NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia - Mount Union won two matches Friday night -- 3-0 over Berry (Ga.) and 3-1 over Johns Hopkins (Md.) and senior Nicole Snyder (Mentor/Lake Catholic) became the 12th Mount Union volleyball player to reach the 1,000 kill milestone at the Christopher Newport (Va.) Tournament.

Going into the weekend Snyder needed only two kills to reach the 1,000 kill benchmark. Snyder got those two kills out of the way in the first set in Mount Union's first game against Berry (Ga.). She would go on to tally six more kills, finishing with eight, in a 25-14, 25-20, 25-12 straight set victory.

The Purple Raiders (8-0) also got a team-high nine kills from junior Kara Berger (Mentor/Mentor) and seven more from senior Melanie Patterson (Mentor/Lake Catholic) in the first game on Friday.

Mount Union received a 22 assist and six dig performance from senior Sarah Schleich (Westfield Center/Cloverleaf) and a 24 dig performance by senior Lauren Mastroine (Orrville/Orrville).

In the second game the Raiders got off to a slow start losing the first set but regained their winning ways beating Johns Hopkins (Md.) in four sets 21-25, 25-16, 25-21, 25-17. The first set loss breaks a streak of 13 consecutive sets won by Mount Union dating back to August 30.

Freshman Elise Nickoli (Monroeville/Norwalk St. Paul) led the Raider defense with 19 digs. Mastroine added six digs and now has 1,739 digs in her career. She needs only 11 digs to move into third place on Mount Union's career digs leaderboard.

Berger and Snyder added nine kills apiece in game two for the Raiders.

The volleyball team is back in action tomorrow at 2pm against William Peace (N.C.) and 4pm against No. 13 Christopher Newport (Va.) in the Christopher Newport Tournament.