The Sacred Heart University women's volleyball team swept Northeast Conference visitor, Fairleigh Dickinson, 3-0, Saturday night at the Pitt Center. The Pioneers improve to 15-11 overall and 10-3 in the conference and the Knights drop to 3-25 on the season and 2-12 in NEC action.

The Pioneers hit .300 on the night, with a .486 hitting percentage in the final set. Three Pioneers finished in double-figures in kills.

SHU returns to action on Wednesday, when it travels to Central Connecticut State for a 7:00 pm match.

By The Numbers

• Gianna Scioletti led the Pioneers with 13 kills and hit .409 for the night
• Julia Murawinski finished with a dozen kills and six digs, while Rianna McNamee tallied 10 kills
• Liisel Nelis and Emma Smallcomb both recorded 12 digs for the Pioneers
• Sarah Ciszek had a 4-assists, 10-dig double-double
• SHU finished with 5.0 team blocked, led by three from Scioletti
• The Knights hit .099 on the night, with seven kills from Mujay Mambu
• Allison Koester had a match-high 14 digs
• Brooke Stevens had five blocks for the Knights, who finished with 8.0 as a team

Set 1

• Maggie Maksimovic recorded back-to-back kills to give FDU a 7-5 advantage
• After a service error, Gianna Scioletti out down a kill, that was followed by an FDU error to give SHU an 8-7 lead
• The Knights were able to even the score, 8-8, before Scioletti started a 6-1 run, that gae the Pioneers a 14-9 lead
• FDU was able to close within two after three Pioneer errors, at 19-17
• An FDU error gave SHU its 20^th point, and the Pioneer rallied for six of the final seven points to earn the victory

Set 2

• The Pioneers fell behind 3-2 and the match was tied at 7-7
• From that point, the Pioneers when on an 8-0 run that saw kills from four different Pioneers, including two from McNamee
• SHU committed consecutive five hitting errors over the next several points, and FDU climbed within four, 19-15
• An FDU service error put SHU at 20, and then Murawinski had two kills as the Pioneers finished with five of the last seven points 

Set 3

• The Pioneers trailed just once in a final set that saw five ties, through 7-7
• Scioletti and Murawinski blocked a Mambu swing to break that tie and put the Pioneers on a 4-0 run, that extended to 9-1
• SHU committed only three errors in the third set, hitting .486. that helped an 18-5 run after the 7-7 tie