NW Briefs | SPU volleyball sweeps Saints

Alyssa Given stroked her way into history Thursday night, serving up three aces and 16 kills en route to a Seattle Pacific sweep of Saint Martin's in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match at Brougham Pavilion.

In front of a home crowd for the first time in more than two weeks, the Falcons (10-9, 5-6 GNAC), made short work of the Saints, 30-25, 30-24, 30-25.

Given eclipsed Gaylene MacDonald's school mark for aces in a season in the third game, raising her season total to 60. Four more aces will give Given the GNAC career record as well, held by Seattle University's Erika Brunson (182).

Angie Wodrich added 17 kills and 10 digs for SPU.

Shealun Campisi led SMU (2-10, 2-10) with 10 kills.

Other volleyball

Seattle University took advantage of several mistakes by Alaska Fairbanks, notching nine service aces while making only three attack errors in the third game to sweep the Nanooks 30-26, 30-28, 30-27 at the Connolly Center.

Jamie Mellies had 31 assists, Nikole Thompson had a team-high 11 kills, and Libby Graff had four service aces for the Redhawks (9-11, 6-6 GNAC).

• Maureen Perez had 41 assists and Tara West had 15 kills, but Washington State (9-13, 0-8 Pac-10) fell 30-25, 20-30, 30-24, 30-18 to USC in Pullman.

• Angie Alvord had a match-high eight blocks and shared match-high honors with 12 kills as Western Washington (15-4, 11-1 GNAC) took a 30-14, 30-15, 30-22 victory over Central Washington in Bellingham.

Rachel Schurman led the Wildcats (8-13, 6-5) with 11 kills.

• Ashley Hamilton had a career-high 43 assists as Eastern Washington (7-13, 6-3 Big Sky) beat Idaho State 29-31, 30-20, 30-26, 32-30 in Pocatello, Idaho.

• Briawna Mueller had three kills in the decisive fifth game to help Gonzaga earn a 30-25, 30-32, 30-21, 22-30, 15-10 victory over host San Francisco. It was the fourth straight win for the Bulldogs (15-7, 3-3 West Coast Conference).

Men's soccer

Alex Ponce scored twice to lead Concordia to a 2-0 victory over Northwest University (5-9, 4-7 Cascade Conference) in Kirkland.

Women's soccer

Freshmen Ellie Eckroth and Amanda Biggs each scored in the final 5:41 of regulation to pull Central Washington (6-8-3, 3-6-1 GNAC) into a 2-2 tie with Northwest Nazarene in Ellensburg.

Notes

• Washington men's soccer forward Kevin Forrest was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, given in several sports to an athlete who excels not only on the field but in the classroom, character and community service.

• Washington State quarterback Alex Brink has been named a Draddy Award semifinalist and a candidate for The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame National Scholar-Athlete Awards.

The Draddy Award recognizes an individual as the best in the country for his combined academic success, football performance and community leadership.

• Abby Jensen (women's soccer, 3.89 grade-point average, criminal justice) and Fritz Brayton (football, 3.14, business administration) were the Eastern Washington athletic department's scholar-athletes for September.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.