LC Men’s Volleyball Goes 3-1 at Home Dual

[January 31, 2018] 

The Lincoln College Men’s Volleyball team played their first home matches of the season on Saturday as the Lynx hosted the St. Ambrose JV squad (NAIA) and the Bradley University Club team (MWPVC) for a crossover set of best three-of-five matches.

In the first round of play, both Lincoln teams won their matches in three sets. The Lincoln A team downed Bradley 25-13, 25-22, 25-12 and Lincoln B defeated SAU 25-13, 25-15, 25-20. Kill leaders for the LC A team included junior outside hitter Kyle Murphy (9 kills), junior outside hitter Corey Poindexter (7 kills) and right side hitter Charles Carter (7 kills). The LC B group was paced by sophomore middle hitter Will Moore (4 kills, 3 blocks) and freshman outside hitters Jonathan Vargas (10 kills) and Jack Lindner (7 kills).

In the second set of matches, the LC B team was able to defeat Bradley 25-19, 25-20, 25-18. Freshman middle hitter Ramon Matos had a big match for LC with 6 kills and 3 blocks. Setter Luey Marquez contributed 21 set assists and 7 kills as well. Libero Joudiel Poveymirow had 16 digs and 8 points served.

The Lincoln A team and St. Ambrose would have the longest match of the day on their court as the teams battled their way through four close sets. St. Ambrose took set one 25-22, but Lincoln bounced back to take sets two and three by scores of 26-24 and 25-21. The Lynx could not close out the match in set four though as St. Ambrose held on to win it 25-23 and force a deciding set to 15. In that set, SAU jumped out to a 5-1 advantage and never looked back to win the set 15-8.

In the match, Lincoln College middle hitters Michael Wesley (North Chicago) and Deantrius Coleman (North Chicago) were nearly unstoppable. Wesley finished with 10 kills and 6 blocks while Coleman put down 9 kills and had 5 blocks. Setter Greg Scott (North Chicago) added 4 kills and 23 set assists.

Lincoln Coach Mark Tippett was encouraged by the results. “We saw some great play from both of our teams at this event. It is unfortunate that the A group let the St. Ambrose match get away from them, but it will hopefully be a valuable learning experience for them. We can’t let our focus slip away or get too worked up over a call we disagree with. Those moves never work out to our advantage.”

Lincoln is off until Friday when they will host Campbellsville University for a 6:00 PM match.

[Mark Tippett
Lincoln College
Sports Information]