaten Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball teams.
 
Scores in the Alaska Airlines Center were 25-18, 25-16, 25-20.
 
UAA (10-2, 4-0 GNAC) had 43 kills for the match, and hit .234. The Falcons (9-3, 3-1 GNAC) wound up with just 29 kills and hit .150.
 
"That was a big part of it. They also outserved us by a great margin," Falcons coach Chris Johnson said. (Anchorage had 11 aces; SPU just two.) "Madi's hitting percentage wasn't bad (Cavell hit .219, which is 15 points above her season average), but we want to get more kills out of her than that. Jessica was great offensively (hitting .353). That's a great percentage for her – she did everything we wanted her to do.
 
"We just have to make sure we're doing things better and executing better, making better choices as hitters, and being more disciplined on the block," Johnson added.
 
The Falcons fly home on Tuesday morning, then get ready to face arch-rival and national No. 11-ranked Western Washington on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Brougham Pavilion. SPU is approaching the end of a taxing stretch of six matches in 12 days to start conference play.
 
Anchorage built big leads in all three games. SPU stormed back from a 16-11 deficit in Game 1 to take an18-17 edge as senior libero Brianna Leenders (Gresham, Ore.) went on a four-point serving streak.
 
But the Seawolves then went on a streak of their own, running off the last eight points to wrap up that game.
 
UAA was in command for most of the second game after using an early 5-0 run to turn a 3-1 deficit into a 6-3 lead.
 
Seattle Pacific fell into an early 9-3 hole in the third game. But after a Cavell kill gave the Falcons a point and sideout, senior setter Sara Biondi served up five straight points to tie it at 9-9.
 
Still deadlocked at 11-11, Anchorage ran off six straight. The Falcons climbed all the way back within one at 20-19, as senior Kendall Carver's serve led to four points in a row.
 
But the Seawolves scored five of the last six to clinch it.
 
"We had the same scoring pattern all three games: Let the out to a big early lead, come back, but then let them off the hook," Johnson said. "It was just a frustrating night, and a night when we weren't able to play at our best for the entire match."
 
Sophomore middle blocker Maddi Hommes (Lynden, Wash. / Lynden HS) set a career-high with five block assists on Monday. Her previous best was four, a mark she reached three times earlier this season.
 
Outside hitter Katelynn Zanders led the Seawolves with 11 kills, hit .364 with just three errors on 22 attacks, and had five of those aces. That included three straight aces as part of the early five-point run in Game 2.
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Monday, September 22, 2014
Alaska Airlines Center / Anchorage, Alaska
 
Alaska Anchorage 3, Seattle Pacific 0
 
Game scores – 25-18, 25-16, 25-20.
 
Service aces – SPU 2 (Kendall Carver 1, Breanne Wiekamp 1), UAA 11 (Katelyn Zanders 5).
Kills – SPU 29 (Madi Cavell 9), UAA 43 (Katelyn Zanders 11).
Assists – SPU 29 (Sara Biondi 26), UAA 41 (Morgan Hooe 35).
Digs – SPU 44 (Cavell 13), UAA 46 (Quinn Barker 15).
Block assists / solo blocks – SPU 12 / 0 solo (Maddi Hommes 5 / 0 solo), UAA 6 / 0 solo (McGlathery 2 / 0 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – SPU 29-14-100--.150 (Jessica Miller 8-2-17--.353), UAA 43-18-107—.234 (Zanders 11-3-22--.364).
Attendance – NA.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 9-3, 3-1 GNAC. Alaska Anchorage 10-2, 4-0 GNAC.
 
Next match – No. 11 Western Washington at Seattle Pacific, Thursday, Brougham Pavilion, 7:30 p.m.