The Misericordia University men's volleyball team split a tri-match at Elizabethtown with Kean, Saturday.
After a 3-0 (25-19, 27-25, 25-13) loss to seventh-ranked Kean, MU rallied to sweep E-Town, 3-0.
Brian Ross led the Cougars with seven kills in the opener and
Dylan Sellitti had 12 assists.
Against the Blue Jays,
Ryan Miller and
Jason Campbell both had nine kills while Sellitti had 22 assists.
Billy Murphy added six kills, two blocks and two aces.
MU took a 4-1 lead in the opener on three Kean errors and a kill by
Caleb Bauder.
Kean took a 9-6 lead, but MU pulled even, 10-10, thanks to aces by Campbell and Sellitti.
With MU down 16-15, Kean used a 5-1 run to stretch its lead to 21-16 and then scored three of the final four points of the set.
The second set was close throughout with neither team leading by more than three points.
Ross had two kills and Miller added an ace as part of four straight points to give MU an 18-17 edge.
Kean responded with three straight points, but the Cougars rallied with three of their own to go back in front, 21-20.
A kill by Lavin and a Kean error gave MU its final lead, 24-23.
After two points by Kean, Miller kept the Cougars alive with a kill, but Kean score two straight to win the set, 27-25.
Kean closed the third set with an 8-0 run to clinch a 25-13 win.
In the opener against E-Town, Ross had two kills as part of a 5-2 run to give MU a 12-5 lead.
Lavin added two aces as part of 5-0 run to increase the lead to 19-8 and Sellitti eventually capped a 25-15 win with a kill.
E-Town broke a 10-10 in the second set and built a 23-20 lead.
Down 24-21, the Cougars combined kills from Murphy and Campbell with a Blue Jays' error to tie the match, 24-24.
After more E-Town errors, Campbell's kill clinched the 26-24 win.
In the finale, the Cougars combined a kill by
Jordan Spidle with four Elizabethtown errors to take a 17-9 lead.
E-Town pulled within 20-19, but the Cougars closed with five straight points, including two more kills from Campbell and an ace by Murphy.
MU beat the Blue Jays for the second time in a week to improve to 7-4. The Cougars will travel to St. Joseph's (Long Island), Wednesday.
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