MANKATO, Minn. – The St. Olaf College volleyball team hit .318 on its way to a 25-19, 25-9, 25-17 sweep of non-conference foe Bethany Lutheran College on Wednesday night at North Gym.

St. Olaf (8-4) continued its dominance of the all-time series with Bethany Lutheran (3-10) by sweeping aside the Vikings for the Oles' 18th victory in the 19 meetings between the two programs. The win was St. Olaf's ninth in a row dating back to Bethany Lutheran's lone win in 2014 and the Oles have won 27 of the 30 sets played over the last nine meetings.

Seniors Anysia Caille and Catherine Moore combined for 24 kills to lead the way offensively for St. Olaf, which hit over .300 as a team for the second time this season. Caille was in double figures for the seventh match in a row with a match-high 14 while hitting .500. Moore had double-digit kills for the fifth consecutive match with 10 on the night.

First year Lilah Van Scoyoc and fifth-year senior Christina Cheng added seven kills apiece, with Cheng doing so on just nine swings in her return from injury. Sophomore Paige Christophersen and first year Skylar Fildew orchestrated the offense with 16 assists apiece and combined for five of the Oles' nine aces in the win.

Fifth-year senior Selena Rodriguez became the ninth student-athlete in program history to record at least 1,400 digs by registering a match-high 16 to bring her career total to 1,403. Rodriguez was the lone Ole in double figures in digs while also adding nine assists and an ace.

Despite being outhit by a .269 to .242 margin, St. Olaf never trailed in the opening set on its way to a 25-19 set win in the closest set of the match. The Oles led by eight at 14-6 before the Vikings closed the gap to 15-11 with a 5-1 run, but St. Olaf took its largest lead of the set at 23-14 following one of Christophersen's two aces in the set and eventually closed it out. Six Oles had multiple kills in the set.

In the second set, St. Olaf hit an even .400 while getting six kills from Caille and four from Moore to take the set by a commanding 25-9 score. With the score tied at 8-8, the Oles won 17 of the final 18 points of the set to account for the commanding 25-9 differential. Caille contributed four kills during a 9-0 run to break the tie and, after a service error, St. Olaf won the final eight points of the set, including two kills apiece from Cheng and Moore in a four-point stretch.

Like the first set, the Oles led all the way in the third set to close out its fourth sweep of the season and its fourth win in a row. Caille, Moore, Cheng, and Van Scoyoc combined for 17 of St. Olaf's 18 kills in the set, as the Oles used an early 8-0 run to take an 11-2 lead and led by at least six the rest of the way. St. Olaf's four-match winning streak is its longest since also posting four-straight victories from Oct. 23 through Nov. 3, 2021.

St. Olaf hosts Nebraska Wesleyan University and Saint Mary's University in a triangular on Saturday, Sept. 30. The Oles take on the Prairie Wolves at 2 p.m. and the Cardinals at 6 p.m.