MILTON, Mass. – Stephanie Olah finished with seven kills on 10 total attempts and the Keene State College women's volleyball team matched a season-best by attacking at a .310 clip as the Owls rolled to a 3-0 (25-10, 25-14, 25-7) non-conference victory over Curry College on Wednesday night at Katz Gymnasium.

With three consecutive conference matches looming next (and four of the next six) beginning on Saturday, KSC (9-12) used a midweek non-conference match against a struggling team to get back on track following a tough setback to defending league champion University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth on the road last Saturday.  Curry, who has one win in 18 tries, was shredded, hitting below zero in the match while losing their fourth straight.  They have won five sets on the season and have been swept 15 times.
None of the three sets were in doubt for long, with Keene State tallying nine of the first 10 points on the evening.  Olah had three kills in that span.  Ahead 10-5, the Owls rattled off six straight to take a double-digit advantage and were never threatened, finishing off a 25-10 set win on a kill by Gigi Stake as KSC finished by scoring the final four points.

Curry's only lead of the match came when they scored three of the first four points of the second frame, but the Owls took control quickly by scoring eight straight points after it was 5-5 and took their first double-digit lead at 16-6 after a Colonels attacking error.  The lead grew as high as 12 (18-6) and KSC had no trouble closing out a 25-14 set win from there despite their lowest attacking clip of any of the three sets.

Their best mark came in the third when they connected for an eye-popping .533 (nine kills, one error on 15 attempts), and predictably given those numbers, it was the most lopsided set of three.  Keene State sprinted out to a 10-3 lead, getting a block from Alexis Small to cap off that run.  Jordyn Mik and Small combined for a block a short time later to make it 14-4 out of a Curry timeout, and KSC used five straight points thereafter (two on aces by Small) to make it 20-5.  Kills by Olah, Mik, and Sarah Bartels brought up match point quickly – in less than an hour – at 24-6, and Olah ended the match two points later with her seventh kill.

Molly Wetherbee (.375 pct.) and Bartels (.214 pct.) each finished with five kills while Marina Miller had four on nine total swings without an error.

Kyah Earls and Jess Sullivan each had five kills, combining for 10 of the Colonels' 14 kills total in the match.  The hosts were outhit .310 to -.045 and were minus-13 in digs (36-23).

"The defense today was incredible," said Keene State head coach Jake Girard.  "I think I saw only one ball hit the ground without somebody touching it on our side."

The Owls are now 2-7 on the road, and will now return home for a pair of conference matches beginning on Saturday (October 19) when they host the University of Massachusetts-Boston (10-8, 1-2 LEC) at 1:00 p.m.  KSC is currently tied for sixth in the conference standings with Rhode Island College at 1-3, with UMass-Boston a half game ahead in fifth.