THE BASICS:
 
- Score: No. 20 Marymount - 3, MIT - 0 (25-20, 25-17, 25-22)

- Records: MIT (0-3), No. 20 Marymount (4-0)
 
- Location: Arlington, Va. (Converse Family Fieldhouse)
 
- The Lead: The MIT men's volleyball team took on its third-straight top-20 opponent and dropped a 3-0 road contest to No. 20 Marymount on Friday afternoon.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

- Set 1: Junior Grant Oh (Irvine, Calif.) tied the set at seven with a kill before the Saints went on a 4-0 run to take an 11-7 lead. The Engineers hung around, and two kills from graduate student Nick Gustafson (San Diego, Calif.) and an ace from Oh cut the Marymount lead to 19-18. That's as close as the Engineers got in the set as the host took set one by a 25-20 score.
 
- Set 2: Marymount raced out to a quick 7-1 but a 3-0 MIT run that featured a service and attack error along with a Gustafson ace got MIT to within four. The Saints continued to hold onto the lead, and after a Gustafson kill made it 23-17, Marymount scored the next two points to win the set 25-17.
 
- Set 3: The Engineers took an early 4-2 lead before a 3-0 Marymount run gave the Saints the lead. A 3-0 run by MIT that featured kills from sophomore Ben Volokh (Studio City, Calif.), Oh and Gustafson put the Engineers back on top 10-9, but the Saints responded yet again, and the teams played a back-and-forth affair throughout the set. Back-to-back errors from the Saints gave the Engineers an 18-15 advantage. Marymount used a 3-0 run to regain the lead at 21-21 and used a 4-0 run to end the set with a 25-22 victory.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Gustafson led MIT with nine kills and added an ace and five digs. Oh finished with six kills and a team-high nine digs.
 
- First year Ryan Espinoza (Los Angeles, Calif.) added five kills and seven digs. Senior Max Turner (Chandler, Ariz.) led the Engineers with 22 assists.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back on the court tomorrow, Saturday January 27th for a 10 a.m. contest at Stevenson.   
 
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