DENVER – The No. 25-ranked University of West Florida volleyball team (4-2, 0-0 GSC) defeated Missouri S&T 3-1 (25-11, 22-25, 25-22, 25-21) before falling to No. 13 Ferris State by a score of 0-3 (22-25, 15-25, 11-25) on Friday afternoon at the Colorado Premier Challenge. West Florida will compete in the silver bracket tomorrow against Regis University on their home floor at Noon MT.

"I don't think we played great this afternoon," head coach Melissa Wolter said. "In that first match I felt like somehow we played well at the right time. I felt like Autumn had a great afternoon today and in that first match, she really played like a fifth year senior. She played like a veteran captain.
 
"But then you come into this match tonight, and Ferris State is really good. They are very physical, they have a lot of weapons. I felt like we had a really good game plan but at crucial moments we were very error prone, and you can't play like that against a team that's as balanced as Ferris State is. We just got outplayed tonight."

No. 25 West Florida 3, Missouri S&T 1
 
West Florida got out to a quick start against Missouri S&T taking the first set by a score of 25-11 behind a team attacking percentage of .517. UWF junior Cora Bidlack (Randolph, N.J./Randolph HS) had five kills on six swings in the first set (.833) while fellow junior Kathryn Torre (Highland, Ill./State College of Florida) had four kills on four swings (1.000) and two blocks.
 
Missouri S&T got out to a 8-2 lead in the second set to respond after hitting only .033 in the opening set. The Miners would hold a three point lead for the majority of the second set before UWF cut the lead to two points late in the second at 21-19. Missouri S&T would go on to close out the second set on a 4-2 run to take the set by a score of 25-21.
 
Both teams had a rough third set offensively as the Argonauts tallied eight attack errors while the Miners tallied nine. UWF senior Autumn Duyn (Venice, Fla./Venice HS) paced the Argos with seven kills on 11 attempts in the third set to lead West Florida to a 25-22 win.
 
UWF's offense returned to form in the fourth set as the Argos tallied 17 kills with only two attack errors behind Duyn's five kills. Junior Corisha Smith (Inwood, W.Va./Musselman HS) had back-to-back service aces early in the fourth set and also had four kills at a .500 clip to help the Argonauts clinch the fourth set and the match by a score of 25-21.
 
Duyn was one kill shy of tying her career mark for kills in a match, as the senior tallied 20 kills at an impressive .459 clip. The Venice, Florida native also had 19 digs in the match.
 
Sophomore Monique StCyr (Williamsburg, Va./Jamestown HS) had a career-high 53 assists in the win four kills and a pair of blocks while junior Tori Martella (Jacksonville, Fla./Providence HS) led the team with 21 digs.
 
No. 13 Ferris State 3, No. 25 West Florida 0
 
A series of offensive runs by No. 13 Ferris State led the Bulldogs to a three-set sweep over the Argonauts on Friday night. FSU put together a 10-0 run in the second set and a 12-3 run to start the third set to overwhelm the UWF defense.
 
West Florida stayed close with Ferris State in a first set that saw the score tied 11 times and included three lead changes. UWF had 16 kills as a team at a .208 team attacking percentage in the opening set.
 
Junior Holly Mattmuller (Venice, Fla./Venice HS) had eight kills and a pair of blocks in the win and also led the Argonauts with 12 digs.
 
West Florida will face Regis on Saturday, September 12 at Noon MT in the silver bracket.
 
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