Pirates Win Fourth Straight with Sweep of Pioneers

Saturday, September 10

Fairfield, Conn. / William H. Pitt Center

1:00 PM

Seton Hall University

6-1,0-0Big East

Sacred Heart

2-6,0-0NEC

Seton Hall

Sacred Heart

9/10/2022 3:33:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score BOX SCORE - SHU (.pdf)

The Hall improves to 6-1 for the first time since 2012.

FAIRFIELD, CONN. – Junior Bianca Bucciarelli (Carate Brianza, Italy) had a team-high 10 kills as the Seton Hall women's volleyball team swept Sacred Heart, 3-0 (25-23, 25-17, 25-21), for its fourth straight victory.

The Hall improves to 6-1 to start the year for the first time since 2012 with one of their best performances of the year. The Pirates had a season-best .347 attack percentage and a season-low eight total attack errors.

Bucciarelli had 10 kills, only one attack error and an impressive .429 attack percentage. Meanwhile the Pirates' defense was stout again, recording 8.0 team blocks including seven from freshman Asli Subasili (Tekirdag, Turkey). Sophomore Anna Holland (Waukesha, Wis.) had 14 digs in only three sets.

SET 1:
Sacred Heart got off to a hot start with eight of the match's first 10 points. Trailing 13-8, The Hall went on a 10-2 run to take an 18-15 advantage. With the score tied at 22, back-to-back kills by Perri Lucas (Chicago, Ill.) and Bucciarelli put The Hall in set point. After the Pioneers cut their deficit to one point, their attack error gave Seton Hall a 25-23 set one victory.

SET 2:
Trailing 3-2, the Pirates went on a 7-1 run, and another kill by Bucciarelli gave them an early 9-4 lead in set two. The Pioneers cut The Hall's lead to 13-12, but Seton Hall responded with a 10-4 burst to give it a 23-16 advantage. A kill by Reagan Hopp (Carmel, Ind.) put the Pirates in set point, 24-17, and the ensuing Sacred Heart setting error handed set two to The Hall.

SET 3:
The early goings of set three were close, but the Pirates never trailed, and a Sacred Heart service error gave The Hall a 15-11 advantage. With the score tied at 18, The Hall scored three straight and forced a Pioneers timeout. Out of the break, a kill by Lucas extended the Pirates' lead to 22-18. The Pioneers cut their deficit to 22-21, but The Hall closed out the match with three straight points. Up 23-21, Subasili and Bucciarelli had back-to-back kills to win the set for the Pirates. The Hall had an impressive .462 attack percentage for the third set alone.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

Bucciarelli had a team-best 10 kills, only one attack error and a .429 attack percentage.
Holland had a team-high 14 digs to go with four assists.
Subasili notched a match-high seven blocks along with three kills.
Junior Taylor Jakubowski (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) had a team-high 19 assists, three kills and two digs.
Maddie Klungel (Napa, Calif.) tallied 13 assists, five digs and a match-best four aces.
Seton Hall recorded a .347 attack percentage for the match, while Sacred Heart attacked at .194.
The Pirates had 42 kills, while Sacred Heart recorded 38.
The Hall tallied 33 digs, while the Pioneers had 32.
The Pirates had 8.0 total blocks, while Sacred Heart had 3.0.

NEWS & NOTES:

Seton Hall improves to 6-1 on the young season, while Sacred Heart drops to 2-6.
The Pirates are 6-1 to start the year for the first time since 2012. That year, The Hall began the season with wins in 15 of its first 16 matches.
The Hall improves to a perfect 6-0 all-time against Sacred Heart and improves its all-time set record against the Pioneers to 18-2.
The Hall improves to 4-0 in three-set matches.
The Pirates are a perfect 6-0 when having a higher attack percentage than their opponent.
The Hall's .347 attack percentage is a season-high and their eight total attack errors was a season-low. In fact, no individual Pirate had more than three attack errors.

UP NEXT:
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow with a pair of matches as the Sacred Heart Invitational continues. The Pirates will face Stony Brook at 11:00 a.m. and then Princeton at 2:00 p.m.