DENVER— Outside hitters Sadie Scoville and Emma Luce both finished with eight kills but were not enough for the Colorado Mesa University volleyball team, which fell in three sets to South Dakota Mines on Halloween in a neutral-site Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Power Pod match-up here in MSU Denver's Auraria Event Center.
 
The Hardrockers, paced by a combined 25 kills from Lexi Glendenning and Morgan Daugherty, improved to 8-13 with their third straight and fourth win in their last five while the Mavericks dropped to 13-9 with their fourth straight defeat.
 
Glendinning had 13 kills and hit .344 while Daugherty finished with 12 kills on .625 hitting.  She also added four block assists as the Hardrockers tallied eight blocks as a team.
 
Scoville also had 11 digs and three blocks In the Mavs' effort while freshman setter Ashlyn Tafoya tallied 28 assists and five digs while matching her season-high with six kills on just eight attack attempts, good for a personal .625 attack percentage.

Defensively, CMU's Aesha Alrashed finished with five blocks while libero Allison Waller had eight digs.
 
The Hardrockers hit .306 as a team and tallied nine service aces while holding the Mavs to just two aces and a .163 team attack percentage.
 
South Dakota Mines seized early momentum with a 5-0 run to take a 16-10 lead in the first set and later extended the lead to 21-14 on one of Ivy Vindivich's five serve aces.
 
The Mavs did recover and went on a 6-2 spurt of their own to close to within three at 23-20 before two of Glendinning's five opening-set kills ended the frame.
 
The Mavs then battled in the second set and had a 23-22 lead on a Marli Clausi service ace but gave up the next two points.
 
Tafoya then fought off the first of what would be first of four Hardrocker set points with a kill.  Luce then stopped two more South Dakota match points with kills that tied the set at 25 and 26.
 
However, Maria Bouman registered a kill for the Hardrockers before serving an ace to give her team a 2-set lead.
 
The Mavs did get out to a 6-5 lead on a 3-0 run in the third set but watched the Hardrockers roll from there as they scored 17 of the next 23 points to build a 22-12 lead en route to the victory.
 
South Dakota Mines hit an errorless .516 in the final set.
 
The Mavericks will return to official conference play and to their home court next weekend hosting Chadron State in their Parent's Night match on Friday at 6 p.m. in Grand Junction.