No. 2 Pitt Aces Test At Boston College

Friday, October 2

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

7 PM

Pitt

13-0,3-0ACC

Boston College

10-4,1-2ACC

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Pittsburgh	25	25	26	3
Boston College	15	12	24	0

No. 2 Pitt Aces Test At Boston College

10/2/2026 9:40:00 PM | Volleyball

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BOSTON, MASS. – No. 2 Pitt recorded a season-high 10 service aces and the Panthers swept aside Boston College 25-15, 25-12, 26-24 Friday night on the road. Pitt improved to 13-0 on the season and 3-0 in ACC play, while Boston College fell to 10-4 and 1-2 in league action.

Haiti Tautua'a had a career-high five aces, including four during an 11-0 Pitt run that stamped victory in the opening set. Pitt rallied from a 23-19 deficit in the third set with a 7-1 run, highlighted by four Olivia Babcock kills down the stretch, for the sweep.

FIRST SET

Pitt used a 11-0 scoring run, with four aces from Haiti Tautua'a, to break away from a 6-6 tie.
From there, the Panthers cruised to the 25-15 victory

SECOND SET

Pitt's service onslaught continued but BC cut an early four-point deficit down to one at 10-9.
BC stayed within one at 11-10 but Pitt went on a 14-2 run to close out the second set. The Panthers scored the final nine points of the frame.

THIRD SET

Pitt jumped out to an early 6-2 advantage, but the Boston College block gave the Eagles a lift.
BC built a 16-13 lead and slowed the Pitt offense temporarily.
Pitt momentarily tied the score at 18-18 but Boston College scored five of the next six points to build the lead to four at 23-19.
The Panthers wouldn't go away and scored the next three points on two kills and a block that forced a Boston College timeout.
Out of the break, Babcock posted her 13^th kill of the match to tie the score but Boston College answered to earn a set point at 24-23.
A service error tied the score once more at 24-24 and Babcock terminated an Izzy Starck pass for the 25-24 lead.
On match point, Babcock came up with another kill for the 26-24 victory.

NOTABLE

Haiti Tautua'a finished with a career-high five aces to lead Pitt from the service line. In total, six players had at least one ace with five other Panthers recording one each.
Olivia Babcock had a team-high 15 kills and hit .364. She added four digs, three blocks and an ace.
Jordyn Dailey had eight kills on 11 swings from the middle, hitting .727.
Trinity Thompson had a second consecutive double-digit dig night, posting 11 after having a career-high 14 against Stanford in the team's last match. As a team, Pitt outdug Boston College 42-39.
Mallorie Meyer and Izzy Starck had eight digs each.
Pitt hit .273 for the match and held BC to a .129 attack percentage. It snapped a streak of six straight matches in which the Panthers hit at least .300.
Pitt improves to 41-1 all-time against Boston College and has won 23 straight in the series.
The Panthers have now won 24 consecutive sets, closing in on last year's season-long 26-set win streak.
At 13-0, Pitt has tied the 1975 team for the fourth-best unbeaten start to a season in program history.
Pitt improves to 166-20 (.892) since the start of the 2021 season, the best record in NCAA Division I women's volleyball over that time frame. Pitt is 88-9 (.907) in ACC matches over that time.
Pitt leads the country with a .328 attack percentage and has hit at least .300 for six straight matches, reaching .400 three times. In total, Pitt has hit at least .300 in 8-of-12 contests
In breaking the school's single-season kills record a year ago, Olivia Babcock had 212 kills through 13 matches. She has 217 through 13 matches this year.
Olivia Babcock posted her 174^th career ace and now needs one to tie Lindsey Zitzke (175 from 2011-14) for the program record.
Pitt entered the match ranked No. 3 nationally with 3.08 blocks per set. The Panthers posted 10 in three sets Friday, led by Maaike Heilig with five.