THE BASICS:

- Score: St. John Fisher - 3, MIT - 1 (25-16, 25-23, 24-26, 25-21)

- Records: MIT (11-7, 1-4 UVC), St. John Fisher (18-7, 4-2 UVC)

- Location: Pittsford, N.Y. (Manning & Napier Varsity Gym)

- The Lead: The MIT men's volleyball team dropped a tough four-set match to St. John Fisher on the road on Friday night.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

- Set 1: SJF used a 5-0 run to take a 15-6 lead before a kill from junior Jack Yurkanin (New Lenox, Ill.) ended the run. With the score 16-7, the Engineers scored four of the next five points to make it a 17-11 set, but the Cardinals held on for the 25-16 win.
 
- Set 2: The Engineers used a 4-0 run to take a 9-7 lead before SJF responded with a 4-0 run of its own to go up 11-9. MIT then scored the next four to regain the lead at 13-11. The teams went back-and-forth until with the set tied at 21, the Cardinals scored four of the next six to win the set 25-23.
 
- Set 3: Trailing 12-11, the Engineers scored six of the next 10 points to take a 17-15 lead. SJF used a 4-0 run late in the set to tie the set at 24 but MIT scored the next two points as a Yurkanin kill gave MIT the 26-24 win.
 
- Set 4: The Cardinals used a 6-1 run to go up 16-11 but the Engineers slowly chipped away and back-to-back kills from junior Dylan Ryan (Oviedo, Fla.) and Yurkanin got MIT to within two at 22-20, but the Cardinals held on to win the set 25-21.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

-  Yurkanin led MIT with 14 kills while also adding eight digs. Senior Tommy Ogeka (Manorville, N.Y.) also tallied eight digs in the match.
 
- First-year Riley Oh (Irvine, Calif.) finished with 12 digs and 12 assists in the four-set match, and first-year Grant Oh (Irvine, Calif.) finished with eight kills and five digs.
 
- Ryan led the team with five blocks, and junior Troy Oliveira (San Diego, Calif.) and R. Oh each finished with three.
 
- Sophomore Max Turner (Chandler, Ariz.) finished with a team-leading 15 assists.

UP NEXT:
- MIT continues its road trip with another vital UVC match with Nazareth on Saturday, March 26 at 1:00 p.m.

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