(Butler, PA) Taylor Simon had 20 digs and Mackenzie Kurtz 11 kills as the 13th-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team swept Jamestown (N.Y.) Community College on Monday night in the Field House on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township to move to 14-3.

Addison Say had 23 assists as BC3 won for the seventh time in its past eight matches with a 25-11, 25-9, 25-12 victory.

The Pioneers were ranked No. 13 among 86 National Junior College Athletic Association Division III programs in a Week 7 poll released Oct. 13.

BC3’s program has been ranked in the Top 15 in Division III in 44 of 48 polls dating to Oct. 4, 2021, including the past 25 in a row.

Simon has had at least one service ace in 16 of BC3’s 17 matches and had two against Jamestown (3-12).

With one solo block against Jamestown, Kurtz has had at least one in six consecutive matches. 

Sarah Lucas had 11 digs for BC3, as did Bayliee Payne, which represented her season high.

Madelyn Nosel leads BC3 with 216 kills, followed by Kurtz with 156. Say leads the Pioneers with 431 assists, and Simon with 311 digs and 38 service aces.

Simon, Lucas, and Payne are Butler Senior High graduates. All are defensive specialists while Payne is also an outside hitter. Say, Keystone, is a setter and opposite hitter; Nosel, Warren, an outside hitter; and Kurtz, Knoch, a middle hitter.