BOX SCORE
JAMAICA N.Y. — The York College men's volleyball team used a balanced attack—with several players contributing big numbers—to defeat the City College of New York 3-1 (25-22, 25-22, 22-25, 25-20) in a City University of New York Athletic Conference contest on Thursday night.
Bryan Williams finished with a match-high 18 kills and 12 digs, while hitting .419 to lead York.
Avinash Thomas filled up the stat sheet, as he recorded 14 kills (.320 hitting percentage), 21 assists, five digs and two aces and
Edner Geffrard had 12 kills with a .364 hitting percentage. York also had strong contributions from
Knudson Andre (7 kills) and
Leszek Stankiewicz (8 kills, 5 digs, 3 solo blocks). Setter
Jaquan DeJesus finished with 29 assists and libero
Paramivir Singh had 9 digs.
York picked up a pair of close victories in the first and second sets to take control of the match. In the third set, CCNY got off to a 9-2 lead and were able to hold off a York rally to force the fourth set. In the fourth, a 6-2 run gave the Cardinals a 14-8 advantage, which catapulted them to the victory.
CCNY was led by Brandon Reeves, who had a team-high 12 kills. Nicholas Siriban added eight kills, eight digs and three aces.
The Cardinals improves to 16-12 overall and 8-2 in CUNYAC play, while the Beavers drops to 8-16 overall and 4-7 in the CUNYAC.
York will have a quick turnaround as they head to the Kean University Invitational tomorrow. The Cardinals will have their work cut out for them because they will be facing three nationally-ranked teams. York takes on #9 Elmira College on Friday and #15 Stevenson University and #13 Kean on Saturday. Live stats are available for all games and streaming video is available for the Kean Game. You can access all those links at the
York Gameday Coverage page.
