CALDWELL, N.J. –  For the fourth consecutive meeting, Post University Women's Volleyball swept past Caldwell University, trailing only by a point on three occasions in set three en route to their first conference win of the season, 3-0, and continuing their program-best start to the season at now 7-0 with the Wednesday night road win down in New Jersey. Graduate outside hitter Kristina Peric led the attack with 10 kills, followed by freshman outside hitter Elyana Ortiz with seven kills in the victory. 

THE BASICS

Post University 3, Caldwell University 0

Post University (7-0, 1-0 CACC)

Caldwell University (0-8, 0-1 CACC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
Post attacked at a season-high .439 percentage, their best since October 22nd of last year against the Cougars on the road when the Eagles swept them in three sets with a .467 attack percentage. In set one alone, 12 kills on 18 attempts with no errors led the way for Post to have a .667 attack percentage and lead by as many as 18 points, 24-6, before a 3-0 run from Caldwell ahead of the set point cut the margin of victory down to 16 points, 25-9. The Cougar offense struggled all night, attacking at a .082 clip with a first set that featured five errors and a game-low .036 attack percentage. 

Rolling through the second set to a nine-point win, 25-16, the first real taste of adversity for the Eagles came in set three when freshman right-side hitter Meredith Gatz started a 2-0 run for the Cougars to give them their first lead of the evening in a set, 2-1. That would be the first of three times in which Caldwell took a one-point advantage, with the last time coming by the way of a 6-5 score before an 8-0 run by Post led to a dominant 25-15 finish to the set and match. When all was set and done, Post finished the match committing just seven errors, with the most coming in the second set with five, while Caldwell fluctuated throughout, ending with 15 errors on the evening. 

Graduate setter Alice DiFrancesco accounted for 28 of the 34 assists the Eagles had in the game as Peric led the way with 10 kills on 24 attempts and only four errors for a .250 attack percentage. Ortiz was equally as impressive with her seven kills, which came on 13 tries with only one error, leading to a .462 attack percentage as she and Peric finished the night with the most attempts. Digs and blocks came at a premium as both teams had just two block assists each, and while the Eagles had 35 digs to only 21 for Caldwell, senior libero Alyssa Groves led all players with only 13 digs. 

Senior outside hitter Wyette Schubert-Brown recorded a team-best eight kills on 19 attempts for Caldwell, finishing with a .263 attack percentage, making up nearly half of the 21 total kills the Cougars had in the game. Three players for Post in Groves, junior outside hitter Vivien Andrea Fehervari, and sophomore outside hitter Rayssa Satlher all finished with three service aces towards the team's 13 total after the three-set win. 

 BY THE NUMBERS

• Kristina Peric is closing in on 1,000 career kills between her time at Quinnipiac University, American International College (AIC), and Post University – After 10 kills tonight, Peric now has 942 career kills
• Sitting at 2,021 career digs after tonight's match, Alyssa Groves is only 512 digs away from surpassing Chestnut Hill College's Regina Trabosh for the most digs in CACC history, with 2,533 career digs from 2013-16
• Between her time at AIC and Post University, Alice DiFrancesco entered the night with 1,583 career assists, and with 28 assists tonight, sits just 389 assists away from 2,000 in her career
• Starting the season 7-0, this is the best start Post University has had in program history, with the previous best being 2-0 in 2002 and 2004 -- The Eagles have won five of their last six matches against Mercy University in the all-time series

WHO'S NEXT
Post University will host a tri-match this Saturday featuring Saint Michael's College and St. Thomas Aquinas College in the Drubner Center at 11:00 AM when they take on the Purple Knights. The two visiting teams will square off at 1:00 PM before the Eagles close out the afternoon against the Spartans at 3:00 PM.