St. Cloud, Minn. – The top ranked Northern State University volleyball team made quick work of St. Cloud State on Friday evening, handing the Huskies their first NSIC loss of the season. Northern swept St. Cloud with set scored of 25-20, 25-14, and 25-20, improving to 14-0 overall and 6-0 in the NSIC. The Wolves currently sit atop the league standings, alongside No. 2 Concordia-St. Paul.
 
Collectively, the Wolves tallied 44 kills, 59 digs, six blocks, and one ace in the win, hitting .272 as a team. St. Cloud State on the other hand, recorded 34 kills, 54 digs, three blocks, and one ace. Northern hit a match high .419 in the second set with 16 combined kills.
 
Hailey Busch and Jenna Reiff led the team and the match as the only players in double figures offensively. Busch tallied 15 kills, hitting a team high .424 with just one attack error. Reiff added 11 kills, hitting .333, while the duo each recorded two block assists defensively. Laura Snyder was third on the team with seven kills, followed by Sally Gaul and Morgan Baufield with five and four respectively.
 
Ashley Rozell rounded out the Wolves offense with two kills, while dishing out 37 assists. The junior tallied a double-double with ten digs as well. The defense was led however by Jaiden Langlie with 19 digs, averaging 6.33 per set. Langlie also grabbed the lone ace of the evening for NSU. Bry Goar nearly broke into double figures, with nine digs, while Lexi Boesl and Busch each tallied eight. Baufield and Snyder led the team at the net with three blocks apiece.
 
With nearly a third of the NSIC season behind them, the Wolves lead the NSIC in hitting percentage (.350), opponent hitting percentage (.057), opponent assists per set (8.05), opponent kills per set (8.58), opponent blocks (0.84), opponent service aces (0.63), and opponent digs per set (12.11).
 
Northern faces off against No. 9 Minnesota Duluth tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. from Romano Gymnasium. The match will be their second top-25 contest of the 2018 season.