Box Score
Season Statistics

The Lady Blues had 11 different players get kills as they swept Missouri Southern, 25-11, 25-21, 25-11 Tuesday night in Lee Arena. No. 7 Washburn improved to 28-3 and 13-3 in the MIAA.

The Lady Blues will return to action Friday at 7 p.m. at Southwest Baptist.

Monica Miesner and Mollie Lacy led the offense with seven kills each. Breanna Lewis had five off the bench and three others had four, including setter Kate Hampson, who had four kills in four tries.

Hampson set 29 assists and Miesner led the defense with nine digs. The Lady Blues blocked nine shots with Stephanie Nitz getting in on five of them.

Washburn hit .233 as a team and held the Lions to a -.032 percentage.

The Lady Blues used an early 7-0 run in the first set to lead 7-2. They built the lead to 10 on two straight kills from Caitlin Conley that made the score 16-6 and then the Lady Blues ended on a 3-0 run to clinch the set.

The second set was tied five times, the last at 11-11. WU went on a 6-0 run to go up but the Lions fought back and got within two at 22-20. Lewis' kill forced set point at 24-21 and then WU won the set on an MSSU error.

MSSU hit -.174 in the third set and Washburn hit .474 to run away with the clincher.

Miesner's seven kills moved her into a tie for fourth in school history with 1,511 career kills. She tied All-American and current student assistant coach Tessa Jones and she's 15 away from third.