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PROVIDENCE, RI (March 14, 2014) – Vassar College traveled to Johnson & Wales University Friday evening for the JWU Invitational, dispatching of Wentworth Institute of Technology in four games before being outlasted by No. 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3-2.

The Brewers rallied after dropping the first set to Wentworth, earning the 3-1 win with scores 10-25, 25-22, 25-20 and 25-15. WIT controlled play in the first game, posting 12 kills in 16 attempts to take a 1-0 set lead. Vassar responded by evening the match at one, finishing the set on a 10-3 run to deadlock the contest at one.

Vassar (7-16) chalked up 15 kills in the third set, hitting at a .423 percentage to pull ahead 2-1 going into the fourth set. The Brewers continued its hot attacking in the fourth, closing the match out with a 14-4-25 hitting clip in the final game to clinch the match victory.

Senior Joe Pyne (Los Angeles, CA/Oakwood Secondary) had a monster outing for the Brewers, as he connected for 24 kills in just 36 attacks. Pyne's termination total was a career-high for the outside hitter, who had previously totaled 19 in a pair of matches. Junior Colin Fearn-Johnson (Honolulu, HI/Punahou) finished with nine kills and four blocks as well on the outside.

Sophomore Reno Kriz (Breingsiville, PA/Parkland) had seven finishes to go with four blocks, and Erik Halberg (Newark, DE/Salesianum) had seven assisted blocks for the Brewers, who tallied a season-best 12 rejections against Wentworth.

Colin White-Dzuro (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Royal St. George) tallied 43 assists, four digs, four blocks and two aces, while freshman Trey Cimorelli (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) tallied his fifth-straight double-digit dig tally with 12 saves. Cimorelli also moved into ninth on the single-season dig list with 252, passing Tom Pawlowski and his 241 digs from 2008.

In the nightcap, the Brewers took a 2-1 lead into game four with the Engineers but couldn't hold on in falling to MIT in five sets with tallies of 25-21, 25-27, 20-25, 25-22 and 15-5.

Pyne was back at it against MIT, as he totalled 17 kills, adding eight digs as well. White-Dzuro handed out 39 assists to go with eight saves, and Cimorelli added 10 more digs. Kriz finished with nine terminations for the Brewers, with Halberg supplying five additional kills and five total denials. Fearn-Johnson also posted a personal season-best of 12 kills for VC, which hit .233 on the contest.

The Brewers are back in action tomorrow at 10 a.m. against host Johnson & Wales, before finishing play at noon versus York College (NY) in non-conference action.