Rhode Island vs Dayton Volleyball: Dayton Wins 3-1 (Nov 7)

Final · 4 setsSat, Nov 7, 2026ESPN+

1:3

RallyIQ pre-match: Dayton 99.0% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Nov 7, 10:55 AM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Dayton beat visiting Rhode Island 3-1 (25-19, 22-25, 25-15, 25-10) on Sat, Nov 7, 2026. Dayton's Kamryn Hunt led with 15 kills.

Data through Nov 10, 6:20 PM CT · final Nov 7

Set	1	2	3	4	Sets
URI	19	25	15	10	1
DAYTON	25	22	25	25	3

Match story · written from the play-by-play

A 7–0 run in the fourth set broke it open for Dayton.

The biggest single-rally swing was 0.8 points, and Rhode Island's high was 4% in Set 2. The gap came from these numbers. Dayton went in as RallyIQ's 99% pick.

Rhode IslandDayton

Break %+18.8 pts
34.353.1
On serve: 51/96 against 24/70 (Rhode Island sideout 46.9%).
Hitting+.176
.138.314
Kills and errors: 56–19 vs 35–20.
Longest run+3
47
7 straight Dayton points in the fourth set turned a 0–3 deficit into a 7–3 lead. Final score of the set: 25–10.

Dayton above 50Rhode Island belowMax swing 0.8%

Rhode IslandDayton

Aces: Rhode Island 6·Dayton 16
Serve err: Rhode Island 4·Dayton 8
Blocks: Rhode Island 11·Dayton 133 BS · 16 BA vs 4 BS · 18 BA
Digs: Rhode Island 38·Dayton 45

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Dayton above 50 · Rhode Island below

No single rally moved win probability by a full point: Dayton stayed the heavy favorite throughout.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

URI 1.0%99.0% DAYTON

Rhode Island wins

3-0

0.1%

3-1

0.2%

3-2

0.7%

Dayton wins

3-0

74.1%

3-1

21.1%

3-2

3.8%

URI break %: 33.9% vs this opp
DAYTON break %: 51.7% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Box score

Official NCAA box

Rhode Islandaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
13Havyn RolleOH	4	7	1	19	.316	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	3	11
17Cara RichterOH	4	6	7	25	-.040	1	2	2	5	3	0	1	0.5	8.5
7McKenna MeltonOH	4	5	3	21	.095	1	1	1	3	4	0	0	0	6
12Chloe AbutoOH	4	4	1	13	.231	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	2	6
25Grace KeaneyOH	4	2	2	7	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	3
2Jahan LalliS	4	2	0	2	1.000	10	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
18Emily SawyerMB	4	9	6	22	.136	0	0	0	3	0	2	5	4.5	13.5
16Ema StermenskaS	4	0	0	0	–	16	1	1	7	0	0	0	0	1
20Dakota HenryL/DS	4	0	0	0	–	4	0	0	14	1	0	0	0	0
3Sydney HouchensOH	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
4Reagan NisbetDS	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Team totals		35	20	109	.138	32	6	4	38	16	3	16	11	69

Daytonhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
2Kamryn HuntOH	4	15	5	29	.345	0	3	1	12	1	0	0	0	18
3Abigail CresseMB	4	8	2	13	.462	0	2	2	1	0	2	6	5	15
19Charlotte VinsonOH	4	10	1	18	.500	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	1.5	11.5
22Sidney SpradaOH	4	3	3	13	.000	1	5	1	3	0	0	1	0.5	8.5
20Ava LieningMB	4	5	0	8	.625	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3.5	8.5
9Natalie HarringtonS	4	0	1	1	-1.000	26	2	1	7	0	0	0	0	2
1Kaleigh MerittOH	4	10	3	23	.304	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	11
16Gabriela Machin BorgesOH	4	4	3	9	.111	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	1.5	5.5
12Rylee SlossS	4	1	0	2	.500	18	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	3
8Morgan AslesonL/DS	4	0	0	0	–	1	2	1	11	0	0	0	0	2
31Lily BarryL/DS	4	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0
5Corrie AndersonOH	1	0	1	2	-.500	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		56	19	118	.314	50	16	8	45	6	4	18	13	97

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Rhode Island vs Dayton

Season series · Dayton leads 2-0

Fri, Nov 6, 2026Rhode Island at Dayton · Dayton won 3-0Result →
Sat, Nov 7, 2026Rhode Island at Dayton · Dayton won 3-1This match

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 4 URI · DAYTON 7

Set 1

19-25

Longest run 3 URIDAYTON 4

Set 2

25-22

Longest run 4 URIDAYTON 3

Set 3

15-25

Longest run 2 URIDAYTON 5

Set 4

10-25

Longest run 3 URIDAYTON 7

Bars above the line = Dayton leads, below = Rhode Island leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Rhode Island

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	30%6/20	46%6/13
2	60%6/10	33%3/9
3	36%5/14	50%5/10
4	63%5/8	44%4/9
5	71%5/7	0%0/5
6	42%5/12	0%0/5
All	45%32/71	35%18/51

Dayton

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	58%7/12	50%5/10
2	60%6/10	68%13/19
3	50%5/10	57%8/14
4	63%5/8	50%5/10
5	100%5/5	29%2/7
6	83%5/6	55%6/11
All	65%33/51	55%39/71

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (3 of 4 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

166 rallies

#	URI-DAYTON	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	1-0	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Grace Keaney	set Jahan Lalli
2	1-1	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
3	1-2	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Sidney Sprada	aced McKenna Melton
4	1-3	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt
5	2-3	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Dakota Henry
6	2-4	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Charlotte Vinson
7	2-5	DAYTON	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
8	3-5	DAYTON	URI	Kill	McKenna Melton	set Ema Stermenska
9	3-6	URI	DAYTON×3	Attack err	Emily Sawyer
10	3-7	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Rylee Sloss
11	3-8	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Morgan Asleson
12	4-8	DAYTON	URI	Attack err	Sidney Sprada
13	4-9	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Gabriela Machin Borges	set Rylee Sloss
14	5-9	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Kamryn Hunt
15	6-9	URI	URI	Ace	Rhode Island	aced Kamryn Hunt
16	6-10	URI	DAYTON	Attack err	Cara Richter
17	7-10	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Jahan Lalli
18	7-11	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Rylee Sloss
19	7-12	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt
20	7-13	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
21	8-13	DAYTON	URI×3	Attack err	Abigail Cresse
22	9-13	URI	URI×3	Attack err	Abigail Cresse
23	10-13	URI	URI×3	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
24	10-14	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
25	10-15	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Sidney Sprada	set Natalie Harrington
26	10-16	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Blocked	Cara Richter	blk Abigail Cresse, Charlotte Vinson
27	11-16	DAYTON	URI×3	Serve err	Sidney Sprada
28	12-16	URI	URI×3	Ace	Rhode Island	aced Lily Barry
29	13-16	URI	URI×3	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
30	13-17	URI	DAYTON	Blocked	Cara Richter	blk Abigail Cresse
31	14-17		URI	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
32	15-17	URI	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
33	15-18	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
34	16-18	DAYTON	URI	Kill	McKenna Melton	set Ema Stermenska
35	16-19	URI	DAYTON×4	Kill	Ava Liening	set Rylee Sloss
36	16-20	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
37	16-21	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Ace	Kamryn Hunt	aced Cara Richter
38	16-22	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Kill	Ava Liening	set Rylee Sloss
39	17-22	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Jahan Lalli
40	17-23	URI	DAYTON	Blocked	Cara Richter	blk Gabriela Machin Borges, Ava Liening
41	18-23	DAYTON	URI	Blocked	Kaleigh Meritt	blk Havyn Rolle, Grace Keaney
42	18-24	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Rylee Sloss
43	19-24	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Cara Richter	set Jahan Lalli
44	19-25	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
Set 2
1	1-0	URI	URI	Blocked	Kamryn Hunt	blk Chloe Abuto, Emily Sawyer
2	2-0	URI	URI	Blocked	Kaleigh Meritt	blk Chloe Abuto, Emily Sawyer
3	2-1	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Lily Barry
4	3-1	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Chloe Abuto	set Ema Stermenska
5	3-2	URI	DAYTON	Serve err	Rhode Island
6	4-2	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Chloe Abuto	set Ema Stermenska
7	5-2	URI	URI	Attack err	Gabriela Machin Borges
8	5-3	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
9	6-3	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
10	6-4	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
11	7-4	DAYTON	URI	Blocked	Kamryn Hunt	blk Grace Keaney, Havyn Rolle
12	7-5	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
13	7-6	DAYTON	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Sidney Sprada
14	8-6	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Abigail Cresse
15	8-7	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
16	9-7	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Rylee Sloss
17	9-8	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Rylee Sloss
18	9-9	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
19	9-10	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Kamryn Hunt	aced McKenna Melton
20	10-10	DAYTON	URI	Attack err	Gabriela Machin Borges
21	11-10	URI	URI	Kill	McKenna Melton	set Dakota Henry
22	11-11	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Rylee Sloss	set Rylee Sloss
23	12-11	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
24	13-11	URI	URI	Attack err	Corrie Anderson
25	13-12	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
26	14-12	DAYTON	URI×4	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Ema Stermenska
27	15-12	URI	URI×4	Kill	McKenna Melton	set Jahan Lalli
28	16-12	URI	URI×4	Bad set	Natalie Harrington
29	17-12	URI	URI×4	Ace	Rhode Island
30	17-13	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
31	18-13	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Jahan Lalli
32	18-14	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Natalie Harrington
33	18-15	DAYTON	DAYTON	Blocked	Cara Richter	blk Charlotte Vinson, Ava Liening
34	19-15	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Jahan Lalli
35	19-16	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
36	20-16	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Jahan Lalli	set Cara Richter
37	20-17	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Natalie Harrington
38	20-18	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Blocked	Chloe Abuto	blk Ava Liening
39	20-19	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Kamryn Hunt
40	21-19	DAYTON	URI×3	Kill	Cara Richter	set Ema Stermenska
41	22-19	URI	URI×3	Kill	Cara Richter	set Ema Stermenska
42	23-19	URI	URI×3	Blocked	Kaleigh Meritt	blk Chloe Abuto, Emily Sawyer
43	23-20	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Natalie Harrington
44	23-21	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Morgan Asleson	aced Cara Richter
45	23-22	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Natalie Harrington
46	24-22	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
47	25-22	URI	URI	Blocked	Natalie Harrington	blk Havyn Rolle
Set 3
1	0-1	DAYTON	DAYTON	Attack err	McKenna Melton
2	1-1	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Natalie Harrington
3	1-2	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
4	1-3	DAYTON	DAYTON	Attack err	Emily Sawyer
5	2-3	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Chloe Abuto	set Ema Stermenska
6	2-4	URI	DAYTON×5	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
7	2-5	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Kill	Sidney Sprada	set Natalie Harrington
8	2-6	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Ace	Abigail Cresse	aced Dakota Henry
9	2-7	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Bad set	Ema Stermenska
10	2-8	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Ace	Abigail Cresse
11	3-8	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
12	4-8	URI	URI	Blocked	Kamryn Hunt	blk Havyn Rolle, Emily Sawyer
13	4-9	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Ava Liening	set Natalie Harrington
14	5-9	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Ema Stermenska
15	5-10	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Sidney Sprada	set Rylee Sloss
16	6-10	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Jahan Lalli	set McKenna Melton
17	6-11	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
18	7-11	DAYTON	URI	Attack err	Gabriela Machin Borges
19	8-11	URI	URI	Ace	Rhode Island	aced Kaleigh Meritt
20	8-12	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
21	8-13	DAYTON	DAYTON	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
22	9-13	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Chloe Abuto	set Jahan Lalli
23	9-14	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Natalie Harrington
24	10-14	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Cara Richter	set Ema Stermenska
25	11-14	URI	URI	Ace	Rhode Island	aced Lily Barry
26	11-15	URI	DAYTON	Serve err	Rhode Island
27	11-16	DAYTON	DAYTON	Kill	Charlotte Vinson	set Natalie Harrington
28	12-16	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Abigail Cresse
29	12-17	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Havyn Rolle
30	12-18	DAYTON	DAYTON	Kill	Ava Liening	set Rylee Sloss
31	13-18	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Rylee Sloss
32	13-19	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Lily Barry
33	14-19	DAYTON	URI	Kill	McKenna Melton	set Jahan Lalli
34	14-20	URI	DAYTON×5	Serve err	Rhode Island
35	14-21	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Blocked	Cara Richter	blk Gabriela Machin Borges, Abigail Cresse
36	14-22	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Blocked	McKenna Melton	blk Abigail Cresse
37	14-23	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Blocked	Grace Keaney	blk Kaleigh Meritt, Abigail Cresse
38	14-24	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Ace	Morgan Asleson	aced Cara Richter
39	15-24	DAYTON	URI	Serve err	Morgan Asleson
40	15-25	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Gabriela Machin Borges	set Rylee Sloss
Set 4
1	1-0	URI	URI×3	Ace	Rhode Island	aced Lily Barry
2	2-0	URI	URI×3	Attack err	Sidney Sprada
3	3-0	URI	URI×3	Kill	Cara Richter	set Dakota Henry
4	3-1	URI	DAYTON×7	Blocked	Emily Sawyer	blk Abigail Cresse, Sidney Sprada
5	3-2	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Ace	Sidney Sprada	aced McKenna Melton
6	3-3	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
7	3-4	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Blocked	Emily Sawyer	blk Abigail Cresse, Charlotte Vinson
8	3-5	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Natalie Harrington
9	3-6	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Attack err	Emily Sawyer
10	3-7	DAYTON	DAYTON×7	Ace	Sidney Sprada
11	4-7	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Emily Sawyer	set Ema Stermenska
12	4-8	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Lily Barry
13	4-9	DAYTON	DAYTON	Attack err	Emily Sawyer
14	5-9	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Cara Richter	set Dakota Henry
15	6-9	URI	URI	Blocked	Sidney Sprada	blk Havyn Rolle, Emily Sawyer
16	6-10	URI	DAYTON×5	Kill	Kamryn Hunt	set Natalie Harrington
17	6-11	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Kill	Gabriela Machin Borges	set Morgan Asleson
18	6-12	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Blocked	McKenna Melton	blk Ava Liening, Gabriela Machin Borges
19	6-13	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Attack err	Cara Richter
20	6-14	DAYTON	DAYTON×5	Ace	Rylee Sloss
21	7-14	DAYTON	URI	Blocked	Kamryn Hunt	blk Emily Sawyer
22	7-15	URI	DAYTON×3	Kill	Ava Liening	set Rylee Sloss
23	7-16	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Kill	Gabriela Machin Borges	set Rylee Sloss
24	7-17	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Blocked	Havyn Rolle	blk Ava Liening
25	8-17	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Grace Keaney	set Jahan Lalli
26	8-18	URI	DAYTON	Kill	Kaleigh Meritt	set Rylee Sloss
27	9-18	DAYTON	URI	Kill	Havyn Rolle	set Jahan Lalli
28	9-19	URI	DAYTON×4	Kill	Abigail Cresse	set Rylee Sloss
29	9-20	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Blocked	Grace Keaney	blk Kaleigh Meritt, Abigail Cresse
30	9-21	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Ace	Natalie Harrington	aced Grace Keaney
31	9-22	DAYTON	DAYTON×4	Ace	Natalie Harrington	aced McKenna Melton
32	10-22	DAYTON	URI	Blocked	Charlotte Vinson	blk Cara Richter, Chloe Abuto
33	10-23	URI	DAYTON×3	Serve err	Rhode Island
34	10-24	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Sidney Sprada	aced Reagan Nisbet
35	10-25	DAYTON	DAYTON×3	Ace	Sidney Sprada

Score shown after each rally, Rhode Island first.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

Dayton def. Rhode Island 3–1

A 7–0 run in the fourth set broke it open for Dayton.