KEENE, N.H.--League leading UMass Boston held Keene State College to -.008 hitting, sending the Owls to a 3-0 (10-25, 20-25, 17-25) Little East Conference defeat on Thursday night at Spaulding Gym.

Records

• UMass Boston: 18-3, 5-0 LEC 
• Keene State: 14-8, 4-1 LEC

Up Next

• Keene State hosts the Little East/NEWMAC Challenge on Saturday.  The Owls will face Smith College at 12 noon and Mount Holyoke College at 2 p.m.
• The Beacons will face SUNY Canton at the Volleyball Hall of Fame Tournament at Amherst College.

Tale of the Tape

• Keene State found it tough going against the Beacons, who served up five aces and had 10 total blocks.  The Owls were led on offense by junior Rachel Lamica, who had five kills, while Courtney Collins and Hannah Szymanski had four each.
• Collins also had a trio of solo blocks. Katie Cunningham had 17 assists and eight digs, while Riley Bunker had a team high 12 digs and a service ace.
• The Beacons got a strong game from Colleen Koen, who hit .429 with 10 kills and a pair of block assists.

Set One Highlights

• After the two teams traded attack errors to start the match, the Beacons exploded for the next six points for a 7-1 lead.  Koen had two kills during that stretch, and Julia Murphy another.
• Pepper Baker's service ace made it 11-2, and the lead increased to 17-7 on a kill from Eileen Shi.
• Kills from Lamica and Szymanski and a UMB error got the Owls within 18-10, but the Beacons scored the final seven points of the set for a 25-10 win.

Set Two Highlights

• The two teams traded points in the early going before UMass Boston opened up a 5-2 lead with Elizabeth Glavan's service ace.  
• A kill from Koen and a service ace by Christina Elliot increased the lead to 16-7 before KSC pulled to within 18-10 on a kill from Lamica.
• Cunningham's block on Shi got KSC within 24-20, but Rachel Maslach's kill ended the set.

Set Three Highlights

• Three straight Beacon errors to open the set gave KSC a 3-0 lead before UMB went in front 5-4 on a kill by Melanie Fyda.
• Macayla Chianco served into the net for an 8-7 KSC lead, but the Owls committed four straight errors to give the Beacons an 11-8 advantage.
• Three straight kills from Shi opened up an 18-10 gap, but the Owls would rally to within four on kills from Hatanaka and Collins and an error by Shi, but kills from Glavan and Shi ended any chance of a KSC comeback.