Box Score

BILLINGS, Mont. (Sept. 18) -- Outside hitters Kady Try (Brentwood, Calif./Mead HS) and Meg Ryan (Spokane/Mead HS) combined for 27 of Central Washington University's 39 kills as the Wildcat volleyball team cruised to a 3-0 sweep of host Montana State University Billings on Saturday night at Alterowitz Gym. Set scores were 25-20, 25-22, 25-9.

The sweep was just the second of the season for the Wildcats, who evened their Great Northwest Athletic Conference record at 2-2 while improving to 3-5 overall. MSU Billings remains winless at 0-10 (0-2 GNAC).

Try, who entered this week's play ranked among the NCAA Division II national leaders in kills per set, totaled 15 kills in Saturday's three-set affair to up her season average to 4.48 kills per set. She also hit at a sizzling .448 percentage and added two service aces and four assisted blocks.

Ryan, meanwhile, finished with 12 kills and was one of Central's defensive leaders with 12 digs. She also hit at an identical percentage as her Wildcat team -- .290 -- leading the way with 31 hitting attempts.

Central Washington was never really threatened in Saturday's victory, facing just two deficits the entire night -- at 1-0 in each of the first two sets. The Wildcats quickly rebounded from those early deficits to take the lead and capped each of the first two frames with service aces -- among their season-high 11 aces as a team.

In the third set, the Wildcats reeled off the first five points, and the duo of Try and Ryan had seven kills apiece in the frame, in building a 20-5 lead. After MSU Billings put together a brief 3-0 run, Central closed the match by scoring five of the final six points.

In addition to setting a season-high with 11 service aces, the Wildcats' .290 hitting percentage was also their best of the 2010 campaign.

CWU senior Brandie Vea (Honolulu, Hawaii/Kalani HS) led all players with 15 digs as the Wildcats had a 48-36 advantage in the dig department. Central also finished with 5 1/2 team blocks and setter Carlee Marble (La Conner) had 36 assists.

The Wildcats will return home for four straight home matches beginning Monday night (Sept. 20) with a non-conference counter against Walla Walla University. They will also host Northwest Nazarene University next week, facing the Crusaders on Saturday (Sept. 25). Both matches next week start at 7 p.m.