BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The Pratt Institute men's volleyball team dropped both ends of their home tri-match falling in four sets to the University of Mount Saint Vincent, (25-19, 30-28, 19-25, 25-19), and in three sets to King's College, (25-16, 25-9, 25-16), on Sunday afternoon at the Activities Resource Center.
In the day's opening match, Joji Kawamura paced the Cannoneers attack with 10 kills at a .269 clip also bringing up 11 digs for a double-double. Brooks Reid also turned in a double-double with 20 assists, 12 digs, three kills, three aces and a block. Max Wang chipped in six kills with an ace and 11 digs and K Johnson added four kills.
Mount Saint Vincent (1-1) led from start to finish in the opening set before the Cannoneers battled back in the second set. The Dolphins crept out to a five-point lead on two different occasions and led a 20-15 but Pratt used an 8-2 run to take the lead and held four set points, but couldn't level the match as UMSV took a two-set lead with a 30-28 triumph.
After dropping a tight second set, Pratt got on the board in the third using a 6-2 spurt to build a 19-14 lead and remained firmly in control to force a fourth set. In the fourth, the gold-and-black remained close and tried to extend the match to five, but UMSV pulled away at the 16-15 mark closing out the match on a 9-3 run.
Kevin Erhand led Mount Saint Vincent with 20 kills on .368 hitting with 15 digs. James Rose added 11 kills and eight digs.
In the final match of the day against King's, Kawamura and Wang put down nine kills with one ace apiece. Jude Fox led the defense with nine digs and Reid handed out 21 aces and stuffed two blocks
King's hit .347 in the match with 36 kills and eight blocks to go undefeated on the day, improving to 11-1 on the season. Logan Dougherty hit a blistering .857 landing a match-best 13 kills against just one error.
Pratt (2-6) returns to the court next Saturday, February 24 traveling to SUNY Old Westbury for a tri-match with Brooklyn College starting at 10 a.m.
