SAINT LEO, Fla. – A hot handed No. 23 Saint Leo volleyball bounced back from a loss earlier this week to sweep Florida Tech in straight sets, 3-0 (28-26, 25-15, 25-21) in Sunshine State Conference play inside the Marion Bowman Activities Center.
 
The Lions (21-6, 15-4 SSC) finished with a team hitting percentage of .287 where they hit a .222 in the opening set followed by a .371 second, with just two attack errors, and finished with a .286 third.
 
Victoria Omoregie led the Lions offensively landing 10 kills on 19 attempts to finish with a .421 hitting percentage. Omoregie added two digs and one block on the night.
 
Britt Sederholm found herself hitting .409 with nine kills with no errors on 20 attempts. Sederholm tallied four digs and recorded one block as well. Sederholm's four digs pushed her to 1,006 in her four-year career.
 
Anna Garrett and Maddy Powell split duties in the middle as Garrett finished with 26 assists and eight digs while Powell finished with 10 assists and four digs. Powell led the way in percentage with a .417 as Garrett finished at .361.
 
Jenya Kruglova would scoop up a match-high 18 digs on the night.

Florida Tech (9-16, 4-15 SSC) was led by Olivia Hersey who notched eight kills while Kiersten Rosa dished out 24 assists. A trio of Panthers eclipsed double-digits in digs led by Kyra Atkinson with 11. Rosa capped off her double-double with 10 digs while Nicole Fortuna chipped in with 10 as well. 
 
Saint Leo 28-26 | In the opening set, the Lions jumped out to a quick 3-1 lead before pushing it to a 7-2 lead, forcing a Florida Tech timeout. The Panthers wouldn't go down easy as they charged back and forced a Saint Leo timeout shy of the Lions' lead, 19-16. FIT would continue to push and tie things at 20-20 before the two teams would play even, trading the lead, before Britt Sederholm and Annabella Arcari would notch back-to-back kills to put the first set in the Lions' corner 28-26.
 
Saint Leo 25-15 | A red-hot Saint Leo team charged out of the gates in the second set where the Green and Gold ran out to a 6-0 lead after the set opened with three straight attack errors from the Panthers followed by three straight kills for the Lions, from Dallas Jasper, Victoria Omoregie and Nina Vattovaz. The Panthers would score their first point of the set out of the timeout, before the Lions would continue to roll and push their lead to 10, 15-5, and hold an 18-8 lead at the final Florida Tech timeout. Despite the Panthers outscoring the Lions 7-6 over the final 13 points, the Lions would claim their second set at 25-15.
 
Saint Leo 25-21 | Out of the break, Saint Leo would pick up where it left off and took a 3-1 lead. The Panthers would claw themselves back into the set, and tie things at 7-7. Florida Tech would capture its first lead of the set at 8-7, on an out of rotation call on the Lions. Both Saint Leo and Florida Tech would go back-and-forth over the next several points before Saint Leo took a 20-18 lead on a block by Dallas Jasper and Anna Garrett. The Lions would close out the set and match outscoring the Panthers 5-3 as Ashley Quero landed three of the final five points for the Green and Gold.
 
Saint Leo returns to action on Saturday, Nov. 18 when it hosts Embry-Riddle at 4 p.m. in the Marion Bowman Activities Center. Prior to the start of play, the Lions will honor their four seniors, Maddy Powell, Paloma Da Silva, Britt Sederholm and Jenya Kruglova.
 
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