BROCKPORT, N.Y. – The St. John Fisher College women's volleyball team took down the St. Lawrence Saints in four sets (25-14, 22-25, 25-19, 25-12) on Friday night at the Brockport Invite. The Empire 8 Regular Season Champion Cardinals moved to 21-8 on the year while St. Lawrence, ranked ninth in the New York Regional Rankings, drops to 21-8 this season.

Sophomore Alea Steigerwald led all players in kills and digs with 15 and 14 respectively. Junior Rebecca Hay earned a game-high 26 assists while adding 11 digs.

Fisher hit .312 in the opening set. A 4-0 run and a 6-0 run fueled a commanding lead for the Cardinals. A Steigerwald kill earned set point which Fisher converted on the first attempt.

The Saints started the second set hot but the Cardinals stormed back and scored 10-straight points to take a 17-14 edge. St. Lawrence would later recapture the lead and take the stanza to tie things up at one set a piece.

The pivotal third set was back and forth until at 20-19 the Cardinals took advantage of four straight attack errors by the Saints to earn set point at 24-19. Sophomore Kara Kingsbury would set up her fellow classmate Steigerwald for the point, giving Fisher a two-to-one lead.

The Cardinals kept the momentum of the third going into the fourth set with earning a 12-3 advantage to open things up. Fisher would never trail as a six-point run pushed the lead to 19-6. Freshman Lauren Gilbert had the kill on match point with sophomore Julia Halsey recording the assist.

Freshman Lindsey DeBonis put up 11 kills while Gilbert had 10 kills while hitting .320 on the night. Steigerwald hit .294 and also led the team in service aces with three.

Fisher finishes it regular season schedule on Saturday with a pair of matches at Brockport. The Cardinals face Clarkson University at 1:30 p.m. and then go head-to-head with the host Golden Eagles at 3:30 p.m.