The Northwest Missouri State University volleyball team fell to Central Missouri, 3-1, on Tuesday at the Multipurpose Building in Warrensburg, Mo.

– The Bearcats finish the season with a 17-15 overall mark, earning the MIAA Tournament’s No. 5 seed.

– Central Missouri advances to the semifinal round which will be held in Kearney, Neb., starting on Friday.

– The Jennies, who came into the match ranked No. 18 in the AVCA poll, improve to 25-7 overall.

– Northwest has now qualified for the MIAA Tournament during all five seasons under head coach Amy Woerth. The tournament was not held in 2014.

– Maddy Bruder, who was named a unanimous First Team All-MIAA performer earlier in the day, finished with 16 kills, 12 digs, two assists, one block and one service ace.

Key Northwest Statistics
– The Bearcats won the first set, 25-21, but fell in the next three by scores of 25-22, 25-15 and 25-19.

– Northwest hit .199 for the match as a team with five service aces and eight total blocks.

– Morgan Lewis hit .429 for the match, tallying 11 kills with three blocks.

– Olivia Nowakowski had 19 digs and three assists.

– Maddy Ahrens added 13 digs to go along with her 15 assists and two service aces.

– Darcy Sunderman had six kills with seven digs, two service aces and a block.

– Sarah Dannettell picked up 22 assists with three digs and two kills.

– Sofia Schleppenbach and Hallie Sidney each had four blocks defensively for Northwest.

Key Northwest Sequence
– With the match tied, 18-18, Morgan Lewis and Sunderman had back-to-back kills to give the Bearcats a two-point lead. UCM would get a point back on a kill but Sunderman came up with a service ace and Bruder added a kill to make it 22-19. The Jennies got another point back but Lewis had another kill to force a UCM timeout. Schleppenbach had a block to give Northwest set point, 24-20, on the next sequence. The Jennies made it 24-21 with a kill from Audrey Fisher but Sunderman finished off the set with a kill off an assist from Dannettell.

— Northwest Athletics —