Senior middle blocker Tami Alade hit a season-high .692 with 10 kills and three blocks. Junior opposite Audriana Fitzmorris added nine kills on .316 hitting and three digs, while freshman Holly Campbell finished with five kills and three blocks.

Junior Jenna Gray controlled the offense, posting 47 assists. The setter also collected seven digs, two aces and led the team with four blocks. Junior libero Morgan Hentz had a match-high 15 digs and four assists.

Stanford (14-1, 6-0) hit .384, while Colorado (10-7, 2-4) turned in a .358 clip. The Cardinal held a 6.5 to 5.0 advantage in blocks and had 50 digs to the Buffaloes 44.

Plummer, who added five digs, had 10 of her kills in the first set. Sophomore outside hitter Meghan McClure added 11 kills, on .360 hitting, and 11 digs for her fifth double-double of the season.

Kathryn Plummer recorded 10 of her game-high 23 kills in the first set, leading Stanford past host Colorado in Pac-12 play Sunday. Photo by John P. Lozano/isiphotos.com.

The Cardinal (8-4) return home with a split of a pair of top 10 teams, having defeated No. 6 Michigan on Saturday.

The 21st-ranked Stanford field hockey team ended its trip to Iowa with a 3-0 loss to the 10th-ranked host Hawkeyes, snapping an eight-game winning streak, its longest in four years.

The Cardinal hosts No. 22 Washington State in a conference match at 8 p.m. Friday, followed by No. 15 Washington on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

In total, there were 35 tie scores and 13 lead changes in Sunday's match. The Cardinal has won five in a row over Colorado and is 19-1 in the all-time series.

Two-time defending national champion Stanford opens its season at home Tuesday against Pac-12 foe Utah, and will visit Washington State on Friday. Both meets are set to begin at 2 p.m.

Stanford goalie Kelsey Bing recorded three of her four saves in the second half to keep the game close.

Iowa held a 2-0 halftime lead, outshooting the Cardinal, 8-1, in the first half. The Hawkeyes iced the game with a goal in the final five minutes.

Still, it's been a while since Stanford tasted defeat and that was an overtime loss to Syracuse six weeks ago. The Cardinal hopes to get back on track Friday in its meeting with host California at 4 p.m. Friday in an America East Conference contest.

Freshman Alexandre Rotsaert's run at the ITA All-American Championships came to an end on Friday. He dropped a 6-4, 6-3 decision to the No. 25 player in the ITA preseason rankings in Texas A&M's Valentin Vacherot. Rotsaert won three qualifying matches to earn a spot in the main draw and captured a first-round victory over Wake Forest's Menelaos Efstathiou (7-5, 6-4) on Thursday.

The Cardinal sophomore advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-7(2), 6-4, 7-5 win over No. 20 Oliver Crawford of Florida Saturday morning. Geller's run in the tournament came to an end Saturday afternoon with a 6-3, 6-3 defeat to Reinberg, the No. 38 ranked player in the ITA.

Geller, ranked No. 48 in the ITA preseason poll, defeated Texas' Christian Sigsgaard, 6-2, 7-5, in the first round Thursday, then knocked off the third overall seed and No. 5 player in the ITA preseason rankings in Mississippi State's Giovanni Oradini, 6-3, 6-2, Friday.

Sophomore Axel Geller won for the third time Saturday morning to reach the quarterfinals, before bowing out to No. 20 Emil Reinberg to end his run at the Saint Francis Health System ITA Men's All-American Championships at Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Several members of the Cardinal will compete in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships next weekend in Seattle.

The doubles team of Barber and Genesen reached Sunday's final, where they faces Armando Soemarno and Charles Roberts or Oregon. The Ducks came out on top, 8-4, in Sunday's match.

Genender and Genesen were joined by Jack Barber and Kento Perera, competing in singles and doubles at the weekend tournament on the UC Santa Barbara campus.

In an all-Cardinal final Sunday at the UCSB Classic, junior William Genesen defeated teammate Michael Genender, 7-5, 7-5, to capture the tournament crown in Santa Barbara.

Stanford has won 23 straight dual meets. The Cardinal's last defeat in a dual was to No. 3 Cal on Feb. 14, 2015, which also marks a string of 21 straight Pac-12 dual meet victories since that loss. The Cardinal has also won 16 straight dual meets at home dating to Oct. 30, 2014 against Texas (156-144).

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Cardinal corner: Volleyball leaves Colorado with a sweep