BEVERLY, Mass. - The win streak is now up to seven as the No. 12 ranked Wesleyan volleyball team swept Endicott, 28-26, 25-21, 25-14, on Friday night from the MacDonald Gymnasium. Wesleyan now boasts an overall record of 16-1 while the Gulls are now 14-5.

As a team. Wesleyan hit .339 for the night, their third-highest single-game attack percentage on the season. Scoring 58 kills, Sophia Lindus '26 led the way once again with 17 as the continues to lead the NESCAC in kills with 188 on the season. The Cardinals tallied 53 digs, tied for the second-highest single-game total in a three set match this season. Jenna Otaola '22 and Grace Bell '23 tied for the team-lead with 12 each. Bianca Ortiz '24 added eight. 

Kathryn Morton '24 was unstoppable in the middle for Wesleyan, recording a career-high attack percentage of .684 as she tallied 14 kills with one error in 19 attempts. Michelle Jorba '25 added 13 kills, hitting .345 and Bella Ahearn '23 hit .500 with 10 kills, giving the Cardinals four players with double-digit kill totals. Another career-high on the night came from Zoe Swift '25 who hit .750 with three kills on four attemps. Grace Dennis '23 was the primary setter all night, recording an impressive 48 assists, her most-ever in a three set match, with nine digs. 

Endicott hit .241 as a team, totaling 41 kills and 49 digs. Kelsey Sanborn led with 10 kills, followed by Krystina Schueler with nine and Sophie Breitenbach with eight. Setters Ella Koelb and Lauren McGrath split the duties throughout the night, finishing with 19 and 17 assists, respectively. 

In the first set, the Cardinals pulled ahead of the Gulls getting to 18-12, until Endicott went on an 8-2 run to tie up the score 20 apiece. At this point, each team went point for point until the Cardinals got to set point at 24-22. Despite having multiple set points, Wesleyan saw Endicott push ahead and have a set point of their own at 25-24 and later at 26-25. The Cardinals, unfazed by the home support cheering for the Gulls, dealt with the pressure well and rattled off three straight points featuring a kill from Jorba, block from Morton and Lindus, and capped by a Lindus kill to give Weslyean a well-earned 28-26 win.

Early in the second set, Ortiz went on a 6-point service run that gave the Cardinals a four-point lead early on. Endicott and Wesleyan went back and forth, with the Cardinals holding the lead, but by no more than four points the entire set. Eventually, Wesleyan finished off the set with a 25-21 victory. 

The first 10 points of the third set were close until Wesleyan started grasping the advantage. Another service run from Ortiz saw the Cardinal lead ballon up to 17-10 and the Gulls had dug themselves in a hole that they could not get out of. Wesleyan finished the third set and the match with a 10-point lead, 25-15, against an Endicott team that is undefeated in Commonwealth Coast Conference play.

With momentum firmly on their side, the Cardinals are ready for their 8th NESCAC match at Noon tomorrow. They face a great test in the Bowdoin Polar Bears, the reigning NESCAC Champion, who defeated Wesleyan twice last season including by a 3-1 margin in the NESCAC title match played in Brunswick.