BOX SCORE GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – The University of New Haven women’s volleyball team was victorious, 3-1, at Adelphi on Tuesday evening in a meeting of the last two remaining teams unbeaten in Northeast-10 play. Keidy Candelaria (Vega Baja, Puerto Rico/Bayamon Military Academy) and Kaulana Ane (Paia, Hawai'i/Kamehameha) each recorded double-doubles in the win.
 
With their 16th-consecutive victory, the Chargers improve to 19-1 on the season and remain perfect at 10-0 in NE-10 play. Adelphi drops to 16-9 overall with a 7-1 conference mark. New Haven claimed the match by set scores of 25-23, 19-25, 25-17 and 25-21.
 
Candelaria notched a team-high 17 kills to go along with 12 digs for her team-leading seventh double-double of the fall. Ane, who earlier in the day was named the Northeast-10 Setter of the Week for the third-straight week, registered her fifth double-double of the season with 38 assists and 12 digs.
 
Amber Cannady (Yonkers, N.Y./Charles E. Gorton) and Kristen Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo./Liberty) each had 10 kills, with Cannady posting a .304 hitting percentage (10-3-23). As a unit, New Haven hit .237 (49-16-139) in the four-set match. Kristy Atufunwa (Denver, Colo./Denver East) added eight kills, and Ane had four.
 
Defensively, libero Kea-Marie Olaso (Kailua, Hawai'i/Le Jardin Academy) led all players with 20 digs. Cannady helmed the effort at the net with a hand in seven of the Chargers’ 11 team blocks. Ane and Ashley Dalton (Helena, Mont./Capital / Northern Arizona University) were each a part of four rejections.
 
Margo Meteyer (Madison, Wis./Madison West) did her part in the serving game, landing all four of New Haven’s service aces.
 
Adelphi was led by a double-double (21 kills, 14 digs) from Chelsea Overholt. Cumulatively, the Panthers hit .201 (56-25-154).
 
The match was back-and-forth from the start, as neither team led by more than two points for the entirety of the first set. Eventually, after the 11th and final tie of the set at 23-23, an ace from Meteyer and setting error by the Panthers gave the opening frame to the Chargers, 25-23.
 
An early 7-0 run put Adelphi on top, 7-1, in set two. After New Haven cut the deficit down to 12-11, another four-point spurt extended the margin to 16-11. The Panthers’ lead grew to seven points at 23-16, and the home team held off the Chargers to even the match with a 25-19 win.
 
The third set was the most lopsided of the four and the only frame in which the lead never changed hands. The Chargers took the first three points of the set and, though Adelphi would rally to a tie score on four occasions, New Haven always had an answer. The score was last knotted at 12-12, and the Blue and Gold snapped the deadlock with a 9-3 stretch en route to a 25-17 third-set triumph.
 
Adelphi led by as many as seven points in the fourth set – jumping out to a 9-2 lead – but New Haven responded with an 8-3 run to close the gap and remained within striking distance until finally pulling even on a Lee kill at 18-18. The Panthers regained control by winning three of the next four rallies, but the home team would not score again at that point. Two kills from Lee, a Cannady finisher and a pair of Ane and Cannady blocks brought the contest to match point and an attack error finished off the set at 25-21 to cap the Chargers’ 3-1 win.
 
In total, the four-set match included 22 ties and 10 lead changes.
 
New Haven returns to Charger Gymnasium on Friday, Oct. 26 at 4:30 p.m. against Saint Michael’s as a part of Homecoming Weekend. The match will be available live in high definition and on most mobile devices on NewHavenChargers.com.