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Ryan Parker put down a career-best 14 kills to lead Daemen to their ninth win in as many matches this season
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Winner Daemen Daemen 9-0,1-0 DI Independent
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St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY 1-2,0-0 DI Independent
Winner
Daemen Daemen
9-0,1-0 DI Independent
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St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY
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Daemen Daemen 25 25 21 25 (3)
St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY 15 23 25 12 (1)

Game Recap: Men's Volleyball | | CONTACT: Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate Athletics Director for Communications & Operations

Men's Volleyball Remains Perfect With 4-Set Victory At St. Francis Brooklyn

Wildcats look to complete unbeaten season Saturday

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. – A chance at perfection.

That's what the Daemen men's volleyball team guaranteed itself today by winning a four-set match (25-15, 25-23, 21-25, 25-12) over host St. Francis Brooklyn to improve to 9-0 this season. The same two teams will meet again tomorrow in what will be Daemen's final match of the pandemic-shortened 2021 campaign. The Wildcats remain one of only two unbeaten teams across the NCAA Division I/II ranks, joining the No. 1 ranked team in the country, Hawaii (9-0). 

Friday's win marked the second against a Division I opponent in the three-year history of Daemen's program. Both have come against the SFBC Terriers. The teams last met March 7, 2020 at Daemen's Lumsden Gymnasium in a 3-0 victory for the Wildcats - the final match before both teams had the remainder of their 2020 seasons cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Terriers, who just opened their 2021 season Tuesday by splitting a pair of matches with Sacred Heart, dropped to 1-2. The SFBC program is in just its second season of existence.

Despite experiencing travel issues that caused the start of the match to be delayed by an hour, Daemen showed no signs of stiffness after a 10-hour bus ride. The Wildcats opened up a 12-4 advantage and cruised to a 10-point win in the opening set. 

The Terriers tightened things up in the second set and led 21-20 before Daemen rattled off five of the final eight points in the set.

SFBC turned the tables in the third set, turning a 18-13 deficit into their first set victory of the match. The Terriers won 12 of the final 15 points of the set to pull back into contention.

Daemen quickly extinguished any thoughts of a big SFBC comeback by jumping out to a commanding 17-9 lead in the fourth set. The Terriers got not closer than seven points the remainder of the set. 
 

IMPACT PLAYERS

  • Sophomore outside hitter Ryan Parker (Fairport, N.Y.) put down a career-high 14 kills while adding eight digs to lead the Wildcats. It marked his third match this season with at least 10 kills and he matched his career-high with a .444 hitting percentage (in matches with at least 10 attack attempts).
  • Sophomore outside hitter Zach Schneider (Lockport, N.Y.) chipped in with 11 kills and seven digs, while junior setter Michael Krueger (Canonsburg, Pa.) narrowly missed a double-double by totaling match-highs of 33 assists and nine digs.
  • Seven of the eight players that saw action for Daemen had at least three kills, including 16 combined from Jake Couzens (Hamburg, N.Y.), Henry Moffitt (Sydney, Australia) and Robert Patzer (Liverpool, N.Y.).
  • Sophomore Christian Prayer, who totaled a career-high 22 kills in SFBC's victory over Sacred Heart, paced the Terriers with 12 kills.
  • Setter Andrew Piloto recorded 28 assists and a team-high eight digs for the Terriers.


MATCH NOTES

  • Daemen's program is in its third season of existence. After posting a 6-17 overall record in their inaugural 2019 season, the Wildcats doubled their win total in 2020, finishing 12-7 overall before the final 10 matches were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • The Wildcats current 11-match winning streak surpasses the prior program record of seven consecutive wins set last season. All seven wins came during the month of February (2020). Daemen has won 18 of its last 20 matches. 
  • The Wildcats return 13 players who have been with the program for at least a year, including four juniors who came in with the program's inception.


NEXT SERVE
The Wildcats and Terriers meet again Saturday afternoon (1 p.m.) with Daemen looking to complete an unbeaten season.


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