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The 18th-ranked Southern Oregon volleyball team took down Northwest University 25-12, 25-19, 22-25, 25-14 tonight at McNeal Pavilion.

Southern Oregon improved to 10-2 on the year and 4-1 in Cascade Conference play. Northwest fell to 4-9 overall and 3-1 in league action. The Raiders host Evergreen State Saturday night.

Leah Bergstrom (West Linn, Ore./West Linn) led SOU with 12 kills. Heather Porter (Coos Bay, Ore./Marshfield) and Chelsea Hartman (Lebanon, Ore./Lebanon) finished with nine kills and Megan Bartling (Medford, Ore./North Medford) and Leanne Stennett (Encinitas, Calif./San Dieguito) both had eight kills. Bartling had zero errors for the night and finished with three blocks, while Porter had a hand in eight.

The Raiders wasted little time in the first set, racing out to leads of 17-7 and 23-8, while hold the Eagles to a -.125 attack percentage. In the second set, SOU hit .250 to secure the victory, but the Eagles rallied in the third set, taking advantage of 10 SOU errors to force a fourth set.

In the fourth set, SOU again jumped out early with back-to-back kills by Bartling and Bergstrom for a 6-2 lead.

Hartman had a pair of kills as the Raiders pushed the lead to 16-9. Corynn Jorgensen (Roseburg, Ore./Roseburg) then served for eight straight points to extend the Raider advantage to 24-13 and Stennett ended the match with a kill.

Jorgensen, in her first game this year as the starting libero, had a match-high 28 digs and Angela Spieker (Bremerton, Wash./Central Kitsap) finished with 30 assists.