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Winner Dakota Wesleyan DWU 22-6, 11-5
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Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | NWC Athletic Communications

Raiders Drop Heartbreaker in GPAC Quarterfinals

Liv Reitsma (assists, 62) and Olivia Granstra (digs, 36) set new career-highs in the match

ORANGE CITY, Iowa – The No. 4-seed Northwestern College volleyball team (21-7, 11-5 GPAC) dropped a five-set heartbreaker to No. 5-seed Dakota Wesleyan (22-6, 11-5 GPAC) in the 2022 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Quarterfinals Saturday night inside the Bultman Center.
 
Dakota Wesleyan took the first set inside a full Bultman Center in a tightly consisted opening set, 25-21. The momentum needed to prevail came with a 4-0 spurt thanks to four-straight kills to take a 20-13 lead. Despite the eight-point deficit, Northwestern would battle and bring the set to 24-21, before an attack error gave the Tigers the set one victory.
 
Set two proved to be one of the most entertaining of the match, going extra points. Northwestern used a 6-0 run to jump out to a 19-15 lead, trailing 15-13 when the run began. The Raiders would extend that lead to 24-17, thanks to another 5-0 run. The Tigers, however, would not be deterred. They used a match-high eight-point swing to take a stunning 25-24 lead, but Alysen Dexter (So., Urbandale, Iowa) would tie it back up at 25-25. Ultimately, some untimely mistakes would allow Dakota Wesleyan to take the set 27-25, jumping out to a 2-0 match lead.
 
Northwestern would storm out in the third set, to keep the match alive, with a blistering .485 hitting percentage (17 kills, 1 error, 33 attempts). The Raiders would jump out to a 14-7 lead, highlighted by a pair of kills from Macay Van't Hul (So., Rock Valley, Iowa), Bekah Horstman (Sr., Pella, Iowa), and Jazlin De Haan (So., Orange City, Iowa). Soon after, a 7-1 run would make it 21-10 Raiders, as kills from Dexter and Liv Reitsma (Fr., Papillion, Neb.) and a service ace from Jadeyn Schutt (Sr., Orange City, Iowa) sent the match to a fourth set, prevailing 25-12.
 
The Red Raiders would continue the fight and the comeback attempt would continue, as Northwestern would take set four 25-19 to force the decisive fifth set. It was another run (6-1), led by two kills from De Haan, that gave NWC a 13-10 run. It would go back and forth, until Northwestern rattled off seven of the last nine points in the set to take it 25-19. In that span, four different Raiders recorded kills.
 
The fifth set, to no surprise, also was a tightly contested affair. Northwestern used a time out trailing 7-4, following a pair of Tiger kills. The Raiders would respond with back-to-back points out of the break, making it 7-6 but DWU picked up a kill as the team's switched sides with it being 8-6 DWU. With DWU leading 12-9 and out of the second Raider time out, a pair of kills from Dexter and Van't Hul pulled NWC to within one (12-11). The Tigers would turn to Mariah Gloe, who delivered back-to-back kills, making it match point at 14-11. Gloe would finish the match with another kill, as the Tigers would take the set 15-12 and prevail in five sets over the Red Raiders.

MATCH NOTES:
  • Liv Reitsma set a new career-high with 62 assists in the five-set thriller.
  • Olivia Granstra notched a new career-high 36 digs.
  • The Raiders notched 12 team blocks to Dakota Wesleyan's four, while also having 75 kills to DWU's 64.
  • Jazlin De Haan (24) and Alysen Dexter (22) both had 20+ kills to pace the Raiders on the match, while Macay Van't Hul provided 11 kills.
  • De Haan, Jadeyn Schutt, and Jaidyn Teske all notched two service aces.
  • Bekah Horstman led the team with seven blocks, followed by Van't Hul with five and De Haan with four.
  • Along with Granstra's career-high in digs, De Haan added 18 and Teske had 14.
  • NWC hit a blistering .485 in the third set after going down 2-0.
  • Tonight marks the second-straight season NWC has dropped a five-set heartbreaker to Dakota Wesleyan in the GPAC Quarterfinals.
Up Next: The Raiders run ends in the quarterfinals and the team will await the pairings for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament, announced on Monday, November 14 at 10:00 a.m. (CT).
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