Box Score PURCHASE, N.Y. – Junior Susy Camaj (Lagrangeville, N.Y./Millbrook) led the way with 16 kills and Manhattanville registered a dominating .508 team hitting percentage as the Valiants needed just 44 minutes to pick up a 3-0 (25-2, 25-6, 25-9) win over SUNY Maritime in the 2012 season finale on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy Gymnasium.
 
The Valiants were nearly perfect on the attack against the Privateers, recording 33 kills and only two errors on 61 attempts. Camaj was easily the team's leader offensively, recording 16 kills on 21 attacks before one late error ruined the errorless run and lowered her hitting percentage to .682.
 
Sophomore Mirusha Mujaj (Bronx, N.Y./Yorktown) and freshman Patricia Alfonso (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico/Colegio Puertoriqueno de Ninas) were both errorless on the day as well, as Mujaj put down six kills and Alfonso added five kills, two aces and six digs. Freshman Jillian Chittenden (Rye, N.Y./Rye) added five kills of her own. Sophomore Veronica Ferreiras (Rockville Centre, N.Y./Malverne) did much of the setting on all those kills, recording 19 assists.
 
Manhattanville also recorded 17 service aces as a team, led by five from sophomore Alyssa Casino (Rye Brook, N.Y./Maria Regina) and a career-high four from junior Jennifer Gudiel (Yonkers, N.Y./Riverside). Casino tied for the match high in digs as well with nine.
 
The Valiants were thoroughly dominant in the first set, picking up 13 kills without an error and allowing only two Privateer points on a Valiant service error and a ball handling error. After jumping out to a 10-2 lead, a service error gave the ball back to the home team and they rattled off 14 straight points on the serve of sophomore Janelle Lawrence (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy), nine of which came on Camaj kills.
 
The final two sets followed a similar script, with the home team recording 10 kills with one error in each frame.
 
Camaj finished the year with 285 kills, setting a new single-season record for Manhattanville that had stood since 2001. With her five kills, Alfonso moved into a tie for 10th place on the school's single-season kills list, matching the 224 of Damaris Morales '12 in 2010. Casino and Alfonso also finished second on the single-season digs and service aces lists, respectively, as Casino registered an even 500 digs and Alfonso came one ace short of tying Victoria Long '88 (79 in 1987).
 
Manhattanville finishes its 2012 season with a 10-22 (1-6 Freedom) record, but is set to return all 10 of its letterwinners next year as the Valiants look to continue their improvement in 2013.