OREM, Utah – The Utah Valley State volleyball team cruised to a three game sweep over Westminster College on Tuesday night, 30-27, 30-26, 30-22 in the Activity Center.

Jessica Endres pounded out 16 kills and hit .600, while fellow middle, Stephanie McFarland had 8 kills and hit .615. Lacee Koelliker, who was named Division I Independent "Setter of the Week," earlier in the day had 46 assists.

"We did what we had to do to be able to win which is good, but I expected performances like Jessica and Stephanie's out of everybody," said head coach Sam Atoa.

The Wolverines get back to .500 at 10-10 with the win and the Griffins fall to 13-11 and snap an eight game winning streak.

"It's good to be at .500 this late in the season," said Atoa. "That is something we haven't done over the last two seasons."

In game one, the Griffins stayed close most of the way, but ran out of breath in the end, due in part to a late Wolverine
4-1 run to close out the game 30-27. Camie Manwill led the Wolverine charge with six kills in the set, and Endres added four.

The Griffins took a 12-8 lead in game two, but let the Wolverines get back into the match by going on a 6-0 run to take a 14-12 advantage. The Griffins would fight back and make an 8-3 run of their own to retake the lead at 20-17, and force a UV timeout. The Wolverine offense would score nine out of the next twelve points, including five kills by Brooke Adams to get back in the set and take a 26-23 lead before Westminster called timeout. UV would cruise from that point to a 30-26 win. Endres had six kills in the set.

Game three was back-and-forth through the first half with the Wolverines holding on to a slim 19-17 lead. UV would extend that lead to 23-18 and pull away to 28-22, before closing the match with a 30-22 win in game three.

Utah Valley State will prepare the rest of this week to travel to Texas to take on fellow Division I Independents Texas-Pan American and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Wolverines play UTPA in Edinburg at 6:00 pm (MST) on Friday, October 28th and TAMUCC in Corpus Christ on Saturday at 6:00 pm (MST).