ROCHESTER, New York - After splitting matches the first two weekends of the season, the American International College women's volleyball team went undefeated at the Redhawk Invitational. After winning a pair of matches the night before, the Yellow Jackets swept the hosts Roberts Wesleyan to end the weekend. For their play over the weekend sophomore setter Naomi Eckert-Rivera earned first team all-tournament honors while rookie outside hitter Paola Alejandra Soto-Burgos was named to the second team.

FAST FACTS:
Final Scores: AIC 3, Roberts Wesleyan 0
Set Scores: 25-16, 25-15, 25-18
Record: AIC moves to 7-4, RWU falls to 0-9
Location: Voller Athletic Center Rochester, New York

STAT LEADERS:
AIC:
Paola Alejandra Soto-Burgos: 13 kills, three digs, .524 hitting percentage. 13.5 points
Andrea Serra-Rosa: eight kills, three digs, nine points
Naomi Eckert-Rivera: 32 assists, five digs
Amanda Rodriguez: 26 digs, two aces

Roberts Wesleyan:
Sydney Yanak: five kills, five points
Rowlinson Emily: 13 assists
Tegan Weber: 14 digs

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• The Yellow Jackets continued their roll last the night before as they came out to a 6-2 lead. AIC continued to control the pace of play and led 15-11 when rookie Paola Alejandra Soto-Burgos started a run with a kill. Rookie Dora Butkvoic and second-year Mai-Lani Hernandez stuffed a Redhawk attack to inch the Yellow Jackets closer to 25. The Redhawks scored a point before AIC took the next six points to make it 23-12, ultimately taking the set 25-16.
• Knotted at a point in the second set, the Yellow Jackets used kills by sophomore Janae Kelly and Butkovic, an ace by Kelly, and forcing three Redhawk errors to take the 7-1 lead. AIC kept the tempo moving and continued to widen their lead to as many as nine with a score of 15-6.
• Leading 18-12, Soto-Burgos started another run that included an ace by Kelly, a kill by freshman Aleksandra Ivanovic, two more kills from Soto-Burgos, and a block by Soto-Burgos and Ivanovic. The final point of the set came off a pass from sophomore Naomi Eckert-Rivera to Soto-Burgos who finished with authority.
• With the taste of a clean weekend in the loss column, the Yellow Jackets kept the pedal to the metal and did not look in the rearview mirror. The inflection point of the match came when AIC led 12-10 as the fast tempo forced two Redhawks errors follow by another kill from Soto-Burgos. Roberts Wesleyan gained a point before newcomer Amber Williams add a tally to her kill total. Classmate Ulrika Blomgren recorded an ace followed by a kill from the hot hand of Soto-Burgos. Junior Amanda Rodriguez ended the match with a skillfully placed ace to give AIC 25 points.

NEXT UP:

• The Yellow Jackets open their Northeast-10 Conference season at the University of New Haven on Tuesday, September 21 at 7 p.m.