ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The No. 20 Lewis University women's volleyball team clinched a share of the Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season title and earned the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament with a four set win (20-25, 25-16, 25-17, 25-12) over Missouri-St. Louis Saturday (Nov. 6).

With the win the Flyers move to 21-6 overall, 15-1 in the GLVC, while the Tritons snap their four-game winning streak and fall to 19-7 overall, 12-3 in the GLVC.

Lewis led by four midway through the opening set but couldn't overcome a 9-3 run from UMSL as it rallied to win the frame 25-20. Juliana Van Loo (Burbank, Calif./John Burroughs) paced the attack with seven kills while hitting .357 in the set.

The second stanza was even at 10 when the Flyers made their move going on an 11-3 run to build a 21-13 lead after a kill from Lauren Stenman (Maplewood, Minn./North St. Paul). The Tritons wouldn't get closer than six points the rest of the set as Lewis won the set 25-16 to even the match at a set apiece. Van Loo had seven kills against no errors in nine attacks while Ava Venema (Westmont, Ill./Timothy Christian) added four kills in the frame.

The Flyers raced out to an early four-point lead and never let UMSL get closer than two points in the swing set as Lewis led by as many as nine points on its way to a 25-17 set win. Juliana Van Loo (Burbank, Calif./John Burroughs) hit .875 in the stanza recording seven kills against zero errors in eight swings while Natalie Stefanski (Plainfield, Ill./Joliet West) added five kills and Megan Schlechte (Strasburg, Ill./Stewardson-Strasburg) chipped in with three kills.

The Flyers gave up the first two points of set four but after that it was all Lewis as it led by as many as 13 in the set and never let the Tritons get closer than five points after that early deficit. The Flyers hit .350 in the final frame recording 16 kills against two errors in 40 swings and were led by Van Loo and Schlecht with four kills apiece.

Van Loo led Lewis with a career-high 25 kills on a .478 hitting percentage (3 errors, 46 attacks), while Stefanski added 13 kills and 16 digs and Schlechte had nine kills and 14 digs. Stenman totaled 48 assists, 13 digs and five kills, while Jamie Poppen (Ballwin, Mo./Parkway West) had 32 digs and eight assists and Ally Hickey (Granger, Ind./Penn) added 13 digs.

For the match the Flyers had a .256 hitting percentage (64 kills, 18 errors, 180 attacks), while UMSL had a .110 hitting percentage (39-19-181). The Flyers outblocked the Tritons 20-4 for the match behind six blocks from Bella Ray (Plainfield, Ill./Joliet Catholic) and five from Venema.

The Flyers continue their roadtrip Friday (Nov. 12) against McKendree at 7 p.m.