SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – What an entertaining week of Summit League volleyball as two teams recorded reverse sweep and another team is riding an eight-match winning streak. St. Thomas picked up a home reverse sweep against North Dakota State for its first league win of the season, while South Dakota notched a reverse sweep of their own against in-state foe South Dakota State.
 
Omaha took sole possession of first place in the league standings and have notched eight straight wins. The Mavericks will head to Vermillion to face the defending regular season and tournament champion Coyotes in what should be a highly competitive match.
 
After losing their first league match of the season last week, Kansas City are winners of three straight matches. Meanwhile, Denver, who sits third overall in the standings, will begin a road trip where they will face North Dakota and North Dakota State.

TEAM TRACKER
DENVER PIONEERS (7-9; 6-2 SL) | @DU_Volleyball
Next Up: at North Dakota (10/19; 6 p.m. MT); at North Dakota State (10/21; 12 p.m. MT)
Previous Matches: at Omaha (L, 3-0); vs. South Dakota State (W, 3-0)
The Pioneers went 1-1 last week and sit third in the league standings with a 6-2 ledger ... After falling in straight sets to Omaha, Denver bounced back with a home sweep against South Dakota State ... Cassie Davis notched seven kills in the second set of the match to prompt a comeback win in set two after being down by as many as 11 points ... Davis finished the match with 15 kills, while Molly Mirabelli led the Pioneers with five blocks ... DU got a match-high 19 digs from Gianna Bartalo along with a pair of service aces.
 
KANSAS CITY ROOS (16-4; 7-1 SL) | @KCRoosVB
Next Up: at South Dakota State (10/21; 1 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: vs. North Dakota (W, 3-0); vs. South Dakota (W, 3-2); at St. Thomas (W, 3-0)
After losing its first league match of the season last week at Denver, Kansas City are now winners of three straight matches ... Odyssey Warren spearheaded the team’s offense with 11 kills against North Dakota, 21 kills against South Dakota and nine against St. Thomas ... On the defensive side of the ball, Leah Green recorded a career-high 22 digs for a three-set match against the Fighting Hawks ... Additionally, she flawlessly received 25 serves, achieving a perfect 1.000 reception percentage against UND ... Green tacked on 10 more digs against the Coyotes, while Sydney Henry notched 31 assists against the Tommies ... Henry sits first in league play with 335 assists and second overall with 10.15 assists per set.
 
NORTH DAKOTA FIGHTING HAWKS (5-15; 2-6 SL) | @UNDvolleyball
Next Up: vs. Denver (10/19; 7 p.m. CT); vs. Oral Roberts (10/21; 12 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: at Kansas City (L, 3-0); at Omaha (L, 3-1); at North Dakota State (L, 3-0)
The Fighting Hawks closed out its three match road trip and will look to bounce back with a pair of home matches this week ... Marissa Stockman hit over .500 in both matches last week where she tallied 12 kills with no errors ... Izzie McCormick collected 27 digs over two matches (3.86 digs per set) and totaled 14 digs against Kansas City, 13 against Omaha and five against North Dakota State ... Stockman’s hitting percentage of .431 tops the league charts, while McCormick’s 0.52 service aces per set ranks third overall.
 
NORTH DAKOTA STATE BISON (12-7; 4-4 SL) | @NDSUvolleyball
Next Up: vs. Oral Roberts (10/19; 7 p.m. CT); vs. Denver (10/21; 11 a.m. CT)
Previous Matches: at St. Thomas (L, 3-2); vs. North Dakota (W, 3-0)
For the third consecutive week, NDSU went 1-1 last with a five-set loss to St. Thomas and a sweep over in-state rival North Dakota ... Ali Hinze recorded her fifth straight double-double with a season-best 21 kills and 11 digs against the Tommies ... Hinze, who has reached double figures in kills in 17 of the first 19 matches, led the way with a match-high 10 kills and tied career-high seven blocks against the Fighting Hawks ... Taylor Quan recorded a season-best 27 digs at UST and surpassed the 1,000 career digs mark last week ... Kelley Johnson handed out a match-best 27 assists to go along with a team-best eight digs against St. Thomas ... Johnson tops the league lead in assists per set at 10.48.
 
OMAHA MAVERICKS (9-10; 8-1 SL) | @OmahaVB
Next Up: at South Dakota (10/19; 6 p.m. CT); vs. St. Thomas (10/21; 5 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: vs. Denver (W, 3-0); vs. North Dakota (W, 3-1); at Oral Roberts (W, 3-1)
Omaha are winners of eight straight matches and have jumped to first place in the league standings ... The Mavericks swept Denver last week as Shayla McCormick and McKenna Ruch each tallied 12 kills ... In a four-set triumph over North Dakota, Ruch was tied with Brynlee Arnold with 13 kills, while Emily Huss became the first Maverick this season to reach double-digit blocks as she ended the match with a career-high 11 ... Olivia Tukuafu now has aces in six straight matches after leading Omaha with four in a four-set victory over Oral Roberts ... Erica Fava’s three services aces against the Golden Eagles gives her 26 on the season and sole possession of third place in the league ... Omaha will look to extend its winning streak when they face South Dakota and St. Thomas this week.
 
ORAL ROBERTS GOLDEN EAGLES (3-16; 1-6 SL) | @ORUVolleyball
Next Up: at North Dakota State (10/19; 7 p.m. CT); at North Dakota (10/21; 12 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: vs. South Dakota State (L, 3-1); vs. Omaha (L, 3-1)
Kalena Vaivai registered her third straight double-double after dishing out 32 assists and logging 12 digs against South Dakota State ... The senior also registered a match-best six service aces and four kills ... Kedron Burk logged a career-high eight blocks (three solos) against the Jackrabbits and the eight blocks were the most by a Golden Eagle this season ... Trinity Freeman topped ORU in kills against Omaha for the 14th straight match as the junior tallied a match-high 17 kills ... The 15-plus kill performance marked the seventh of the season and 21st of her career ... As a team, ORU totaled season-high tying 12 blocks to Omaha’s nine ... Furthermore, the Golden Eagles logged a season-high tying six solo blocks ... Burk’s 1.15 blocks per set sits third in the league.
 
ST. THOMAS TOMMIES (5-14; 0-5 SL) | @Tommievball
Next Up: at South Dakota (10/12; 7 p.m. CT); vs. North Dakota State (10/14; 12 p.m. CT); vs. Kansas City (10/17; 7 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: at South Dakota (L, 3-0); vs. North Dakota State (W, 3-2); vs. Kansas City (L, 3-0)
After falling on the road to South Dakota in straight sets, the Tommies picked up its first league win of the season with a reverse sweep against North Dakota State ... St. Thomas fell to NDSU their previous five matches in 3-0 fashions ... Allie Kopp led the team with a career-high 33 assists, while Tezra Rudzitis led the team with a career-high 16 kills to hit .297 overall ... Ellie Gustafson recorded a double-double of 13 kills and 15 digs to hit .333 overall ... Ella Voegele sits third in league play with 4.36 digs per set ... In a loss to Kansas City, Libby Mattila picked up nine kills, nine digs, one service ace, one solo block and one block assist.
 
SOUTH DAKOTA COYOTES (11-8; 5-3 SL) | @SDCoyotesVB
Next Up: vs. Omaha (10/19; 6 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: vs. St. Thomas (W, 3-0); at Kansas City (L, 3-2); vs. South Dakota State (W, 3-2)
The Coyotes went 2-1 overall this past week picking up a sweep against St. Thomas and a thrilling reverse sweep against in-state rival South Dakota State ... In their two matches last week, Madison Harms totaled 31 kills and notched a .413 hitting percentage ... She averaged 3.88 kills per set and 1.63 blocks per set ... Kamryn Farris totaled 45 digs in USD’s two games where she averaged 5.63 digs per set ... Farris tallied a career-high and match-high 26 digs in USD’s five-set loss to Kansas City and produced had 19 digs against the Tommies ... Farris broke her previous career-high 26 digs against the Roos with a 30-dig outing against SDSU ... South Dakota saw three hitters reach double-digit kills in the five-set battle, including 16 kills apiece from Madison Harms and Kylen Sealock ... Brooklyn Schram put up 47 assists and 16 digs for her first double-double of the year ... USD has won 17 straight matches against the Jackrabbits ... Harms sits first in league play with 42 blocks and third with 109 kills.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE JACKRABBITS (4-16; 2-6 SL) | @GoJacksVB
Next Up: vs. St. Thomas (10/19; 7 p.m. CT); vs. Kansas City (10/21; 1 p.m. CT)
Previous Matches: at Oral Roberts (W, 3-1); at Denver (L, 3-0); at South Dakota (L, 3-2)
Rylee Martin averaged 8.57 assists per set in a 1-1 that saw them defeated Oral Roberts and fall to Denver ... She set a new career high with 35 assists and 17 digs at ORU and averaged 3.71 digs per set ... Martin took part in a career and team-high six blocks at Denver ... She dished 8.57 assists and tallied four kills and three aces last week ... Against in-state rival South Dakota, Katie Van Egdom added 16 kills followed by Masa Scheierman with nine and Sydni Schetnan with eight ... Raegen Reilly (25) and Rylee Martin (24) combined for 49 of SDSU’s 55 total assists ... Sylvie Zgonc posted a career-high 26 kills and averaged 10 kills per set over the opening two frames ... Van Egdom continues to lead the league with 120 kills in league action.
 
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