FULTON, Mo. - Westminster volleyball adds its 10th win of the season and fifth straight in a 3-1 victory over Spalding.

The Blue Jays improve to 10-8 on the year, including 9-1 in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. 

Westminster got out to a slow start over the Golden Eagles, immediately going down 4-0. The largest deficit they would face the entire was the 9-2 score early in the first set. Slowly, Westminster worked its way back into the game. A kill form Ashley Kistaitis finally tied the score at 20, and two more Kistaitis kills couipled with attack errors from the Eagles led to the set win for Westminster. 

The second set proved just as neck-and-neck as the first, with each team trading points until the Golden Eagles eventually won the set 26-24, tying the match at 1-1. 

The Blue Jays came out strong in the next two sets to keep the match to just four sets, winning the next two 25-16 after going up by double-digits in both. 

Both Hannah Marshall and Kistaitis earned double-digit kills, including 20 from Kistaitis. Marshall recorded 13. Kistaitis' 20 kill is second all-time in a four-set match. 

Teresa Becker led the team with 43 kills while Bridget Ringwald headed the defense with 19 digs.

Westminster remains at home to face MacMurray and Principia Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.