All season, Northwestern has shown flashes of excellence. This week, in its matchups against conference opponents Maryland and Minnesota, we continued to see those positives. Julia Sangiacomo and Alexa Rousseau continued to shine, and the ‘Cats repeatedly demonstrated how gritty of a team they can be. After dominating the last few sets to take their first game of the weekend against Maryland, Northwestern fell in heartbreaking fashion to Minnesota. With this weekend’s results, they stay at the .500 mark on the season, and move to 3-5 in conference play.

‘Cats storm back against Terps for 3-1 victory

On a dark and stormy Friday the thirteenth, Northwestern took on Maryland in hopes of warding off any ‘bad luck’ and earning their first home conference win of the season.