CHADRON, Neb.— Maddi Foutz recorded 13 kills and 18 digs to lead all players as she paced the fifth-ranked Colorado Mesa University volleyball team to a 3-1 (25-22, 20-25, 25-17, 25-21) Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference win at Chadron State College on Sunday afternoon.  The Mavericks, now 8-0 overall and 5-0 in the RMAC, also received 12 kill efforts from freshman Gabrielle Vogt and Sierra Hunt to record their 26th straight win over the Eagles (2-3, 1-2 RMAC) since 1995.

The Mavericks are now 8-0 to begin a season for the first time since 1994 and have their first 8-match winning streak since Sept. 3-17, 2016.
 
Hunt, receiving her first extended playing time of the season, also had three blocks and hit .360 to lead the Mavericks, who were held to a season-low .153 percentage.
 
However, the Maverick defense was strong as they still out-hit the Eagles (.099) by 54 points while tallying nine blocks, just one shy of a season-high.
 
Foutz, who set a new career-high for digs in Sunday's match, now has five double-doubles to her credit this spring.  She also had three service aces.
 
Freshman setter Sabrina VanDeList had 22 assists and nine digs while senior counterpart Ara Norwood had 19 assists as CMU's secondary setter in the Mavs' 6-2 offensive attack.  They also combined for three service aces.  Libero Emily Tucker added a dozen digs from the back row.
 
The Mavericks trailed 17-15 in the first set but went on a 5-1 run to take a 20-18 lead as the Eagles committed two ball handling errors around a Savannah Spitzer block, Foutz kill and VanDeList service ace.
 
The Eagles would pull within one on three separate occasions in the rest of the set including at 23-233 on a block before a Vogt smash, one of her five first-set kills, and Ara Norwood service ace gave the Mavericks the opening set.
 
The Mavericks were then guilty of 11 total and eight unforced errors and hit .000 in the second set as the Eagles used a 6-0 run to break open an 18-12 lead before cruising to the 5-point win which leveled the match at the intermission.
 
However, the Mavericks got things rolling offensively in the third and fourth sets as they hit .259 and .226 in the final two frames, respectively.  Hunt had six kills and hit .417 in the third set as the Mavericks responded from a call reversal to go on a 10-3 extended run to build a 20-11 lead, equal to the largest of the afternoon while cruising to the third set win.
 
In the fourth, the Mavericks used a 4-0 run thanks to three straight Eagle misfires and a VanDeList ace to take a 14-10 lead.  Spitzer then came up with a block coming out of a timeout to put the Mavericks up 15-10 before the Eagles responded with a 4-0 spurt of their own to get back to within 15-14 and force a Maverick timeout.
 
The Mavericks then routinely traded two points for one down the stretch finishing the match off on kills by Foutz and Kerstin Layman.
 
Sunday's match was a make-up from the originally scheduled Feb. 6 affair and came on the back-end of a 3-match weekend after the Mavericks claimed a pair of Saturday wins over Fort Lewis and host South Dakota Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota.
 
The Mavericks' indoor squad will be off this week before returning to the floor on Thursday, Mar. 4 when they will host a RMAC pod with UCCS and currently fourth-ranked MSU Denver, the only other undefeated team in the RMAC thus far in 2021.
 
However, several Maverick players will travel to Phoenix next Friday and Saturday to begin the beach volleyball season at Grand Canyon University's Canyon Classic.