BOX SCORE NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of New Haven women's volleyball team swept crosstown and Northeast-10 rival Southern Connecticut State on Tuesday evening to solidify sole ownership of its sixth consecutive NE-10 regular season title. Kea-Marie Olaso (Kailua, Hawai'i/Le Jardin Academy) became the fastest student-athlete in program history to reach 1,000 career digs in the 3-0 road win.
 
The victory is the 10th in a row for New Haven, which improves to 22-4 overall and 13-0 in the Northeast-10. The Chargers took the contest by set scores of 25-11, 25-15 and 25-22. The Owls fall to 17-12 with a 5-8 conference mark.
 
With a match-high 13 digs at SCSU, Olaso reaches the 1,000-dig plateau in the 58th match and 208th set of her career. The 10th Charger to record 1,000 career digs, her 503 digs this fall rank at third all-time in a single season at New Haven. Zuleyka Figueroa owns the single-season program record with 569 digs in 2002, and Heather Ladao set the career mark with 1,574 digs from 2008-11.
 
Kristen Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo./Liberty) was the lone player to tally double-digit kills in the match with 10 finishers on .474 hitting. Amber Cannady (Yonkers, N.Y./Charles E. Gorton) and Margo Meteyer (Madison, Wis./Madison West) added eight kills apiece, and the Chargers got five kills each from Kristy Atufunwa (Denver, Colo./Denver East) and Ashley Dalton (Helena, Mont./Capital / Northern Arizona University). Kaulana Ane (Paia, Hawai'i/Kamehameha) notched four kills in addition to handing out 25 assists. Collectively, the Chargers hit .287, fueled by a .462 mark in the first set.
 
Behind the 13 digs registered by Olaso were Meteyer with 11 from the back row and Ane with eight. At the net, Cannady had a hand in five of New Haven's eight team blocks, while Atufunwa and Ane each got a piece of three rejections. The Chargers' defensive effort limited Southern Connecticut State to a .043 team hitting percentage.
 
Meteyer landed a match-best four aces in addition to two from Annika Hacker (Bayreuth, Germany/Littleton (Colo.)) and one by Ane as the Chargers recorded seven points out of the serving game.
 
Faith Ford led the Owls with six kills.
 
New Haven did not trail in either of the first two sets. The Chargers broke a 3-3 tie in the set one with an eight-point spurt that featured back-to-back kills from Lee and consecutive Meteyer aces en route to a 25-11 win. In the second frame, New Haven led wire-to-wire with a 3-0 run to start the set and two separate 5-0 stretches on the way to a 25-15 triumph.
 
The Owls fought back from an early 9-3 deficit in set three, eventually claiming a lead at 22-21. However, the home team would not score again as a block by Atufunwa and Dalton followed by two Meteyer kills and a finisher by Cannady closed out the sweep with a 25-22 New Haven win.
 
The Chargers will conclude the regular season and celebrate Senior Day at Charger Gymnasium on Friday, Nov. 15 with a 7 p.m. visit from Southern New Hampshire. All of the action against the Penmen will be broadcast live in high definition and free of charge on NewHavenChargers.com.