COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's volleyball team lost to the University of New Haven, 3-1 (25-21, 23-25, 28-26, 25-15), on Saturday during Northeast-10 Conference action in the Ross Sports Center.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (7-14, 3-3 NE10), New Haven (16-8, 6-1 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Alexandra Báez Rentas (San Juan, Puerto Rico/New Dimensions), 33 assists, 17 digs, 6 kills, 2 blocks
• Senior Aaliyah Huihui-Martinez (Salinas, Calif./Notre Dame), 8 digs, 2 aces
• Senior Jillian Orth (Bourne, Mass./Bourne), 14 digs, 3 aces
• Junior Dana Welch (Howell, N.J./Donovan Catholic), 10 kills
• Sophomore Grace Almeida (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa), 10 kills, 3 blocks
• Sophomore Kyla Farnan (Phoenix, Ariz./Pinnacle), 18 digs, 5 aces, 5 assists
• First-year Kayleigh Cucura (Redmond, Ore./Ridgeview), 4 kills, 4 blocks, .571 hitting
• First-year D'Niaya Settles (Ames, Iowa/Ames), 14 kills, 2 aces

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Sofia Kamke, 9 kills, 18 digs
• Sophomore Tori Borton, 32 assists, 13 digs
• Sophomore Grace Juergens, 19 kills, 12 digs, 5 aces
• First-year Payton Malinoski, 15 digs, 3 aces

MATCH FACTS

• The Purple Knights turned in more kills than New Haven (48-47), each team had 12 aces, while the visitors earned narrow edges in digs (74-70) and blocks (11-8).
• Báez Rentas, the lone player in program history among the top 10 in both career assists (1,991) and digs (1,025), is nine assists away from becoming one of a handful of NE10 players with 2,000 assists and 1,000 digs. No Purple Knight has reached the 2,000/1,000 club.

THE ACTION

• New Haven's 10-6 lead in the opening set was the largest by either team until the final tally. Consecutive Settles aces capped a tying 5-1 run (11-11), back-to-back Welch kills made it 20-20, and Cucura's kill provided a 21-21 tie, but the Purple Knights never led in the set. Williams had a kill and a block in a clinching 4-0 run.
• The second set featured 17 ties and 10 lead swings, as the Purple Knights' 14-11 and 15-12 leads were the largest for either team. Orth's ace produced the former. Williams' kill made it 22-22, but Welch posted a kill, Orth notched an ace, and first-year Mahili McKay (Oakland, Calif./Bishop O'Dowd) notched a kill in a 3-1 run that concluded the set.
• The teams played through 16 more ties and eight lead swings in set No. 3. Welch's kill gave the Purple Knights a 22-19 lead, the largest by either squad, but Kamke had a kill and a block in a tying 4-1 run. After Almeida's kill brought the hosts to set point at 24-23, New Haven netted the next two points. Saint Michael's twice fended off set points, but Juergens and Kamke finished the comeback with kills for the final two points.
• In the fourth set, New Haven turned an 8-6 lead into a 19-10 contest on the strength of three Juergens kills, and the hosts never again came closer than six points.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH

• Next Saturday vs. Adelphi University, 1 p.m.
• The Purple Knights celebrate Senior Day that day.