WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The University of New Haven women's volleyball team improved to 10-0 in Northeast-10 Conference play with a 3-1 victory over visiting Adelphi University Tuesday night at Charger Gymnasium. The Chargers won by set scores of 25-20, 20-25, 25-19 and 26-24.

The win was the seventh straight for New Haven who moved to 19-4 overall with the win. The Chargers also clinched their sixth-straight berth into the Northeast-10 Conference Championship tournament with the win. The Panthers dropped to 17-9 overall and 9-2 in the conference.

Senior middle hitter Amber Cannady (Yonkers, N.Y./Charles E. Gorton) led the team with 13 kills in 30 attempts with four errors (.300 hitting percentage). Kristen Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo./Liberty) also recorded double-digit kills with 10 and added 10 digs for the double-double. Ashley Dalton (Helena, Mont./Capital / Northern Arizona University) led the team with a .400 hitting percentage off eight kills in 15 attempts with two errors, while Margo Meteyer (Madison, Wis./Madison West) contributed nine kills in 29 attempts with three errors (.207 hitting percentage).

Kaulana Ane (Paia, Hawai'i/Kamehameha) managed the offense with 31 assists and grabbed 11 digs. Freshman Annika Hacker (Bayreuth, Germany/Littleton (Colo.)) chipped in with 10 assists and 10 digs as well.

Defensively, Kea-Marie Olaso (Kailua, Hawai'i/Le Jardin Academy) led the team with 17 digs, while Meteyer helped with 13 digs. At the net, Cannady tallied a match-high eight total blocked, including two solo stops.

Adelphi's Kaitlyn DeStefano led the match with 17 kills off 41 swings with six errors (.268 hitting percentage), while six other Panthers tallied five-or-more kills in the match. Katie Bryson handed out 40 assists, while Sierra Crook led the defense with 17 digs.

The Chargers, leading 9-8, when on a 3-0 run in the opening set to establish and early lead on the Panthers. Three errors and a service ace from Meteyer later in the set put New Haven in control at 20-12. Adelphi battled back, scoring five of the next six points to cut the Chargers lead to 21-18. Three more Adelphi errors followed by a Cannady kill gave New Haven a 25-20 win in set one.

New Haven jumped out to the early lead, 11-8, in the second set, but Adelphi tallied four-straight points to take their second lead of the set. The lead would change teams twice before another four-straight from the Panthers gave them a comfortable 18-15 lead after a Mandy Stanislovaitis kill. A Kristen Lee kill would cut Adelphi's lead back to two, but the Panthers got kills from Shelby Stoner and DeStefano down the stretch to take a 25-20 victory.

After playing to a 15-15 tie, Cannady sparked a 4-0 run for UNH who took a 19-15 lead late in set three. UNH maintained the momentum and Meteyer gave the Chargers a 23-16 lead with a kill from Ane. The Panthers took their second timeout, but UNH stayed course as Dalton buried a kill to end the set 25-19.

The fourth set was the most lopsided of the evening in the early going, as New Haven jumped out to a 12-5 lead after back-to-back errors from the Panthers. Two more errors later in the set gave the Chargers their largest lead of the early set, 18-10. New Haven continued to lead and took a 23-16 lead off another Lee kill. After a 3-0 Adelphi run, Cannady gave UNH match point with her 12th kill of the evening. The Panthers battled back and evened the match at 24-24 with a 5-0 run late in the set, but Cannady hammered her 13th kill of the match to give UNH a 25-24 lead. The final point was won by New Haven after an Adelphi error and UNH sealed a 26-24 win.

New Haven hits the road for three-straight matches over the next week against Saint Michael's, Saint Anselm and Southern Connecticut State, before returning home for the regular season finale against Southern New Hampshire on Friday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.