FRESNO, Calif.-As the season has progressed so has the serve of the Fresno Pacific Sunbirds (15-8 overall, 14-4 PacWest) who swept the Hawai'i Pacific Sharks (2-21 overall, 2-15 PacWest) Monday night in the Special Events Center.

The Sunbirds delivered 11 service aces with setters Anastassiya Barakhoyeva and Catie Speas combining for seven. Three others tallied at least one.

For a team that didn't have a single game with double-digit aces before their last homestand, FPU now has three consecutive home matches with 10 or more aces.

"It shows how much work we're putting in to improve," Fresno Pacific head coach Mike MacNeill said after the match. "Our passing game has grown a lot throughout the year and that's forced our servers to become tougher through practice, as well. But the progression as a whole has been great."

Madison Girnius led the way with 10 kills while Corinne Acosta also delivered 10 kills and FPU swept HPU for the second time this year.

The Sunbirds jumped out to two separate four point leads in the first set and led a majority of the opening stanza.

HPU closed the gap to two at 17-15, but a Barakhoyeva ace, and Chloe Melis kill pushed the advantage back to four.

Speas would add a late ace before Girnius closed the set with a kill to wrap up the set 25-19.

The second set belonged to FPU after Barakhoyeva turned a 5-3 lead into a seven point lead, mixing in one of her aces.

Cambria Waites and Girnius each had three kills in the set, but it was Barakhoyeva who closed out the frame with a pair of aces to get to set point. Acosta and Melis sealed the 25-12 set with a block to put FPU up by two.

The third set was mostly even until the teams were tied at ten. Speas came through with back-to-back aces. The Sunbirds' advantage hovered around four before kills by Kaiessa Sounart, Makena Ogas and Melis pushed the advantage to 23-16.

Melis teamed up on a pair of blocks, one each with Sounart and Ogas, to close the match 25-16.

The Sunbirds hit .364 for the match, their second-best attack percentage on the season. The only game in which FPU was more efficient was in its previous home contest against Dominican.

Melis, who had a trio of set clinching blocks, finished with four block assists on the night.

Fresno Pacific continues its homestand on Wednesday when it hosts Hawai'i Hilo at 6 p.m. at the Special Events Center.