Trinity Christian College men's volleyball (10-7, 2-3 CCAC) extended their winning streak to four games with two victories on Friday night at the Lawrence Tech Invite. The Trolls needed five sets in game on to beat Lawrence Tech (9-9, 1-7 WHAC) in the first match of the day. In match number two, Trinity took dismantled University of Rio Grande (1-14, 0-9 RSC) in three sets.
The Trolls won the first match over Lawrence Tech after dropping the first two sets. It looked like the home team was going to run away with a win. They took set one, 25-20, and set two, 25-13. In the third set though, the Trolls jumped out to a 16-4 advantage. Sophomore Alex Costa ended the match with a career high 29 kills, and in set three, he earned a big kill to extend the lead to 21-13 and sophomore Bartlomej Maciczak tagged the last volleyball of set three to give the Trolls a 25-15 win.
In set four, with the Trolls tailing 11-10, they went on a 4-0 with freshman Arneet Garcha serving. Lawrence Tech came back and the two sides tussled back and forth. With the match tied at 23, Lawrence Tech earned a kill to set up match point. An attack error tied the score at 24, and Costa came up with back-to-back kills to force a fifth set.
In the final set, Lawrence Tech again had match point at 14-13 but a kill from sophomore Mike Hay tied things up at 14. It was Costa again flying in for two more kills, and the Trolls won the match, 16-14.
Game number two required less drama. Costa went for 12 more kills and also had seven digs while the Trolls offense had a team attack percentage of .450. Trinity won the match 25-22, 25-12 and 25-10. Maciczak added four blocks.
NOTES & NUMBERS:
- The 29 kills for Costa in the first match were a career high. The most amazing part though? He did it on an attack percentage of .451% (29-6-51). Incredible efficiency.
- Ostema went for five blocks in the first game, and then tacked on two more in the second game. He sits at 49 for the season.
- Senior Adam Becker has moved to libero and on Friday he had 12 digs. He added five more in the second match.
- Sophomore Ryan Schmidt and Nick Mioni each had 27 assists in the first match. It was a season high for Mioni.
UP NEXT: The Trolls will go on the road Wednesday night, March 2nd at Roosevelt University (0-11, 0-5 CCAC) to take on the Lakers at 7 p.m.
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