NAMPA, Idaho – With the students clad in white, the Saturday night turned out pretty bright for the Northwest Nazarene volleyball team.

Rallying out of a deep first-set hole against Seattle Pacific, the Crusaders took control of the match and rolled to a 25-21, 25-17, 23-25, 25-15 win in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play in front of 400 cheering fans on White-Out Night at the Johnson Sports Center.

"I'm really proud of how we are playing," NNU coach Doug English said. "Tonight was a dream match: just executing good, clean volleyball, and everybody's contributing."

The win was the third straight for NNU (10-4 overall, 6-2 GNAC), and puts the Crusaders firmly in control of third place in the league race approaching the midway point in the GNAC season.

And it truly was a team effort as four players had double-digit kills – Elayna Rice (12), Andrea Terpstra (10), Kaitlyn Tuholski (10) and Jenna Caywood (10) -- and four players added double-digit digs –- Rice (17), Tuholski (12), Linnea Phillips (11) and Taylor Roberts (10).

It needed to be, as the Falcons (7-8, 3-4) forged an 18-11 lead in the opening set, and led 21-16 after a kill by Madi Cavell (17 kills).

But the Crusaders turned in a tremendous blocking effort in the opener –- seven blocks for points –- and that effort at the net fueled NNU's comeback.

"We didn't really do anything different, we were doing the same thing we were trying to do, we just got a ridiculous number of blocks. It was awesome," said English.

"When you block well, that just creates so much momentum," NNU's coach added.

A Caywood block trimmed the difference to 18-13, a block by Tuholski got NNU as close as 21-20 down, and a tandem block from Tuholski and Andrea Terpstra gave NNU a 23-21 edge as the Crusaders scored the final nine points of the set.

NNU rode that momentum to a convincing second-set victory, and nearly closed out the match in three straight.

With the third set tied at 22-22, SPU got a kill each from Cavell and Nikki Lowell, giving the Falcons just enough breathing room to hold on for the win.

But NNU regained the momentum in the match as Caywood and Tuholski had back-to-back kills in a four-point Crusader run that snapped an 11-11 tie, and sent NNU on the way to the four-set victory.

"Jenna Caywood was awesome tonight," English said of the 6-foot-2 redshirt freshman who had 10 kills on 13 attacks. "She was 10-of-13, you don't get much better than that."

NNU's starting setter Michelle Terpstra returned to the lineup, after missing Thursday's match because of an injury, and dished out 47 assists in the win for the Crusaders, who next play at Central Washington next Saturday.