WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Led by the combined total of 21 kills from Stephanie Kerr and Erin Campbell, the visiting George Fox University Bruins picked up their first Northwest Conference women's volleyball victory of the season with a 3-0 win over the Whitman College Missionaries Saturday evening here at the Sherwood Center.

As a team, George Fox posted its best hitting percentage of the season in the 25-14, 25-23, 25-21 sweep.  The Bruins made 46 kills and only 19 errors in 106 attempts for a .255 mark, with four players hitting over .400 in the match.

The Bruins hit .429 as a team while holding the Missionaries to a .042 percentage in rolling to a big win in the first set, in which they never trailed.  The Bruins were steady throughout, never putting together a rally longer than four points but gradually pulling away.  Their largest lead was the final margin.

Whitman jumped to an 11-7 lead in the second set, but George Fox countered with six straight points, five of them behind the serves of setter Mackenzie Teigen, for a 13-11 edge.  The Missionaries battled back and built a 22-18 lead on a kill by Jazmin Moledina, but the Bruins recovered to notch seven of the next eight points to take the set.  Teigen served five more winning points in the rally, and two kills each by Kerr and Tiffany Burk did the major offensive damage.

George Fox bolted to a 7-2 lead in the third set, two kills and a block by Kylee Adderson alongside Kerr leading the way.  Whitman struck back behind two kills by Moledina and one each by Courtney Brewer, Maddy Bell, Rachel Shober and Megan Bafus to take a 12-11 lead.  After ties at 16-16 and 20-20, Kerr tallied her final two kills to spark a four-point run before Campbell hit the match-clinching winner.

Kerr had 11 kills and Campbell 10 to pace the Bruins, with .400+ hitters including Patti Reeves (.600, three kills, no errors, five attempts), Adderson (.600, 4-1-5), Kerr (.421, 11-3-19), and Cassie Irwin (.417, 7-2-12).  Teigen handed out 24 assists and Chelsea Wilson had 10. The Bruins also got 13 digs from Reeves and 12 more from Campbell in fashioning a 45-34 margin in that department.

Moledina was the only Missionary in double-figure kills with 10.  Taylor Aschenbrenner distributed 25 assists, while Annie Sing led the defense with 10 digs.  Bafus had six block assists and Olivia Nielson four in the Missionaries' 11 team blocks.  Whitman again played without their top two kills leaders from last year, Jillian Davis and Carrie Cecil, who are both out with injuries.

NEXT: George Fox (6-5, NWC 1-1) visits Lewis & Clark College Friday for a 7:00 p.m. match.  It will be the Bruins' second meeting with the Pioneers this season but first in conference play, George Fox having taken a 3-1 win over the Pios on Sept. 3 in the Northwest Invitational Tournament that was hosted by L&C ... Whitman (1-7, NWC 0-2) visits Willamette University Friday at 7:00 p.m.