The No. 3 Stanford women’s volleyball team came back from Arizona this weekend with a pair of wins, though they lost about $1,200.

At a Safeway en route to Tucson and after a sweep of Arizona State on Friday night, several of the Cardinal players and coaches discovered that all of the large bills had been removed from their wallets in the ASU locker room.

“Sounds lucrative,” senior Nji Nnamani said. “From now on, I might play with my twenties in my spandex and my iPod in my sock.”

Sophomore Foluke Akinradewo and the Cardinal (18-2, 9-1 Pac-10) took out their frustration the next night on the hapless Wildcats (10-13, 1-10). Akinradewo led her team to the sweep with 17 kills on career-high .850 hitting and three aces.

“The key thing is that it is always hard to win on the road,” head coach John Dunning said. “Whenever you travel, if you let down you are going to lose. So our goal has just been to play consistent and we have done that.”

After Stanford and Arizona State (11-11, 3-8) traded runs to start the weekend’s first match, tying as late as 19-19, the Cardinal finally pulled away. The Sun Devils pulled within one at 23-22, but two kills by sophomore outside-hitter Erin Waller and back-to-back ASU errors ended the game 30-24.

As a team, the Cardinal hit .450 in the game and four players hit over .500. Sophomore right side Erin Waller and junior middle blocker Franci Girard each hit .571 with four kills. Junior setter Bryn Kehoe and sophomore middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo both hit 1.000, recording three and five kills, respectively.

The second game started with the teams trading points until the Cardinal used a 5-1 run to take the lead at 14-10. Stanford saw its largest lead at 27-19 and that advantage held, with the Cardinal closing out the frame 30-22 on kills by Waller and senior outside hitter Kristin Richards.

Stanford jumped out to a 3-1 lead and stayed on top for good in the third. Senior middle blocker Lizzie Suiter notched the final kill in the Cardinal’s 30-24 win to secure the sweep.

Akinradewo finished with a match-high 15 kills and hit .571. Sophomore outside-hitter Cynthia Barboza tallied 11 kills, and Richards and Waller had 10 apiece. Waller hit .500 in the match with only one error. Kehoe dished out 51 assists and scored a six kills on well-disguised tips.

Of Stanford’s eight blocks, six of them were solo, including two by Barboza. Sophomore libero Jessica Fishburn led the way in the back row with a team-high 13 digs.

Freshman middle blocker Paige Mittelstaedt led the Sun Devils with 15 kills on .200 hitting. Libero Sydney Donahue anchored the ASU defense and finished with 14 digs in the match, making for average that was well below her average 6.8 per game.

The Cardinal got off to a quick start at Arizona on Saturday, jumping out to a 15-8 lead without making an error. The lead continued to grow through the second half of the game, and Stanford claimed the 30-17 win on an ace by Akinradewo.

The Wildcats fought back in the second to keep the game tight until the midway point, where Stanford had a 15-13 lead. But the Cardinal defense stepped up and allowed Arizona only six more points in the game. Nnamani tallied an ace to score the final point in a 30-19 Stanford victory.

The Cardinal notched 22 digs in the game, with Richards leading the way with 10. Stanford also blocked three Arizona attacks.

Arizona again started tough in the third game, but fell behind 15-10 and could not close the gap. The Cardinal got the win on an Arizona attacking error, taking the game 30-19 and recording a fourth straight sweep.

Akinradewo’s 17 kills led the way for the Cardinal — only three of her attacks did not find the floor — and she had a team-high three of Stanford’s nine aces. Richards chipped in 14 kills on .312 hitting while anchoring the defense with a match-high 20 digs, twice as many as Arizona’s top digger, libero Brittany Leonard.

“I thought we played together really well as a team and we were tough [this weekend],” Dunning said. “Lots of people got to play and we still played nicely together.”

While the Cardinal roster played well top to bottom, Arizona managed only 34 kills in the match and had no hitters in double digits. Middle blocker Dominique Lamb had a team-high nine kills and led the Wildcats in aces (two) and blocks (four).

The Cardinal will have a light week of practice and then play just once this coming week, a Friday night battle with cross-Bay rival California. The No. 11 Golden Bears also won both matches in Arizona this weekend, each in four games.

“In the last few weeks, the players have had a lot of papers and a lot of midterms and we know that they have some aches and pains,” Dunning said. “So we want to make sure that, since we only have one match this week, they get some time to rest.”