Hockey has playoff beards. Baseball has too many superstitions to list.

Nansemond-Suffolk’s volleyball team looks like it’ll keep its new bright pink jerseys for the homestretch of this season.

Not that the Lady Saints (18-6, 5-2) were struggling before getting a temporary school color, but starting with a five-set win over defending conference and state champion Cape Henry in a “Dig Pink” charity match last week at NSA, the Lady Saints have rolled off three straight Tidewater Conference victories.

NSA celebrated its Senior Night with an easy victory over Norfolk Collegiate, 25-23, 25-19, 25-5, Thursday night.

Five Lady Saints, half the varsity team, were honored prior to the match: Tori Dail, Kela Bogaard, Morgan Daughtry, Sarah Leggett and Marina Schaubach.

After the Lady Oaks put the hosts in big danger of dropping the opening set, NSA remained in control the rest of the way.

After the sides traded the lead in the opening points, NSA setter Quinby Hines found her rhythm, and so did the Lady Saint hitting.

Hines set up Kaylor Nash for back-to-back kills for a 13-10 NSA lead. Breanna Barbeau’s kill made it 18-14. Bogaard nailed a kill on the next point. NSA made it 20-14 with a Hines dig, Lizzy Fowler making a quick set in her place and Bogaard again with the kill.

The Lady Oaks put the Lady Saints in trouble with a 9-0 run. Suddenly two points from falling behind in the match, NSA got a much-needed point with Nash swinging for a kill from the back row.

Hines set for Nash to make it 23-23. Barbeau spiked for a kill down the sideline, barely inside the sideline, to put NSA up a point. An Oak foul gave NSA the last point as Claire Shields served out the closing 5-0 run.

The first set was the last scare of the evening for the Lady Saints.

Fowler and Schaubach added good hitting to NSA’s net play, helping the Lady Saints stretch out a 14-12 lead to a larger cushion in the second set. Norfolk Collegiate made NSA earn all of its points, but the Lady Saints did so, getting 19 of their 25 points in the second set via kills or blocks.

NSA won nine straight points on Shields’ service to build an 11-2 lead in the third set.

Nash did some of everything, totaling 21 digs, 21 kills, two blocks, two assists and two aces. Hines set for 37 assists.

Daughtry and Leggett had 18 and 14 digs, respectively. Bogaard and Barbeau had 10 and seven kills, respectively.

The Lady Saints have two tests away from home left in their regular season, Tuesday evening at Hampton Roads and Thursday at Norfolk Christian.