DENVER—  Pin hitters Sierra Hunt and Sydney Leffler both recorded 12 kills while Nicole Martin added another 11 from the middle on .588 hitting as the Colorado Mesa University Maverick volleyball team extended its winning streak to ten with a 25-22, 25-21, 25-20 win over Regis University in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Power Pod match-up on Friday night here at MSU Denver's Auraria Event Center.
 
The Mavericks, who improved to 18-3 overall, also recorded their third straight set sweep and swept the season series with the Rangers (11-11), holding them to a .084 hitting percentage.
 
Unlike the Mavs' 4-set win at Regis just 13 days earlier, Friday's match did not count in the RMAC standings, but was still an important regional victory that set up a showdown between the RMAC's two nationally ranked teams on Saturday afternoon, when the 16^th-ranked Mavs will take on national poll No. 1 MSU Denver (20-1), which has won 14 straight matches, including a 3-0 win over Regis on Thursday.
 
In Friday's RMAC Power Pod win, CMU hit .227 as a squad as setter Sabrina VanDeList recorded 39 assists along with a pair of service aces.  Libero Allison Waller recorded 14 digs as she led a Maverick back-row that frustrated the Rangers, who were guilty of 21 hitting errors.
 
CMU committed 20 but also had a big 42-29 team advantage in kills to overcome nine Rangers blocks.
 
Leffler was strong in the first set, recording half of her 12 kills, including one at 19-18 that trigged a key 4-0 Maverick run.  A Hunt kill, a VanDeList service ace and Leffler and Stormi Tadlock block also figured into that spurt, which put CMU ahead 23-18.
 
A point later, the Rangers' Amelia Davis, one of the nation's top blockers, then figured into back-to-back rejections forcing the Mavericks into a timeout, clinging to a 23-21 lead.  Leffler then came out of the timeout with another kill before Hunt answered a Lindsey Cure kill for the Rangers to close out the set.
 
The second set was also tight and was never spread by more than three points before a 4-1 Maverick run that featured three straight Ranger hitting errors allowed CMU to go ahead 21-16 before going on to close out the set on a Hunt kill several rallies later.
 
Hunt and Martin then took over the match in the third set as each recorded six kills in the final frame, which the Rangers never led.  Martin, the reigning RMAC Offensive Player of the Week hit at a perfect 1.000 clip in that set while Hunt was guilty of just one error while hitting .625 in the third set to finish the night with a .333 clip.
 
The Mavericks have now won four straight regular season match-ups against the Rangers and four out of the last five overall.