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Southern Virginia Men’s Volleyball NCAA Tournament First Round Preview
HOBOKEN, NJ — The Southern Virginia College males’s volleyball crew is ready to face off in opposition to St. Joseph’s Faculty of Lengthy Island within the first spherical of the 2022 NCAA Males’s Volleyball Match Friday evening.
Each groups meet for the primary time in program historical past, with each groups getting into the nationwide match for the third time in every of the crew’s historical past.
The Golden Eagles come into the match as an unranked crew, incomes a bid to the match following a Skyline Convention title the place St. Joseph’s took on second seeded New Jersey Metropolis within the convention championship, with the Golden Eagles coming away with a five-set thriller 3-2.
St. Joseph’s at present sits with a 25-3 general report, and is led by Paul Curaro, who leads the crew with 323 kills on the season, together with 75 service aces and 132 digs.
Flanking Curaro, Mark Jensen, who led the crew within the convention championship with 22 kills, may even be regarded to to steer the offense heading into Friday’s match in opposition to the Knights.
Southern Virginia comes into the match with a No. 6 nationwide rating, incomes an at-large bid into the match following a CVC Championship loss to Rutgers-Newark, ending the common season with a 19-4 general report.
The Knights are led by three-time All-American Nahuel Recabarren, who at present sits sixth nationally in kills per set with 4.28 whereas senior Kaipo Tagaloa will quarterback the offense, rating 19th within the nation in assists per set with 9.2.
The match begins on Friday, April 15, at Stevens Institute of Expertise in Hoboken, New Jersey. Recreation time is slated for 4 pm.
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