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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- No. 18 Mizzou Volleyball (26-5) advanced to the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament on Thursday, sweeping Northern Illinois (25-16, 25-13, 25-20) in straight sets. The Tigers outstanding .404 team hitting percentage tonight marked the programs second-highest hitting output in NCAA Tournament history. Mizzous top NCAA hitting performance (.505) occurred on Dec. 3, 2005, against Arkansas in Mid-Missouri.The Tigers offense was clicking from the get-go, as junior Courtney Eckenrode (The Woodlands, Texas) turned in a stellar performance at setter. Eckenrode finished with 38 assists, while four Tigers recorded six-plus kills on the evening. Mizzous attack against the Huskies marked its fifth .400-plus team hitting percentage this season.Redshirt junior Melanie Crow (Wildwood, Mo.) was fantastic as an all-around player Thursday, recording a team-high 17 kills on .351 hitting and four service aces. Crows 17 strikes marked her most kills in a three-set match this season. Additionally, it marked her fifth match with four-plus aces this year. Crow now sits with 47 total aces in her junior campaign, ranking T-7th-most in a single season in program history.Senior Carly Kan (Honolulu) produced her team-leading 13th double-double this season with 10 kills on .280 hitting plus 14 digs. It marked Kans third career double-double in NCAA Tournament action and the 28th all-time double-double by a Tiger in NCAA postseason play.Senior Emily Thater (Springfield, Mo.), sophomore Alyssa Munlyn (Suwanee, Ga.) and redshirt junior Kira Larson (Fargo, N.D.) rounded up Mizzous impressive offensive display. Thater tallied five kills on .556 hitting, Munlyn posted six kills on .500 hitting and Larson recorded eight kills on .438 hitting.Mizzou earned its 26th overall victory this season with its triumph against Northern Illinois, placing T-6th most wins in a single season in program history. 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We lost friends, partners, colleagues and family members.The station called for prayers for Valmorbidas recovery, and for three other station journalists who died.The journalists, all men, included cameramen, photographers, commentators and reporters from radio stations in Brazil as well as larger media outlets such as Fox and Globo, a large Brazilian conglomerate.Among them was Globos Ari de Araujo.Ari was like a brother to me, said Pedro Bassan, a sports and general news reporter at Globo who had worked with Araujo for 20 years. Ill never have dinner with him again, or be able to get into an argument.Bassan said Araujo was a cameraman with the ability to shoot movie-qualiity video at the speed of journalism.dddddddddddd. He was traveling with the team for a special report.Marco Guarizzo, a presenter on CBN radio in southern Brazil, said staff members were struggling with the news that director Deva Pascovicci was on the flight. The shock was so great that the station staffers had trouble producing local content, turning to material from affiliates. By the afternoon, some members of the small team, which includes two presenters and five reporters, held a meeting.If (Pascovicci) were here, he would want us working, and working a lot on the story, said Guarizzo, adding that his boss was both demanding and kind.Fox lost six journalists, including commentator Mario Sergio Pontes de Paiva, a former midfielder who played briefly for Brazils national team in the early 1980s, and who coached for several Brazilian clubs, most recently Internacional in 2009 and Ceara in 2010.Amid profound sadness and consternation over what happened, we are following minute-by-minute as new information comes out, said Carlos Martinez, president of Fox Networks Group Latin America, in a statement. ' ' '