THE BASICS:

- Score: Elmira – 3, MIT – 2 (20-25, 25-21, 25-16, 28-26, 15-10)

- Records: MIT (9-5, 1-3 UVC), Elmira (11-7, 1-2 UVC)

- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Rockwell Cage)

- The Lead: The MIT men's volleyball team dropped a tough five-set match to visiting Elmira College on Friday night at Rockwell Cage.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

- Set 1: The Eagles doubled-up the Engineers early in the set, but a 9-2 MIT run, highlighted by three kills from junior Brett Allen (San Jose, Calif.) put the Engineers in the lead, and they would not look back as Allen sealed the 25-20 win with a kill.
 
- Set 2: Elmira used a 6-0 run to take an 8-5 lead but MIT made it a one-point game at 18-17 before a 4-1 Elmira run made it 22-18. Back-to-back kills from first-year Grant Oh (Irvine, Calif.) made it 22-20, but the Eagles held on for the 25-21 win.
 
- Set 3: Allen and senior Bradley Albright (Burnt Hills, N.Y.) combined for four kills to put MIT up 12-9, and the Engineers went on to take the third set 25-16 off an Albright kill.
 
-  Set 4: A 5-1 MIT run pulled MIT to within one as an Allen kill made the score 14-13. The Eagles held onto the lead and forced an MIT timeout with the score 20-18. With Elmira holding set point, kills from junior Dylan Ryan (Oviedo, Fla.) and Oh tied the match at 24. The teams then went back-and-forth before the Eagles claimed the 28-26 victory to force a decisive fifth set.  
 
- Set 5: Elmira scored the first three points of the set. but MIT responded with three-straight points of its own to tie the set. The Eagles regained the lead, but once again the Engineers tie it up off a kill from Ryan. The visitors used a 5-0 run to go up 10-5 and took the fifth and final set by a score of 15-10.


INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

-  Allen finished the match with a career-high 18 kills while also adding six digs.
 
- Ryan added 15 kills and Albright contributed nine kills and six digs.
 
- First-year Riley Oh (Irvine, Calif.) finished the night with 36 assists and 12 digs.

UP NEXT:
- MIT heads out on the road for a 7 p.m. match on Friday, March 11 against Lasell.


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