The Lakeland University men's volleyball team opens Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference play against one of its newest rivals when it hosts Aurora University Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.
The Muskies will play for just the second time in 16 days when they face the Spartans for the third time ever. The two teams met for the first time last season in the first year of the Aurora program, and the Spartans won a pair of exciting five-set matches.
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Lakeland (3-2 overall) last played this past Saturday when it challenged nationally ranked Carthage before falling 25-22, 25-11, 23-25, 25-19 in Kenosha.
Desmond Williams (
Sr.-Riverside, Calif.) finished with 13 kills plus four blocks and
J.T. Levitt (
Sr.-Schaumburg, Ill.) led the team with nine digs, and he set the school's new varsity career digs record, surpassing
Cole Aiazzi (2014-15) and his total of 640.
Aurora enters with a 0-5 record and most recently lost a pair of matches on Sunday, falling to Loras (Iowa) and Augustana (Ill.) both by 3-1 counts. Tim Breiter had 21 kills over the two matches, Justin Yost piled up 65 assists and Jack Fischer was in double figures in both matches in digs, finishing with 23 on the day.
The match against Aurora will begin a busy two days at home for Lakeland. The Muskies also will host Concordia Chicago and Loras for a triangular on Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. with the Muskies facing new NACC foe Concordia.
Live video and statistics for Friday night's match will be available at
http://www.lakelandmuskies.com/muskieslive.
For the rest of the night's match notes please click
here
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