COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's volleyball team swept past the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-16), on Tuesday in the Ross Sports Center.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-6), SUNY Plattsburgh (3-6)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Ella Patterson (Folsom, Calif./Vista Del Lago), 9 kills, 4 aces
• Senior Dana Welch (Howell, N.J./Donovan Catholic), 7 kills, .389 hitting
• Junior Grace Almeida (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa), 9 kills, .750 hitting, 2 blocks
• Junior Ashley Marshall (Escondido, Calif./Escondido Charter), 32 assists, 6 digs, 2 aces, 2 blocks
• Junior Emily Winefield (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack), 5 digs, 3 aces
• Sophomore Anna Daggett (Hinesburg, Vt./Champlain Valley Union), 4 assists, 4 digs
• Sophomore D'Niaya Settles (Ames, Iowa/Ames), 9 kills, .364 hitting
• First-year Caitlin Mediate (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth), 7 digs, 2 aces
• First-year Rory Tower (Fountain Hills, Ariz./Desert Mountain), 5 kills, 5 blocks, 4 digs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Darby Collyear, 8 kills, .467 hitting
• Junior Liya Girma, 10 kills, 12 digs

MATCH FACTS

• Welch eclipsed the 500-kill plateau for her career (506).
• Almeida had 18 kills and no errors on 26 swings the last two matches for a .692 hitting percentage.
• The Purple Knights improved to 16-2 in the series since 2008.
• Saint Michael's hit .327 as a team and posted an 8-1 blocks lead.

THE ACTION

• Settles dropped a kill in the opening set to give her team a 14-10 lead, the largest by either squad to that point, and the Purple Knights used a key 6-0 run behind the service of Tower to push a 15-14 edge into a big lead.
• Almeida's kill sparked a 6-0 run in the second set that extended the Saint Michael's lead to 23-15.
• Welch opened set No. 3 with a kill, and the Purple Knights never trailed. Another Welch kill kicked off an 8-2 stretch that broke open a 7-6 stanza, and the hosts never again led by fewer than six points.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH

• Saturday at Post University, against Post at 11 a.m. and Saint Thomas Aquinas College at 1 p.m.