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Loretto, Pa. – The No. 12 Lewis University men's volleyball team broke a two game losing-streak when they defeated Saint Francis, 3-2 (25-18, 20-25, 21-25,25-16,15-8) on Saturday (Jan. 19) at Degol Arena.
 
The Flyers improve to 2-5 on the season while the Red Flash fall to 1-4 on the year.
 
“This was a good win to close out three straight weeks on the road,” Lewis head men's volleyball coach Dan Friend said. “Saint Francis is a tough environment to play in and they pushed us to play well.”
 
In the first set, the Flyers got out to a four-point lead at 8-4 on two kills from red-shirt senior Jay Petty (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove North) (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove North), and a kill each from Geoff Powell (Claremont, Calif./Claremont) (Claremont, Calif./Claremont), James Hofmann (Cincinnati, Ohio/Archbishop McNicholas) (Cincinnati, Ohio/Archbishop McNicholas) and Bobby Walsh (Chicago, Ill./Mount Carmel) (Chicago, Ill./Mount Carmel) as well as capitalizing on two Red Flash errors.
 
A triple block from Petty, Walsh and BJ Boldog (Palatine, Ill./Palatine) (Palatine, Ill./Palatine) put the Flyers up, 20-16. Two kills from Petty and a kill from Powell with two SFU attack errors gave Lewis the first set, 25-18.
 
The squads exchanged six tie-ups in the second set. SFU broke the 11-all  with a block from Logan Patterson and Adam Roche, which gave the Red Flash a bit of cushion to build from. SFU went on a 6-3 run before Lewis called a time out to stop the Red Flash's momentum, up 17-13. Despite six kills on nine attempts from Powell in the second set, the Flyers dropped the set to 25-20 to the Red Flash.
 
After Walsh broke the 4-all tie with a kill in the third set, the Flyers went on a 4-1 run with a kill from Petty and three Red Flash errors, up 9-5. Momentum and the lead then flipped to SFU as they went on a five point run to go up 11-9 on kills from Colin Sherwin and Adam Barba. The squads then exchanged four tie-ups before SFU was able to build a four point lead on three Lewis attack errors and a Mike Marshman kill. SFU's lead proved to be enough to keep Lewis at bay to go up 2 sets to 1, with a 25-21 victory.
 
In the fourth set, Powell broke the 7-all tie with a kill that led into a four point swing for the Flyers. Lewis got two kills from Petty and a block from Sean Nelson (East Hampton, Conn./Xavier) (East Hampton, Conn./Xavier), as well as a SFU setting error to go up 12-7. The Flyers lead expanded to eight points when Petty, Walsh and Boldog got a triple block at 21-13.
 
Lewis closed out the fourth set with kills from Eric Fitterer (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) and Petty and two Saint Francis attack errors to take the set, 25-16.
 
The Flyers opened the fifth set on a 6-0 run, getting kills from Nelson, Powell, and Fitterer, a triple block from Nelson, Powell and Fitterer, and two Red Flash attack errors. Lewis executed seven kills on 12 attempts in the set to hit .417 and win the set 15-8, and the match, 3-2.
 
Petty collected a season-high 18 kills in 37 attempts to hit .324 with nine digs while Powell added 16 kills on 39 attempts to hit .256. Boldog had 42 assists in the contest.
 
Lewis returns to Neil Carey Arena to open their 2013 home schedule against New Jersey Institute of Technology on Friday (Jan. 25) at 7 PM.