Final Stats

New Haven, Conn. -- Junior Nicole Vogel notched her team-leading 13th double-double of the season on 20 assists and 13 digs, but the Stony Brook volleyball team fell to Yale in straight sets (25-17, 25-12, 25-12) Tuesday night at Lee Amphitheater. The Seawolves finish the season with 17 wins, the most for the program since winning 24 games in 2007.

Redshirt junior Kathy Fletcher led Stony Brook (17-15) with seven kills, and senior Taylor Gillie added six kills in the final match of her collegiate career.

Yale, which will play in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight year, improved to 18-7. 

Head Coach Coley Pawlikowski's Reaction

"We are thankful to the opportunity to play a strong opponent in Yale tonight to end our 2014 season. They are a really solid top-to-bottom team. This year, we continued to make improvements and definitely saw growth out of our group. My staff and I are proud of the direction our team is going as we continue to take the next step. We are eager for spring practices to begin so that we can stay the path."

Recap

• Fletcher tallied six kills, but SBU dropped the first frame, 25-17. A Fletcher smack kept the Seawolves within striking distance early on, 8-5, but the Bulldogs used an 8-1 run thereafter to grab a commanding 16-6 advantage.  
• The second set began as a back-and-forth affair. After Stephanie McFadden hammered one home to even the set at 8-all, Yale recorded three of the next four points to pull ahead, 12-9. An Evann Slaughter kill got the Seawolves within two, 12-10. However, Yale rattled off five unanswered points in the moments that followed for a 17-10 lead. 
• Similar to the second stanza, a McFadden kill knotted the score at 8-8, but Yale responded with a 7-0 run.  

By the Numbers

• Fletcher assisted on both of Stony Brook's blocks. Yale out-blocked the Seawolves, 3-2. 
• McFadden recorded five kills on six swings for a .555 hitting percentage.
• Gillie recorded two aces and one block. 

News and Notes

• Slaughter wraps up her career second in school history in block assists (273), third in total blocks (354) and 10th in kills (1,024). She became the 10th player in program history to tally her 1,000th career kill at UMass Lowell Nov. 14. 
• Gillie finishes her career third on Stony Brook's all-time block assists ledger (260) and eighth in blocks (290). She tallied 112 block assists in 2014, the second-most in Division I program history.
• Senior Hannah Dolan dished 1,330 assists during her four-year career, which ranks 10th all-time at Stony Brook.