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Western New York's Premier Division II Team
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Aidan White swings
Geoff Schneider
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St. Thomas Aquinas STA 4-9,0-0 ECC
3
Winner Daemen Daemen 6-7,0-0 NEC
St. Thomas Aquinas STA
4-9,0-0 ECC
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Final
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Daemen Daemen
6-7,0-0 NEC
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
St. Thomas Aquinas STA 23 25 23 27 (1)
Daemen Daemen 25 18 25 29 (3)

Game Recap: Men's Volleyball | | CONTACT: Mary Margaret Johnson, Director of Athletics Communications | mmjohnso@daemen.edu

Wildcats Thwart Spartans In 3-1 Home Victory

AMHERST, N.Y. – The Daemen University men's volleyball team picked up a big 3-1 (25-23, 18-25, 25-23, 29-27) win over St. Thomas Aquinas College on Saturday afternoon to win their third straight match and improve to 6-7 on the year.

Three Wildcats finished with double-digit kills as the Cats totaled 51 on the day for a .282 hitting percentage.
IMPACT PLAYERS
  • Redshirt sophomore Patrick Mullen (Farmingdale, N.J.) led the Wildcats offensively with 14 kills and added five aces, three block assists and three digs for a team-high 20.5 points.
  • Redshirt senior Billy Wieberg (Grand Island, N.Y.) posted a double-double, totaling 12 kills and 10 digs along with two aces and one assist.
  • Redshirt sophomore Peter Leicht (Brockport, N.Y.) put together another solid outing, finishing with a season-high 11 kills with just one error on 17 attacks for a .588 hitting percentage. The outside hitter added five block assists, one solo block, three aces and one dig.
  • Junior Jariel Giraud (Orlando, Fla.) totaled 41 assists, eight digs, one ace, one block assist and two kills.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • In a first set that only saw seven total kills for the Wildcats, Daemen and STAC traded points back and forth throughout the match. Tied at 20 late in the set, the Spartans took a 22-20 lead after a Daemen attack error and Spartan ace, but from there the Cats scored five of the last six points off three STAC errors, a Wieberg kill and a Giraud ace to win the set, 25-23. Mullen led the Cats with four kills while Wieberg contributed three.
  • STAC compounded on their hot first set by taking a 13-9 lead early and maintained a good lead, taking as much as a seven-point advantage over the Wildcats in the second. The Spartans went on to take the second set, 25-18, after out-hitting the Cats 15-10 in the set.
  • Much like the first set, the Wildcats and Spartans played close throughout the third. Down 15-13, a big kill from Mullen sparked a 6-3 run Daemen to give the Cats the 19-18 lead late. The game would be tied up three separate times in the set, but Daemen won three of the final four points to take the third set 25-23.
  • Daemen and STAC traded points throughout the fourth set, with neither team pulling away with a lead larger than three points. After the Spartans took a 20-17 lead, Daemen rattled off four straight points to lead 21-20 after a pair of Leicht kills. STAC then scored three points of their own to take a 23-21 advantage, and from there it was a race to who could take a two-point lead. The two teams tied it up five times down the stretch, but Daemen ultimately survived the fourth set thriller after kills from Maverick O'Neill (East Amherst, N.Y.) and a huge slam from Aidan White (Fairport, N.Y.) to seal the deal at 29-27.
UP NEXT
The Wildcats open NEC play next weekend as they host Manhattan on Friday (Feb. 27) and Saturday (Feb. 28).
 
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