Peyton Breissinger had 11 kills and 10 digs as No. 8 Berry moved one step closer to a Southern Athletic Association regular season volleyball championship with a 3-0 (25-20, 25-19, 25-17) victory over Millsaps Friday night in Jackson, Miss.

Now sitting at 12-1 in SAA play, the Vikings will travel to Birmingham-Southern for a 1 p.m. match which could decide the winner of the SAA regular season championship. If Berry wins, it will capture the regular season title. A loss by the Vikings would mean that BC would need help from Oglethorpe on Saturday to force a tie for the regular season championship, with tiebreakers deciding who gets the top seed and the right to host the league tournament in two weeks.

Current SAA Defensive Player of the Week Kate Whittle had 22 digs and the match-clinching ace to help the Vikings to the win. The sophomore notched her 399th dig of the season as part of the winning effort for the Vikings and upped her season average to 5.96 digs per set.

The second set would see the Majors (6-15, 2-11) put up the biggest challenge to the Vikings as Millsaps took a 15-10 lead. After a Millsaps attack error, an ace and a kill out of the back by Breissinger helped the Vikings right the ship and pull within one, 15-14. Later, with Berry still down 17-16, a five-point spurt sent the Vikings to the lead. Molly Bergin had a kill and two aces, with Olivia Mallow getting the other two points via kills to put the Vikings up 21-17. The lead would hold the rest of the way, with a block by Mallow and Emily Rapach finishing off the set, 25-18.

Rapach finished the night with 38 assists, improving her assists per set average to 10.39 for the season. Jazzy Innis had 13 digs,the most for the junior in a three-set match this season. Molly Bergin added seven kills, two aces, and two total blocks for a 10 point night.