Box Score (Aurora, Ill.) – The Missouri S&T volleyball team dropped its second match on Friday to Northwood, 3-0 (19-25, 24-26, 18-25) at the Great Lakes Center in Aurora, Ill. Just like in its first match against Grand Valley on Friday, S&T (13-7) had problems containing the Timberwolves (15-4) offense in the nightcap.

Northwood held a 5-4 advantage early in the match before a 5-1 run put them in front 10-5. The Miners trailed 13-7 before scoring five straight points to get within a point. Hayley Wright (Omaha, Neb./Millard West) had a pair of kills in the run. The Timberwolves pushed their lead back to five at 17-12 behind back-to-back kills from Kristin Perschon and two straight aces from Juliia Pakhomenko. S&T again cut into the deficit cutting it to two points at 18-16, but would get no closer as Northwood ended the set by scoring seven of the final 10 points.

In the second set there was only one lead bigger than a point until the end. The Miners held a 20-18 advantage after a ball handling error was called on Jordan Dunn. The 'Wolves responded scoring four of the next five points to take a 22-21 lead. The two sides then traded service errors over the next three serves as Northwood continued to hold a 23-22 edge. Northwood grabbed a 24-23 lead on a kill by Pakhomenko. A block by Krista Haslag (Linn, Mo./Helias ) tied it back up at 24-all, but Pakhomenko and Ally Hoomaian recorded back-to-back kills to end the set 26-24 in favor of the Timberwolves.

The third set played out exactly like the first two with the two sides trading points. Northwood held an 18-17 advantage and ended the match by scoring seven of the final eight points to win 25-18.

S&T hit .237 percent for the match and was led by Wright with nine kills. Julie Meyer (Marthasville, Mo./St. Francis Borgia) added seven more while Haslag contributed six kills. Jennifer Costello (St. Louis, Mo./Parkway South ) had 31 assists while Jocelyn DeMotte (Topeka, Kan./Hayden) had 15 digs.

The Timberwolves hit .325 percent and was led by Perschon and Pakhomenko had 13 kills apiece while Hoomaian added 11 more.

Dunn had 40 assists while Erin Hoomaian led four players in double figures digs with 13.

The Miners are back in action on Saturday afternoon against Hillsdale beginning at 1 p.m.