Bemidji, Minn. – The 3-0 sweep of Bemidji State, sealed the first NSIC Conference Championship in program history for the No. 5 Northern State University volleyball team on Saturday afternoon. The Wolves defeated the Beavers with set scores of 25-13, 25-8, and 25-17, improving to 17-3 in the league. The win gave NSU a share of the NSIC title alongside Minnesota Duluth.
 
The conference championship is the first for the Wolves since joining the NSIC, and first for the volleyball program since the 1982 district crown. In addition, Northern tied the single season school record for wins recording their 25^th of the year. They conclude the regular season with a 25-3 record overall.
 
The Wolves offense was firing on all cylinders hitting .485 as a team with 55 kills and just five hitting errors in 103 attempts. Northern complied a match high 50 assists, 44 digs, five blocks, and five service aces. Defensively they held the Beavers to a .140 attack percentage, forcing 11 BSU hitting errors.
 
Ashley Rozell was serving up dimes for the Northern State front line, dishing out 48 total assists, and averaging 16.00 per set. The junior added eight digs, as well as one block and one kill. 
 
Jenna Reiff and Sally Gaul led the team with 12 kills apiece, while Laura Snyder and Hailey Busch each notched 11. Reiff was potent offensively, hitting a team high .750 without giving up an attack error. Snyder and Gaul followed hitting .563 and .500 respectively, while Busch hit at a .303 clip. Morgan Baufield added eight kills on 15 swings with just one hitting error for a .467 attack percentage.
 
Jaiden Langlie led the Wolves defense as the lone player in double figures, recording 11 total digs. She also added a team high two service aces. Alyssa Deobler was second on the team with eight digs, and added one ace. Baufield and Busch notched an ace each in the win, while Lexi Boesl rounded out the NSU defensive specialists with five digs.
 
Baufield led the team at the net with three blocks, including one solo stuff. Reiff was second on the team with one solo and one assisted block, while Rozell, Gaul, and Snyder notched a block each.
 
Northern will host the opening round of the NSIC Tournament on Tuesday, November 6. The Wolves earned the second seed in the NSIC Tournament (per league tiebreaker rules) and will face the seventh seed Mavericks of Minnesota State at 6 p.m. from Wachs Arena. Fans are reminded that NSIC tournament games are not included in their Wolves Club season ticket packs.