(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) – The Thomas More University men's volleyball team lost on the road to Maryville University Friday night, 3-1 (27-29, 25-17, 25-22, 25-19). The Saints drop to 12-11 overall this season, with their final regular season match tomorrow afternoon.
- Both teams traded points throughout set one.
- The biggest lead during the set was a 5-2 Maryville advantage early on.
- The Saints would find themselves at a set point, down 27-26, but a Dominic Rossi (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shaler) kill kept Thomas More alive.
- Maryville made a pair of mistakes to give the Saints a 1-0 match lead.
- Set two was tied 13-13.
- A 7-4 Maryville run gave them a 20-17 lead.
- Maryville would continue their run and win the next five points to tie the match at 1-1.
- Thomas More fell behind 16-12 in the third set.
- Mason Collver (Zionsville, Ind./Zionsville), Jacob Wehrman (Milford, Ohio/Milford), and Will Strasser (Cleves, Ohio/Taylor) all had kills during a 6-1 Saints rally to give them the 18-17 lead.
- Maryville would use a 3-0 flurry to take a 20-18 lead, which they would not relinquish, and take a 2-1 match lead.
- The final set was taken over by Maryville when it was 12-11.
- They used a 6-0 run to extend their lead to 18-11.
- Thomas More wouldn't go down easily.
- A Conner Young (Cincinnati, Ohio/Princeton) kill and two Young aces fueled a 7-2 rally to cut the lead to 20-18.
- It was all Maryville from there though as they took the set 25-19 and the match 3-1.
- Rossi had a season-high 17 kills to lead the Saints.
- He ties teammate Ben Albers (Delhi, Ohio/Elder) for the second most kills in a match in program history.
- Young dished out a season-high 30 assists, while also having a team-high three aces.
- Wehrman and Caleb Lipscomb (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills/St. Francis Brooklyn College) both had five block assists.
- Jonathan Litzler (Edgewood, Ky./St. Henry) had his second straight match with double-digit digs, with 11.
- Thomas More recorded their second-most block assists of the season with 19.
As mentioned, the Saints end their regular season tomorrow afternoon in Missouri. They travel to Rolla to take on the Miners of Missouri S&T for the first time in program history at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.
