WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – In a game that most would've chalked up as a No. 3 Palm Beach Atlantic win, Saint Leo volleyball traveled to Rubin Arena and upset the third-ranked team in the country. The win didn't only serve as getting revenge on the team that handed the Green and Gold their first loss of the season, but it snapped the Sailfish's 20-game win streak and gave the Sailfish their first loss of the season. This marked the first time since 2014 the Sailfish have lost at home, and is the first win over PBA for Saint Leo. 
 
Saint Leo improves to 15-5 overall and 9-3 in the Sunshine State Conference where Palm Beach Atlantic moves to 20-1, 12-1 SSC. The Lions took the opening set 25-12 before dropping the second, 25-20. The Green and Gold outlasted the Sailfish in a 33-31 third set to take a 2-1 lead. PBA came back and took the fourth, 25-21, before the Lions took the fifth 15-13.
 
Four Lions recorded double-digit kill performances led by Britt Sederholm who notched a match-high 17 kills. Sederholm capped her double-double with 14 digs on the night. Dallas Jasper slammed down 12 kills, tied with Victoria Omoregie who finished the night with a .265 hitting percentage.
 
Back into action, Annabella Arcari landed 12 kills on a team-best .385 clip for the evening. Anna Garrett continues to rack up double-doubles with yet another one with 59 assists and 11 digs.
 
Jenya Kruglova and Reggie Van Devender were all over the court as Kruglova scooped up 31 digs and Van Devender at 20.
 
Saint Leo on the night finished with a team hitting percentage of .202 where the Green and Gold held the Sailfish to just a .165, after hitting .051 in the opening set.
 
 
Saint Leo 25-12 | The Sailfish jumped on the board first with a kill from Raegan Grooms before the Lions raced out to a 10-5 lead, forcing a Sailfish timeout. The Lions would push their lead to seven, 18-11 before PBA called its second timeout. Saint Leo closed the set outscoring the Sailfish 7-1 with Ashley Quero slamming down the 24^th and 25^th points. The Lions finished the first set with a .355 hitting percentage behind Britt Sederholm's three kills on nine attempts.
 
Palm Beach Atlantic 25-20 | Saint Leo opened up the second set with the first point before falling behind 8-4. An Annabella Arcari kill moved it to 8-5 where the Lions would rally to tie it up at 9-9 with two more kills from Arcari. PBA would make a run to open the second set back up to a four-point set before the Lions made their run to close it to two 18-16. After the Sailfish moved to a 20-16 lead, Director of Volleyball Sam Cibrone called his first timeout. When PBA scored two of three points out of the timeout and claimed a 22-17 lead, Cibrone once again called a timeout. Both teams would go even over the remainder of the set, finishing at 3-3 where PBA tied the match at 1-1.
 
Saint Leo 33-31 | The two teams played even in the start of the third set, where neither team would gain more than a one-point advantage before the Sailfish went up 11-9 on an attack error by the Lions. Saint Leo tied it up at 11-11, where both teams once again played even until PBA climbed out to a 17-14 lead, looking as if they had the third set in command. After a timeout by Saint Leo, the Lions would rally and go on a 6-3 run to tie it up at 20-20. The fight wouldn't stop there, for either team, where PBA would move out by one point, but the Lions came right back to tie it. The first time the Lions would hold a lead in the third set was at 25-24 on a Nina Vattovaz kill. Saint Leo and Palm Beach Atlantic would exchange points, and both held leads late in the set before senior Britt Sederholm wanted the third, and scored three of the final five points in the set, while the Lions outlasted the Sailfish 33-31 to take a lead in the match.
 
Palm Beach Atlantic 25-21 | Coming right back at it, the Sailfish sprinted out to a 5-0 lead, and going out to a 16-9 lead, forcing the Lions to use their second timeout. After the timeout, the Green and Gold raced to catch up, cutting the deficit to 21-18 but couldn't overcome the margin the Sailfish had before PBA won the fourth set 25-21.
 
Saint Leo 15-13 | Saint Leo earned the first point on a Dallas Jasper kill but fell behind after two straight points went to the 'fish. PBA would lead 6-5 before Saint Leo scored three to take an 8-6 lead at the switch. PBA tied things up at 9-9 and took a 10-9 lead before the Lions tied it up 12-12 on a Jasper kill. Back-to-back attack errors by Raegen Grooms saw the Lions regain a lead at 14-12 before Britt Sederholm slammed the game-winner down to take the final set 15-13.
 
Saint Leo remains on the road and heads to Winter Park on Oct. 28 to take on Rollins at 4 p.m.
 
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