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University of Northern Iowa
Indiana State
No. 11 UNI Volleyball Sweeps Sycamores For 13th Straight Win
10/22/2011 1:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - The No. 11 University of Northern Iowa volleyball team swept Indiana State 25-18, 25-17, 25-13 Saturday night in the McLeod Center to win its 47th-straight Missouri Valley Conference match and extend its current overall win streak to 13.
Amy Braun led UNI (22-1, 11-0 MVC) with 12 kills, and Shelby Kintzel and Michelle Burow each finished with nine. Candice Burke led UNI with 13 digs, and Jenny Willms came up with 10. Kintzel led the Panthers with six blocks. Bre Payton finished with 39 assists and nine digs, and Molly Turk tallied three service aces.
Shea Doran led Indiana State (10-12, 2-9 MVC) with nine kills.
Set one featured three lead changes and four ties, including at 14-14. UNI used a kill from Burow, a block from Burow and Kintzel and three kills from Braun to post a 5-0 run and build a 19-14 lead. UNI led by at least four and as many as seven on the way to a 25-18 set win. Twenty of UNI's 25 points came on kills, with seven of those coming from Braun and five coming from Kintzel.
Leading just 11-10 in set two, UNI rattled off eight straight points to extend its lead to 19-10. Two of those points came from back-to-back service aces from Willms. The Sycamores scored consecutive points to pull within seven, 19-12, but the Panthers never let ISU any closer on the way to the 25-17 win.
The Panthers trailed 5-4 in the third set before a 10-0 UNI run gave UNI a 14-5 lead. Burow tallied three kills during that stretch, and Turk put down three service aces. The Panthers would go on to lead by as many as 13 points on the way to the 25-13 win.
The Panthers finished the match with a .337 attack percentage, including a .462 attack percentage in the final set. After hitting .258 in the first set, Indiana State hit .000 in the second set and .071 in the third to finish with a .104 attack percentage in the match.
UNI finished with 8.0 team blocks, and Indiana State finished with one. The Panthers finished with seven service aces, and the Sycamores notched three.
The No. 11 Panthers return to action on Friday when they play at Missouri State.
