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Pace Pace 8-6,0-3 NE10
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Winner St. Anselm SA 8-6,1-1 NE10
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8-6,0-3 NE10
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St. Anselm SA
8-6,1-1 NE10
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Pace Pace 22 10 16 (0)
St. Anselm SA 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Hawks Offense Dominates in Sweep Over Pace

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's volleyball team recorded a season-high .309 attack percentage in a 3-0, Northeast 10 Conference (NE10) win at Stoutenburgh Gymnasium on Wednesday.
 
Saint Anselm 3, Pace 0 (25-22, 25-10, 25-16)
 
Highlights
  • Saint Anselm improves to 14-16 all-time against Pace University, as the Hawks have won 12 of the last 13 meetings.
  • The Hawks' season-high hitting percentage of .309 came on 43 kills with just 13 errors on 97 attack attempts. Saint Anselm never trailed at any point in the match.
  • Junior Hollyn Frano picked up her fourth double-double of the season with 11 kills on a .368 attack percentage and 11 digs.
  • Sophomore Taylor Lacerda matched Frano with a match-high 11.5 points, tallying 10 kills with a service ace, a block assist, and two digs.
  • Freshman Peyton Elward had a season-high .636 attack percentage, recording seven kills on 11 total attempts while leading the team with four block assists and a solo block.
  • Freshman Mckenna O'Connell recorded 35 of the 40 assists for the Hawks, assisting on all but just eight kills in the match, also notching a season-high four aces with nine digs, a block assist, and a kill.
  • Junior Madeline Burke had 20 digs on defense to lead the Hawks, also recording three assists.
How it Happened 
SET 1 | Despite there being just one lead change in the first set, it was a tightly contested frame as the Hawks' lead got up to five points at its peak. Pace was down just one, 10-9, when junior Sam Pila rattled off three straight kills to put the Hawks up four, 13-9. The Setters answered with four consecutive scores and would eventually tie things up at 18-18, but a 6-1 run by the Hawks put the set out of reach with Frano delivering the final kill to win the frame, 25-22.
 
SET 2 | With O'Connell serving, the Hawks opened the second on a 5-0 run, leading for the entirety of the set. Freshman Etta Rocco sparked an 11-2 run with three straight kills, followed by two from Lacerda and another ace from O'Connell that made the score 21-7. Lacerda put the Hawks up 2-0 when she ended the set, 25-10, with an ace.
 
SET 3 | O'Connell opened the serving in the third set as Saint Anselm jumped out to another 5-0 lead on her fourth ace of the match. A pair of attack errors from the Hawks trimmed the Setters' deficit to just one, 8-7, as Pace hung around midway through the set, 12-11. Three kills from Lacerda and two from Elward gave the Hawks a comfortable 18-11 lead as Rocco finished the job, winning the set on a kill that gave Saint Anselm the NE10 victory, 25-16.
 
Up Next
Saint Anselm women's volleyball (9-6, 1-1 NE10) starts a two-game Northeast 10 Conference road trip with a match against Adelphi University (13-7, 2-1 NE10) on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. at the Adelphi Center for Recreation and Sport in Garden City, N.Y.

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