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SEATTLE – Another fifth game, but a different day – and a different volleyball outcome – for the Seattle Pacific Falcons.
 
Cailin Fellows and Shelby Swanson produced double-doubles for the second match in a row as SPU bounced back from being down two games to one and beat Northwest Nazarene in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match on Saturday afternoon, 3-2.
 
Scores in Brougham Pavilion were 25-22, 20-25, 25-27, 25-20, 15-11.
 




The Falcons (5-9, 2-3) were in their second five-gamer of the week, having fallen to Central Washington on Thursday. NNU (8-7, 2-4 GNAC) also played to the limit for the second straight time. The Crusaders came up short at Montana State Billings on Thursday.
 
“It felt so good to finally play well as a team together and pull out the win,” said senior setter Swanson (Kennewick, Wash. / Kamiakin HS), whose double-double was her sixth of the season and 23^rd of her career. “On Thursday, we dropped that last set because we made a few critical errors. But our hitting percentage (today) was in the 300s, and we only made two hitting errors – it was just a clutch performance in the fifth game.”
 
Added head coach Chris Johnson, “We felt good and calm about ourselves. Going into the fourth game (after NNU took the lead with a 27-25 victory in Game 3), we got back to the basic defense without all the extra adjustments we tried to make, because they weren't working that well. Then going into Game 5, we just knew we wanted it more and felt really good.”
 
SPU returns to the road next week, visiting Western Oregon on Thursday and Saint Martin's next Saturday.
 
Senior outside hitter Fellows (Edmonds, Wash. / Edmonds-Woodway HS) had 20 kills and a career-high 18 digs on Saturday. It was the second straight match she set a high for digs (she had 17 on Thursday), and she came within one of her career-high for kills. She now has four career double-doubles.
 
Junior middle blocker Nikki Lowell hammered 15 kills, tying her season high, hit .448, and had five block assists. Sophomore outside hitter Jessica Miller (Fife, Wash. / Fife HS) had 14 kills and hit .367, and sophomore middle blocker Madi Cavell (Keizer, Ore.), playing the final three games, had 13 kills.
 
Seattle Pacific hit for better than .300 in three of the five games, including .310 in the fifth. The Falcons finished at .249 for the match. Northwest Nazarene hit .216 for the match.
 




Except a 2-1 deficit and three ties, the last of those at 7-7, SPU led throughout the fourth game to get the match een again and force the decider.
 
In that one, the Falcons turned a 2-1 deficit into a 7-4 lead, saw Northwest Nazarene climb back to 7-7, then got a kill from Fellows for an 8-7 edge at the switchover. The Crusaders tied it at 8-8, but that was as close as they came. A kill by Lowell and a Northwest Nazarene hitting error put SPU on top at 10-8.
 
The Falcons stretched out to 14-10. NNU fought off one match point, but Cavell secured the win with a kill that deflected off of a Crusaders player.
 
“Both (times this week), we out-hit our opponent; both times, we played good defense,” Johnson said. “Tonight, we hit .310 in the fifth game with only 10 percent hitting errors. So when you're swinging that effectively on offense, it's tough to beat.”
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
Seattle Pacific 3, Northwest Nazarene 2
 
Game scores – 25-22, 20-25, 27-25, 25-20, 15-11.
 
Service aces – NNU 3 (3 players with 1), SPU 5 (Cailin Fellows 2, Breanne Wiekamp 2). Kills – NNU 66 (Becky Flores 20), SPU 72 (Fellows 20, Nikki Lowell 15, Jessica Miller 14, Madi Cavell 13). Assists – NNU 59 (Michelle Terpstra 43), SPU 69 (Shelby Swanson 58). Digs – NNU 94 (Linnea Phillips 32), SPU 106 (Swanson 27, Brianna Leenders 24, Fellows 18, Wiekamp 17). Block assists / solo – NNU 14 / 0 solo (Heather Allen 5 / 0), SPU 12 / 0 solo (Lowell 5 / 0). Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – NNU 66-22-204--.216 (Terpstra 13-1-36--.333), SPU 72-21-205--.249 (Lowell 15-2-29--.448). Attendance – 131.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 5-9, 2-3 GNAC. Northwest Nazarene 8-7, 2-4 GNAC.
 
Next match – Seattle Pacific at Western Oregon, Thursday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m.