Sacred Heart
1-4
Lewis
8-1
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart | 18 | 17 | 13 | 0 |
| Lewis | 25 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
Pioneers Downed by No. 3 Lewis
1/31/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Volleyball
ROMEOVILLE, ILL. (January 31, 2015)—Enzo Mackenzie (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) led the Pioneers with nine kills as the Sacred Heart men's volleyball team fell to No. 3 Lewis in three straight sets Saturday night. The SHU offense struggled against the Flyers only hitting .029 combined as they fall to 1-4 on the season, while Lewis improves to 8-1.
Lewis took the first point of the match on a SHU service error and never looked back. After falling behind 6-2 early in the first set, the Pioneers were never able to snag the lead from the Flyers throughout the remainder of the set. They did manage to minimize the gap to just one point, 10-9, thanks to back-to-back kills from Trent Thompson (Kailua, Hawaii) and Austin Arcala (Long Beach, Calif.), but Lewis answered with three straight points to again widen the gap. Finishing the set on a 5-1 run, the Flyers took a 1-0 match lead with the 25-18 win.
The teams traded points to open the second set with the score tying on three occasions before the Pioneers combined a Mackenzie kill and Flyer attack error for their first lead of the match. It didn't do much to spark the offense as a SHU service error evened the score again at seven. The score knotted three more times before Lewis' Eric Fitterer sent down a kill igniting a five-point Flyer run giving them the most significant lead of the set. Sacred Heart was never able to work its way back into the lead and dropped the second set 25-17.
Despite the Pioneers earning the first point of set three on a block from Travis Vonholt (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) and Mackenzie, the Flyers dominated the final set with strong blocking totaling 12 as a team. Behind strong serving from Jacob Schmiegelt and Patrick Lilly, who recorded three straight aces in a late six-point run, Lewis clinched the match with the 25-13 win.
Sacred Heart returns home Friday, Feb. 6 to open Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association action against the Harvard Crimson at 7:00 p.m.
