Bashed by Beavers

Game Scores	1	2	3	4	5	Records
Northern State	21	14	26			3-14, 0-4 NSIC
Bemidji State	30	30	30			5-8, 2-2 NSIC

BEMIDJI, Minn. - The Beavers of Bemidji State swept the Wolves Saturday 3-0 (30-21, 30-14, 30-26) at the BSU Gymnasium. The loss drops the Wolves to 3-14 overall and 0-4 in the NSIC.

The Wolves and Beavers were neck-and-neck for most of the first game but after trailing 9-8, BSU would take advantage of three Wolves miscues to take the lead for good. BSU scored nine of the final 14 points to close the game out and take an early 1-0 lead in the match.

Game two was all Bemidji State as the Beavers would jump out to an 11-3 lead and never look back. With a 25-14 advantage, BSU scored the final five points of the game consecutively to win the game 30-14 and take a 2-0 lead.

The Wolves, however, would not lay down for the beavers mounting quite a comeback in game three. Trailing 3-1 early, the Wolves scored seven of the next eight points to force a BSU time out. BSU would respond to tie the game 12-12 but the Wolves would continue to pull ahead and stay in the lead until a BSU time out at 24-21. BSU went on a 9-2 scoring run out of the time out, winning the game (30-26), the match (3-0) and extending the Wolves losing streak to eight while the team has failed to win a single game during that span.

The Wolves allowed a season-high 14 services aces by the Beavers to their seven. The Wolves hitting was awful again as they finished with a -.009 hitting percentage after posting 26 kills, 27 errors on 115 total attempts.

Wolves falls to 3-14 overall and 0-4 in league play, while the victory boots Bemidji State's overall record to 5-8 while the team is 2-2 in NSIC play.