COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's volleyball team closed its season by losing to nationally-regarded Northeast 10 Conference counterpart American International College, 3-0 (25-10, 25-11, 25-18), on Saturday during Senior Day in the Ross Sports Center. The Yellow Jackets received votes toward this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) national poll.
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The Purple Knights honored
Grace Almeida (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa),
Ashley Marshall (Escondido, Calif./Escondido Charter) and
Emily Winefield (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) on their Senior Day.
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RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (4-18, 1-8 NE10), AIC (24-2, 8-1 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Almeida, 3 kills
- Marshall, 8 assists
- Winefield, 6 digs
- Sophomore Rory Tower (Fountain Hills, Ariz./Desert Mountain), 5 kills, .500 hitting
- Sophomore Lillie King (Livermore, Calif./Carondelet), 5 kills
- Sophomore Tessa LaFrenier (Narragansett, R.I./North Kingstown/Adelphi), 4 kills, 2 aces
- Junior D'Niaya Settles (Ames, Iowa/Ames), 4 kills
- Sophomore Abby Crowley (Westerly, R.I./La Salle Academy), 10 assists, 4 digs
- First-year Sarah Gordon (Dyer, Ind./Marian Catholic), 9 digs
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Senior Carissa Michel, 10 kills, .500 hitting
- Sophomore Defne Aydin, 8 kills, .538 hitting
- Senior Janelys Perez Cortes, 8 kills, .438 hitting, 2 aces
- Senior Victoria Mendez, 23 assists, 7 digs
- Senior Selin Guler, 7 digs
MATCH FACTS
- Almeida will graduate third in program history in career block assists (157), sixth in total blocks (193), and seventh in hitting percentage (.270).
- Tower's 57 block assists this season were good for fifth in program history. She is sixth in school annals in career block assists (127) and eighth in career total blocks (167).
THE ACTION
- LaFrenier's kill had Saint Michael's within 3-2 in the opening set, and the hosts were down just 6-3 before first-year Mia Berdecia had three aces in a 7-0 run, putting AIC in command.
- Another kill by LaFrenier kept the Purple Knights within 13-9 in the second set, but the Yellow Jackets later closed the stanza with 11 of the final 12 points.
- Set No. 3 featured five ties, and the Purple and Gold swung into a 7-6 lead on LaFrenier's ace before AIC countered with a 7-2 run. Saint Michael's trimmed its deficit to three points three times and was down just 21-17 after Settles dropped a kill, but AIC never led by less from there.
