COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's volleyball team fell to Bentley University, 3-0 (25-18, 25-23, 25-18), in Northeast-10 Conference play on Saturday afternoon in the Ross Sports Center.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-7, 0-2 NE10), Bentley (13-3, 4-0 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Sophomore Dana Welch (Howell, N.J./Donovan Catholic), 10 kills
• Senior Beth Syverson (Huntington, Vt./Mount Mansfield Union/Emmanuel [Mass.]), 6 kills, 2 blocks, .400 hitting
• Junior Alexandra Báez Rentas (San Juan, Puerto Rico/New Dimensions), 24 assists, 11 digs, 4 kills, .444 hitting
• Sophomore Ella Patterson (Folsom, Calif./Vista Del Lago), 9 digs, 6 kills, 3 assists, 3 aces
• First-year Kyla Farnan (Phoenix, Ariz./Pinnacle), 14 digs
• First-year Katarina Mladenovic (Chicago, Ill./Maine South), 7 digs, 2 aces

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Ingrid Murphy, 12 digs, 9 kills, 3 aces
• Senior Caitlin Wunder, 5 kills, 2 blocks
• Senior Natalie Thom, 12 assists, 6 digs
• Junior Rachel Vitko, 9 kills
• Sophomore Elizabeth Blinn, 4 kills, 4 aces, .400 hitting
• First-year Elliet Manning, 17 assists, 10 digs

MATCH FACTS

• Saint Michael's held the advantage in digs (50-48), and trailed by single digits in kills (35-33).
• The Falcons had 10 service aces, while the Purple Knights collected seven service aces.
• Báez Rentas earned her 1,000th career assist in the second set of the afternoon. She is the eighth player in program history to reach the milestone.

THE ACTION

• During set No. 1, the Purple Knights went on a 7-3 run to tie the set 15-15 highlighted by two kills and an ace by Welch. The Falcons went on a run of their own scoring seven straight points to make the score 22-15, following an error by Saint Michael's. Bentley won the first set on an ace by Blinn.
• Patterson started the scoring for the Purple and Gold in set No. 2 with two aces on her first three serves to make the score 4-1. Mladenovic also contributed two straight aces in the second set to make the score 11-7 in favor of Saint Michael's. Syverson then recorded a kill to extend the lead to 12-7. Welch went on a 3-1 run recording three kills to give Saint Michael's an 18-14 lead. The Falcons came back and won the second set 25-23, erasing a 22-18 lead held by Saint Michael's.
• The Falcons started set No. 3 by jumping out to a 7-1 lead. The Purple Knights erased a 17-8 Bentley advantage as Patterson, Welch, senior Caitlin O'Connor (Bourne, Mass./Bourne), and first-year Grace Almeida (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) recorded kills to front an 8-1 run to cut the Bentley advantage down to 18-16. Vitko had four kills in the last nine rallies of the match as Bentley clinched the win.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH

• Tuesday vs. Saint Anselm College, 6 p.m.