Box Score
MAHWAH, NJ (February 28, 2009) – Despite winning the first set 30-28, the No. 3 ranked Vassar men's volleyball team saw its ten game winning halted by No. 8 Ramapo College, 3-1 (28-30, 30-23, 30-24, 30-20) in a match of NECVA Metro Division rivals. The loss, Vassar's second within division play, drops the Brewers to 13-4, 4-2. Ramapo improves to 7-0 in conference and 18-2 overall. The Brewers travel to SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, March 4 in a pivotal Metro Division match at 7:00 pm. Ramapo hosts Stevens in a Metro match on March 4.
Junior
Phil Tully (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) led the Brewers with 17 kills. Fellow senior
John Kessenich (Chicago, IL/Richard Montgomery) added a career-high 16 kills from the attack position and contributed 23 assits. Freshman
Clifford Quinn (Hamburg, NY/Frontier Central) set a new career high with 29 assists. Shane Donohue (Freehold, NJ) led the way for Ramapo with 24 kills and Tom Kohler (East Brunswick, NJ) added 13. Jairo Sierra (Fairlawn, NJ) led all assist men with 48 in the match.
In the opening set, the Brewers capitalized on eight service errors and hit .353 to win a close set, 30-28. Kessenich and Tully combined for ten kills in this set (six by Kessenich, four by Tully) and Quinn had the offense effective with 13 assists.
In the second set, the Roadrunners hit .500 with 14 kills on 24 attempts and only two errors. Tully and Kessenich both recorded six kills in this set, but Donohue had a strong set with five kills and teammate TC Elsasser (Barnegat, NJ) chipped in four kills. Ramapo remained strong in the third set, winning 30-24 behind 16 kills on 23 attempts and a .522 hitting percentage. Sophomore Evan Fredreicksen (Menlo Park, CA/Menlo-Atherton led the Vassar cause with four kills and Tully added three. Kessenich dished out ten assists.
In the final game of the match, the Roadrunners came out on top, 30-20, thanks to a .517 hitting percentage compared to Vassar's .250. Tully recorded four of his team's 13 kills while Kessenich dished out nine assists.
