February 5, 2011

D'Youville Rallies to Earn Five-Set Decision over Bard

Buffalo, NY (2/5/11)-The D'Youville College men's volleyball team learned today that every match in the new United Volleyball Conference is going to be a battle. Twice the Spartans rallied from a set down, and eventually outlasted a very game Bard College squad in five sets.

Set scores were (D'Youville score first) 23-25, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18, 15-12.

Jeremy Sajdak (Rochester, NY/Churchville-Chili) led D'Youville with 19 kills, followed by nine from Chris Krueger (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg). Brett Peters blocked a match-high ten balls and Danny Gittens (Rochester, NY/Churchville-Chili) collected a match-high 11 digs for D'Youville (4-5, 1-0 UVC).

Bard (4-5, 1-3) was led by Nick Chan (Victor, NY/Victor) with a match-high 23 kills and setter Henry Kasiske (Los Angeles, CA/Windward School) dished a match-high 46 assists.

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