Men's Volleyball Takes Down Ramapo, 3-0

Patchogue, NY| The St. Joseph's College (L.I.) remain undefeated in Skyline Conference play with a 3-0 sweep of Ramapo College in the Danzi Center on Tuesday evening.

The Golden Eagles improve to 21-3 on the season with an 11-0 conference mark. The Roadrunners fall to 12-11 overall, 8-3 Skyline.

The Golden Eagles held off Ramapo for four set points in the opening frame, but a couple of errors late for the Roadrunners proved costly as SJC took the set 28-26. St. Joseph's jumped to an early 5-0 lead in the second game, however, the visitors chipped away to tie the score at nine. A back-and-forth battle followed before a kill from SJC's Mark Jensen secured the 25-23 win. The Roadrunners appeared to lose some steam midway through the third set allowing the Golden Eagles to cruise to a 25-15 win.

As a team, the Golden Eagles hit .337 on the night while holding the Roadrunners to just .196. SJC also held a 40-28 edge in digs.

Jensen finished with a match-best 16 kills while hitting at a .500 clip while picking up nine digs. Paul Curaro matched Jensen with 16 kills and finished with eight digs. Mark Williams pitched in with eight kills and finished with six digs and three blocks.

Middle Pat Stevenson was a force at the net getting a hand in on a match-high five blocks with fellow middle Quinn Foglia finishing with four (3 BS, 1 BA).

Setter Clint Johnson tossed a match-best 36 assists while adding five digs and an ace while libero Jason Siriban led all players with 10 digs.

Ramapo was led by Andrew Finnegan with 12 kills with Jason van der Wilt adding 10. Setter Joshua Titus recorded 34 assists with libero Tyler Plitt finishing with eight digs.

The Golden Eagles return to the Danzi Center on Thursday, March 31 when they host the College of Mt. St. Vincent at 7:00 pm.