SALT LAKE CITY— Junior outside hitter Sydney Leffler put down a team-high 13 kills and hit at an errorless .591 efficiency rate while redshirt junior setter Sabrina VanDeList doled out 39 assists as the nation's 11^th-ranked Colorado Mesa University volleyball team rolled to a perfect 11-0 record with a 25-19, 25-19, 25-14 sweep of Westminster University on Tuesday night in the Griffins' Behnken Fieldhouse.
 
The Mavericks have now won the last five matches in straight sets and will take a half-match lead in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference standings heading into what could be an epic clash with 2-time defending RMAC Champion MSU Denver, ranked eighth in the latest national poll and riding a 42-match RMAC winning streak, on Friday night in the Mavs' Browson Arena.
 
CMU is now 3-0 in RMAC play while MSU Denver, 7-3 overall, sports a 2-0 conference mark.
 
The Mavs won the 2021 spring season conference title with a perfect regular season record, including a win over the Roadrunners, who then started their impressive conference run after falling to the Mavs on Mar. 4, 2021.
 
The Griffins are now 3-8 overall and 1-2 in conference play after Tuesday's home loss.
 
Taking care of business to close out a 3-match in 5-day road swing in Tuesday's win, the Mavericks hit a .392 as a team as five different Maverick hitter combined for seven or more kills while all five hit at a .280 or higher clip.
 
The Mavs put down 47 kills as a team and made just seven hitting errors, four of which were on Griffin blocks in the highly efficient sweep.
 
Maverick redshirt senior middle hitter Savannah Spitzer, the RMAC's Offensive Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks, also finished in double figures with ten kills while also hitting .389.  meanwhile, Riley Daugherty had eight kills and nine digs on the outside while both Emma Shaddix and Aesha Alrashed finished with seven kills.  Alrashed needed just nine swings to do so and hit .667 in the middle while Shaddix hit .294.  Both chipped in three blocks.
 
Defensively, libero Allison Waller tallied a match-high 15 digs as the reigning RMAC Defensive Player of the Week.  Defensive specialists Hahni Johnson and Jordan Wooda also chipped in six as the VanDeList, who tallied a season-high three service aces.  Woods also had two while Johnson had the other for CMU.
 
The Griffins were led by 14 Olivia Curtis kills but could not keep pace with the Mavs as the hosts hit .221 as a team.
 
The Mavs trailed 10-9 early in the first set but went on a 7-1 run to gain control and a 16-11 lead before going on to win the opening frame despite hitting a still solid .273.
 
The Mavs then hit at a .531 clip in the second set, committing just one hitting error while putting down 18 kills on just 32 attempts.  They did trail 6-2 but went on a 6-2 run of their own to tie the score at 8 before later going on a 5-0 run to take a 17-13 lead and control
 
They then served five aces while hitting .423 in the third set, scoring five straight points after a set-opening Griffin kill.  The Mavs then finished the match by scoring the final six points, a spurt that was triggered by two Daugherty kills.  Johnson also had an ace in the run.

The Mavs have now won 15 straight decisions over the Griffins, a streak that dates back to 2015.