MINOT, N.D. – The Minot State University volleyball team wasn't able to salvage its weekend as they dropped their second of two matches on the weekend to the visiting Wayne State College Wildcats. The Wildcats won the match in straight sets, 3-0.

"Wayne played a great match tonight," Beavers' head coach Travis Ward said. "We pushed them a little bit in set two and played a really nice opening start to the third but just couldn't seem to get any of those rallies to fall our way."

After starting the match slow in the first set, dropping it 25-12, the Beavers showed more life in the second set as they fell 25-20. The Beavers cut into the lead and got as close as three points from tying it up late in the match at 21-18, but the Wildcats pulled away to take the set.

The final set started off close with the teams tied at two apiece, but the Wildcats won four consecutive points, all on long rallies, and got a strong grip of the final set.

"That was obviously deflating," Ward said. "I think it was like 15-6 at the end of [their run]. We played a lot of really good rallies in that stretch, though, and we needed to get a couple of them and unfortunately we didn't."

Wayne State went on to win the final set 25-12.

Jen Dixon (Sr., OH, Brandon, Manitoba) led the way for the Beavers with 12 kills. She recorded eight kills in the second set and was the only Beaver to finish with a hitting percentage above .100.

Mallory Sall (Jr., OH, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia) ended the evening with nine kills while Lauren Dunkle (So., OH, Aurora, Colo.) ended with five and Tarah Dabovich (Jr., MH, Phoenix, Ariz.) and Shaunessy Dauwalder (So., OH, Stanley, N.D.) each had two kills.

Elizabeth Gebhardt recorded a team-high 13 kills for Wayne State.

The Beavers move to 4-14 on the season and 2-8 in the Northern Sun. Wayne State improves to 9-1 in the conference and 16-2 overall.

Minot State is back at home on Tuesday, Oct. 14 when they welcome the No. 24 ranked Northern State Wolves to the Minot State Dome at 7 p.m.