MEN'S VOLLEYBALL SWEPT BY BARD, 3-0
CHICOPEE, MA, Feb. 25, 2007 - Elms College senior middle blocker Brian Cunniff (Pittsfield, MA) knocked down a team-high 15 kills, but Bard College received a match-high 16 kills from junior outside hitter Zachary Hamaker (Walnut Creek, CA) to help lead the Raptors to a 3-0 (30-24, 30-23, 30-28) over the Blazers in Sunday's non-conference men's volleyball match at the Maguire Center.
With the loss, Elms College fell to 7-9 overall and remained winless in three all-time matches against Bard.
The Raptors, meanwhile, won for the sixth time in their last eight matches and improved to 12-8 overall.
Freshman middle hitter Henry Schenker (Verona, NJ) registered 11 kills and freshman setter Steven Alday (Phoenix, AZ) dished out 37 assists for Bard, which hit .345 as a team in the victory.
Senior outside hitter Byron Bledsoe (Lake Forest, CA) scored 10 kills and freshman setter Ivan Andujar (Carolina, Puerto Rico) recorded a match-high 40 assists for the Blazers in the loss.
Andujar needs just seven assists to break Bledsoe's single-season
team-record of 605 assists set last season.
Elms College returns to North East Collegiate Volleyball
Association (NECVA) New England Division play when it hosts MIT on
Wednesday, February 28. Match time is 7:00 p.m. at the Maguire
Center.