SALT LAKE CITY - Despite missing its primary setter due to injury, Westminster (2-7, 0-2 RMAC) came out firing and had a match-high .294 attack percentage to help win the first set, 25-23, before 11th-ranked Colorado School of Mines answered back to win the match, 3-1, on Saturday at the Behnken Field House.

Westminster put the No. 11 team in the nation on its heels early as the Griffins used a pair of aces and pair of Lydia Parkinson (Miller) kills to jump ahead 5-0.  The Griffins would begin the set on a 12-2 run before the Orediggers were able to string together back-to-back points but CSM would regain momentum to even the set at 19-19.

Olivia Curtis entered the match late in the first and immediately helped take over with a kill to put WC ahead 20-19 and later finished off the set with a kill to give Westminster a 25-23 first-set victory.

Colo. School of Mines reversed the script in the second set, jumping out to an 11-0 lead before the Griffins finally responded with a quick 6-2 run.  The Orediggers would not let up, however, finishing with a .414 attack percentage en route to a 25-11 second-set win.

The third frame went back-and-forth early but at 15-15, CSM used a 6-1 run behind the offensive firepower of Taylor Hicken to go up 21-16.  CSM would go up 2-0 in the match after a series of Westminster errors late in the third.  Westminster made a late run in the fourth, but CSM controlled the final frame, closing out the match with a 25-14 win.

The Griffins will continue a stretch of five-consecutive home matches next Thursday as they host Adams State beginning at 6 p.m.

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