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Stevens Closes Out NECVA Tournament Play With Loss To Nazareth
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2011
NECVA Tournament Central
HOBOKEN, N.J. (April
2, 2011) – Despite senior outside hitter Jonathan
Landis’ team-high 12 kills, the Stevens Institute of
Technology men’s volleyball team, ranked 13th in the latest
American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) poll, could not
overcome top-seeded Nazareth College, falling to the Golden Flyers
3-0 (25-23, 25-23, 25-19) in the 2011 NECVA Tournament
quarterfinals at Canavan Arena in Hoboken, N.J. With the loss, the
Ducks dropped to 18-12 overall on the season.
Down 3-2 early, senior middle Timothy Karl hammered home a
cross-court kill to put deadlock the set. Trailing 8-6, sophomore
Jake Modestow snuck a kill just inside the backline, before a David
Evans ace and a Modestow block helped Stevens regain a 9-8
edge.
Nazareth responded with a 6-2 run, building a 14-11 lead, forcing
a Stevens timeout. The Ducks strung together consecutive points to
trim the deficit to one, before a Golden Flyers’ block on a
would-be Landis kill made it 15-13.
Stevens would battle back to a 19-19 tie before a Brandt Grobeis
block staked the Ducks to a slim one-point advantage. Nazareth
answered by outscoring Stevens 6-4 down the stretch to take a
closely contested first set, 25-23.
Hoping to carry their momentum into the second, Nazareth raced out
to an 8-4 lead before an Evans kill momentarily slowed the surging
Golden Flyers. Undaunted, Nazareth rattled off an 8-6 run to go up
16-10.
Looking to keep pace, Stevens pulled within three at 19-16 on a
Landis kill before a Ryan Seifert spike coupled with a Modestow
block quickly pared the Golden Flyers’ margin to one, forcing
a Nazareth stoppage.
Seifert later knotted the set at 20 with a block, but a Ducks
error on the ensuing play led to consecutive Nazareth points and a
22-20 edge for the tournament’s top seed. Trailing 23-21
after a timeout, Seifert found a crease in the Golden Flyer
defense, putting away a kill to bring Stevens back within one.
Still ahead at 24-23, Nazareth senior Hans Schroeder
(Kenmore, N.Y.) powered a kill past a pair of Stevens
blockers, sealing an identical 25-23 win and a 2-0 match lead.
Down 4-2 to start the third, Seifert buried another kill pulling
the Ducks within one, but two-straight Nazareth points once again
upped the margin to three. Continuing to go on the offensive, the
Golden Flyers extended their lead to 10-5 before a SteFan PremDas
kill and an Evans ace once again made it a three-point affair.
Trying to mount a comeback, Stevens clawed to within one on a
Modestow kill that cut it to 16-15, but Nazareth recorded three of
the frame’s next four points to take push the lead back up to
three. The Golden Flyers later built a five-point cushion at 22-17
before eventually closing out the match with a 25-19 third set
victory.
Landis paced Stevens with 12 kills, three digs and three blocks,
while Seifert added eight kills. Karl and Evans combined for 12
kills and seven digs, while Modestow added five kills and four
blocks. Grobeis capped off his final NECVA Tournament run with a
38-assist, seven-dig, five-block effort.
Junior outside hitter Billy Gimello (Hauppauge,
N.Y.) led Nazareth with 14 kills, hitting .444, while
Schroeder added nine kills, eight digs and three blocks. Senior
middle blocker Ellis Walsh (Penfield, N.Y.)
registered a .545 attack rate, finishing with seven kills, while
sophomore setter EJ Wells-Spicer (Phelps, N.Y.)
dished out 35 assists.
Rivier 3,
Medaille 2 (25-21, 21-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-7)
Rivier held Medaille to a paltry -.030 hitting
percentage in a 25-17 first set victory, but he Mavericks regrouped
and rebounded in the second, tallying 13 kills on 24 swings in a
25-21 triumph. The Raiders responded with a hard-fought 25-22 win
in the third, but the Mavericks again broke out in the fourth
frame, this time registering a .333 hitting percentage in a 25-18
victory. With the match on the line, Rivier surrendered just two
kills on 13 swings in the final set (-.231), earning a 15-7
match-clinching triumph.
Senior outside hitter Jared Andreozzi (Barrington,
R.I.) hit .341 with 20 kills and seven digs, while
sophomore middle hitter Taylor Lindner (Cheshire,
Conn.) added 13 kills. Junior middle hitter Alex
Xenidis (Shelton, Conn.) added six kills and a match-best
10 blocks, while junior defensive specialist Chris
Convertito (Trumbull, Conn.) collected a match-high 11
digs. Sophomore setter Steve Visentin (Cheshire,
Conn.) dished out 46 assists in the win.
Three Mavericks finished with at least 10 kills, lead by sophomore
middle blocker Erin Kelly (Clifton Springs, N.Y.)
who tallied 16 spikes on a .448 hitting percentage. Junior
Nick Johnson (Buffalo, N.Y.) and freshman
Trevor Barrett (Amherst, N.Y.) finished with 13
and 10 kills, respectively, while senior libero Dan Jackson
(Hamburg, N.Y.) chipped in with a team-high 10 digs.
Senior setter Ryan Maxwell (Amherst, N.Y.) amassed
44 helpers in the loss.
Philadelphia
Biblical 3, MIT 2 (17-25, 19-25, 26-24, 25-17, 15-6)
After dropping the first two sets by scores of
25-17 and 25-19, PBU got things going in the third, hitting a
match-best .400, tallying 16 kills on 30 swings en route to a
closely contested 26-24 triumph. The Crimson Eagles kept things
rolling in the fourth frame, registering a .333 attack rate in a
25-17 victory. Continuing to ride their momentum, PBU closed out
the match with its third-straight victory, capturing the tiebreak
15-6 while hitting .700.
Senior Justin Brubaker (Telford, Pa.) led PBU
with 26 kills and eight digs, hitting .400 for the match, while
sophomore Ethan Mawhinney (Langhorne, Pa.) and
Noah Prickett (Yardley, Pa.) each added eight
kills. Junior libero Jeff Stauffer (Columbia, Pa.)
collected 10 digs in the win, while senior setter Drew
Dillon (Mount Joy, Pa.) dished out a match-best 51
assists.
Junior middle hitter David Thomas (Carlsbad,
Calif.) led the Engineers with 12 kills, while freshman
outside hitter Ken Siebert (St. Louis, Mo.) and
senior Malcolm Bean (Rochester, N.Y.) each tallied
nine kills. Sophomore middle Patrick Vatterott (St. Louis,
Mo.) chipped in with a match-high 10 blocks, while senior
setter Tim Lee (Natick, Mass.) had 33 helpers.
Baruch 3,
Emmanuel 1 (25-16, 30-28, 25-19, 25-22)
Hoping to take an early edge, Baruch came out
strong, posting a .647 hitting percentage in a 25-16 first set
victory. Emmanuel responded by tallying 15 kills on 28 swings in a
hard-fought 30-28 win in the second, but Baruch again found its
rhythm in the third, hitting .435 in a 25-19 triumph. The Bearcats
then held the Saints to a paltry .129 attack in the final frame, a
25-22 win.
Senior outside hitter Pablo Oliveira (Uberlandia,
Brazil) hit .361 with 21 kills to pace the Baruch attack,
while fellow senior Eryk Kowalski (Zabno, Poland)
and freshman middle blocker Steven Coniglio (Plainview,
N.Y.) added 15 and 10 spikes, respectively. Sophomore
Jesus Echevarria (San Juan, Puerto Rico) chipped
in with a match-high 49 assists and seven digs.
Senior Curtis Abram (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
recorded a team-high 18 kills to lead Emmanuel, while fellow senior
Thomas McCaffrey (Massapequa, N.Y.) added nine
kills and four blocks. Senior libero Jake DeLuise
(Wakefield, R.I.) picked up a match-high eight digs, while
sophomore setter Nick Updike (Manhattan Beach,
Calif.) tallied 40 helpers.
Nazareth 3, PBU 2 (25-19, 21-25,
25-22, 17-25 15-9)
Off to a fast start, Nazareth registered a .400
hitting percentage in a 25-19 first set victory, but PBU quickly
rebounded with a 25-21 set two win to deadlock the match at a frame
apiece. The Golden Flyers regained their form in the third set,
putting up a .370 attack rate in a 25-22 victory. Despite hitting
.417 in the fourth, Nazareth fell 25-17, again tying the match. The
Golden Flyers regrouped in the tiebreak, tallying a .571 hitting
percentage on 14 swings en route to a 15-9 triumph.
Gimello had 20 kills, hitting .485 to lead Nazareth, while
Schroeder and Bunch finished with 13 and 11 kills, respectively.
Walsh tallied 10 kills, hitting .500 in the win, while Wells-Spicer
dished out 57 assists.
Brubaker had 19 kills to lead PBU, while Mawhinney tallied 10
kills and four blocks. Stauffer collected 11 digs in the loss,
while Dillon handed out 42 helpers.
Baruch 3, Rivier
2 (25-21, 25-22, 21-25, 23-25, 15-12)
Baruch got off to a quick start, holding
second-seeded Rivier to a .161 hitting percentage in the first, a
25-21 win, before recording a .556 attack rate in a 25-22 set two
victory. The Raiders responded with a .409 hitting percentage in
the third, taking it 25-21, before limiting Baruch to a .074 attack
percentage in the fourth frame – a 25-23 triumph. Looking to
get back on track the Bearcats would regain their form in the
tiebreak, notching eight kills on just 16 swings, clinching the
match with a 15-12 victory.
Kowalski led Baruch with 24 kills, nine digs, six blocks, and a
.405 hitting percentage, while Oliveira finished with 20 kills and
10 digs. Echevarria added 52 assists in the win, while also
tallying nine digs.
Andreozzi finished with 23 kills to lead Rivier, while Xenidis and
Linder finished with 17 and 10 spikes, respectively. Visentin
dished out a tournament-high 61 assists in the loss.
