Redshirt junior Merete Lutz finished with 11 kills on .310 hitting and seven blocks. Redshirt senior Inky Ajanaku, redshirt junior Ivana Vanjak and sophomore Hayley Hodson each finished with nine kills. Ajanaku and Fitzmorris paced the team with eight blocks each.

Fitzmorris and Plummer each recorded 13 kills and hit over .350. As a team, Stanford out hit Minnesota (1-1) .233 to .142 and held a 17.5 to 12.5 advantage in blocks. The Cardinal improves to 7-0 all-time against the Gophers, who reached last year's Final Four.

Down a man and two goals, Stanford fought back and the top-ranked Cardinal scored two goals three minutes apart late in regulation to earn a 2-2 draw with Saint Mary's on Sunday night.

Stanford travels to Boulder, Colorado for the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge, featuring the Cardinal, host Colorado, No. 9 Penn State and No. 14 Illinois.

"We were in a terrible situation when we could have easily been up in the game and we fought back," Stanford coach Jeremy Gunn said. "We showed great resiliency and were the better team with 10 men. At the end of regulation we were looking like the team to score. I'm really proud of how we kept going."

Both goals came with Stanford down to 10 men after Tomas Hilliard-Arce was sent off in the 77th minute.

In the 78th minute Bryce Marion used a clever feed to Foster Langsdorf on a set piece from 25 yards out and Langsdorf beat Saint Mary's (0-0-2) keeper Andrew Konstantino with his left to get the Cardinal (0-0-2) on the board for the first time in 2016. In the 81st, Tanner Beason whipped a ball in from the left and Drew Skundrich climbed highest to equalize.

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Stanford women make quick volleyball recovery, top Minnesota