SPOKANE, Wash. – Whitworth University rolled past visiting Pacific University in about 75 minutes with a three-set sweep of the visiting Boxers in a Northwest Conference women's volleyball match in the Whitworth Fieldhouse.  Friday night's contest played out much differently than last month's five-set, come-from-behind thriller that Whitworth won 16-14 in the fifth game on the road in Oregon.

Kaity Barr had a match-high 13 points for the Pirates (12-7 overall, 9-2 NWC), who won their fifth straight with the 25-13, 25-18, 25-10 win over the Boxers (5-15, 1-10).

Whitworth never trailed in the first set, steadily pulling away with consistent play.  Consecutive kills by Cassidy Franklin gave the Bucs an early 7-3 lead and a kill from Amblessed Okemgbo made it 16-7.  Whitworth got the final two points of the game on Boxer attack errors.  Franklin had five kills in the set and the Pirates hit .290 as a team.  Pacific hit .000 with only seven kills to offset seven errors.

The second set featured five ties and a lead change in the early going.  The Boxers scored the first two points for their only lead of the match before Whitworth answered with three straight, capped by an ace from Barr.  There were four more ties along the way, the final coming at 13-13 on a kill from Pacific's Anneke Hanson.  The Pirates responded with a 7-2 run to take control and Barr's kill finished off the game.  Whitworth hit .370 in the set.

Whitworth opened the final set with a 7-0 lead, including three straight kills from Okemgbo, before Pacific pulled within 10-7 on a Pirate setting error.  The Pirates put the game, and the match, away with a 10-1 run, going up 20-8 after a kill from Logan Spencer and a Boxer setting error.  The contest ended on Lauryn Penner's service ace. 

Barr totaled nine kills without an error, hitting .818 in the match.  She added an ace, one solo block and four block assists for her 13.0 points.   Franklin also had nine kills and hit .615, while Okemgbo put away seven kills.  Josephine Thompson (18) and Mya Rodriguez (14) combined for 32 assists and each had an ace.  Whitworth finished the match with a .307 hitting percentage.

Mara Murphy had a match-high 11 kills for Pacific, more than half of the team's total of 20.  The Boxers hit -.013 in the contest. 

The Pirates will host George Fox on Saturday in a contest between teams tied for second place in the NWC standings.