By: Burke De Boer
Sports Editor

Wolves volleyball suffered two losses at home, including a nail-biting five sets against ranked Western Washington.

The Thursday match was against Simon Fraser, who came into the game with an 11-2 record. Wolves quickly shocked the visitors and surged to a 25-14 set. Simon Fraser regrouped and won the next three sets. Each set was competitive, as the Wolfpack lost by margins of 22-25, 19-25, 19-25.

Western Washington came into the game favored but Wolves put up a strong effort to force five sets. After losing a rough first set 13-25 the Wolves rallied. Momentum swung between sets, and within sets as well as the teams gained and lost leads on each other.

The Wolves faced five potential match points at the end of the fifth set before falling, 15-11.

Alisha Bettinson had a double-double, with 20 kills and 16 digs. Christie Colasudro had 22 digs as well. Colasudro was also the defensive star of the Simon Fraser game, putting up 29 digs, one of four Wolves to get double digit digs in the game. Bettinson also put up 16 while Makenna Bahrens had 11 digs and Libbie Hoene 10.

Volleyball goes on the road for the next two weeks but will be back on Oct. 20 to host St. Martin’s. The Wolves defeated St. Martin’s in their first matchup earlier this year.

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