INSTITUTE, W.Va. (Oct. 12) - Led by three players with double-digit kills, the No. 20 Wheeling Jesuit volleyball team posted a 3-0 win (25-13, 25-21, 25-17) over West Virginia State in a Mountain East Conference (MEC) match Friday night. 

The Cardinals improve to 20-3 overall, 7-0 in league play. Meanwhile, the Yellow Jackets fall to 4-4 in the MEC, 18-8 overall.

Junior Haley Kramer (Norwalk, Ohio/Monroeville) led the team with 14 kills and six blocks, while sophomore Makenna Babb (Arlington, Ohio/McComb) chipped in a kill-dig double-double with 12 kills and 17 digs. Sophomore Cassie Meyer (Jackson Center, Ohio/Jackson Center) turned in a balanced line with 11 kills, four blocks (one solo) and five digs.

Sophomore Audrey Francis (Sidney, Ohio/Fairlawn) led the defense with 21 digs, while junior Stephanie Sylvester (Oregon, Ohio/St. Ursula Academy) finished with 44 assists and 10 digs in the win.

West Virginia State played the first set close and trailed 9-8 early on, before the Cardinals flexed their muscle and went on a 16-to-5 run to close out a 25-13 first-set win.

The Yellow Jackets looked poised to take a set from Wheeling Jesuit in the second set, leading 19-16, before the Cardinals closed the set by claiming nine of the next 11 points to win 25-21 and take a 2-0 lead in the match.

WJU finished off West Virginia State in straight sets with a solid 25-17 win in the third set. The Cardinals never trailed in the set and kept the Yellow Jackets at bay to earn the clean sweep.

West Virginia State's Gabrielle Bullock led her team with 18 kills in the loss.

The Cardinals are back in action tomorrow, Saturday, October 13 when they travel to the capital city to take on Charleston in a matchup of top-four teams in the MEC at 4 p.m.