NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College volleyball team celebrated its three graduating seniors prior to sweeping crosstown-rival Carleton College in its regular-season finale on Senior Night on Saturday evening at Skoglund Center.

St. Olaf (13-12, 8-3 MIAC) used a season-high 12 aces to secure its third-straight victory over Carleton (6-20, 1-10 MIAC), limiting the Knights to a .159 attack percentage in the victory. The Oles had already locked up the No. 4 seed in next week's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoffs heading into the match.

Before the match, St. Olaf recognized seniors Brynne Gray, Amanda Honsey, and Meredith LaVine and their families on the court. All three seniors played in the match, with Gray contributing 16 assists and nine digs and LaVine tallying three aces.

Sophomore Catherine Moore had a match-high nine kills while hitting .350 in the win for St. Olaf, which hit .237 as a team. Middles Katelyn Lannom and Nicole Banitt recorded eight kills apiece and Lannom added three aces as well. First year Madison Gully chipped in with seven kills of her own, while first year Waverly Thao handed out a match-high 18 assists.

Three Oles had at least three aces in the win, led by sophomore Kylie Reardon's season-high-tying total of four. Lannom and LaVine had three aces apiece, while Thao and junior Christina Cheng each had one.

St. Olaf quickly jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the first set thanks in part to two early aces by Lannom. The Oles had six of their 12 aces on the night in the opening set, including three by LaVine on a stretch of four points late in the set.

In the second set, St. Olaf used a 4-0 run to build an 18-12 cushion and led by at least three the rest of the way. Carleton hung around late in the set but the Oles' got sideouts at an 80 percent clip in the set to take a two-sets-to-none lead. Moore had four kills on six errorless swings in the set.

After recording just one ace in the second set, the Oles racked up five in the third on their way to closing out the sweep. The Knights were within a point late in the set at 21-20 before Banitt recorded a kill leading to a Carleton timeout. Out of the stoppage, St. Olaf won the next three points to post the sweep.

The fourth-seeded Oles will host fifth-seeded Augsburg University in the quarterfinals of the MIAC Playoffs on Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.