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Sports Men's volleyball wins conference game
By Samantha Sellinger Staff writer The Mercyhurst College men’s volleyball team won its first conference game of the season last week against Quincy. The next night they lost to Quincy but overall it was a successful weekend and the Lakers’ record was raised to 5-16. “The combined results of the two matches virtually assure us that we will finish ahead of them in the standings which… made it a good series for us,” said coach Ryan Patton. The victory allowed the team to move up to sixth place in the MIVA with a 1-9 conference record. At Wednesday’s match Mercyhurst beat Quincy 3-2 with scores: 24-30, 30-26, 29-31, 30-24, and 15-9. After the Lakers had lost two of the first three games, and were struggling in the fourth, it looked like Quincy would take the win. But Mercyhurst was able to get it together halfway through the fourth game. “We became assertive and were able to come back (in game four) and then win the fifth. Juniors Dave Newman and Dave Hatten got on a hot blocking streak and then we stopped being passive and became the aggressive team,” said coach Patton. In game four, tied at 24-24, Mercyhurst won the final six points sending the match to a fifth game. In the last game the Lakers scored nine of the final 12 points to break open a 6-6 tie and win the match. Thursday’s game went just the opposite, and Mercyhurst was defeated 3-5. The Lakers won two of the first three games but eventually lost 22-30, 30-24, 22-30, 33-31, and15-11. The Lakers cruised to early wins in the first and third games but simply weren’t the better team in the last two. “We didn't cause enough passing issues for them (with our serve) and their best guy got hot and willed them into being the more aggressive team,” said Coach Patton. In game four, the teams exchanged points until the score was tied at 31-31. Two kills from Quincy’s Peter Coley won them the game. In game five Mercyhurst led briefly but Quincy scored three straight to take a 10-6 lead before the Lakers called a timeout to regroup. Junior Jeff Hartman got the next point which tightened the gap to three, but Mercyhurst as unable to get any closer before Coley’s 25th kill of the match finished the contest. While the team lost, the some individual players had played a great game. Freshman Jon Gurr had a career-high 22 kills, and the team’s setter, Hatten, ended with a career high 61 assists, crushing his previous best of 49. Newman, who ranks in the top 15 in the country in attack percentage, hit .565.
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