CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Queens University of Charlotte men's volleyball team won its fourth straight match on Thursday night, collecting a 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-16) win over the University of Mount Olive inside Curry Arena.
 
Queens (11-9) avenged an early-season loss to the Trojan (9-3) after committing just 10 attack errors to register a .304 hitting percentage. The Royals' defense held Mount Olive to a .087 mark, tallying seven total blocks in the match.
 
Despite falling behind early, the Royals used nine unanswered points to build a 10-3 lead in the opening set. Queens led by as many as eight points, 23-15, before closing out the frame on a kill from JP Payne. The Royals never trailed in the second set of action, cruising a 25-17 win behind a .333 hitting performance.
 
The third and final set held much of the same for Queens as the Royals never trailed and battled through five early ties in the set to build a 23-13 advantage late on a Nic Cavallaro kill. A service ace from Ryan Cymbor finished off the match with a service ace.
 
Cavallaro led all players with 11 kills and hit .333 on the outside with seven digs, while Tristan Santoyo followed with 10 kills and seven digs of his own. Josh Bragg hit .316 and tallied eight kills as Brandon Grabow dished out 35 assists in the win.
 
Queens returns on home Saturday for its final home match of the regular season as the Royals host Barton College in the Queen City at 6 p.m. Bragg, Cavallaro and fellow senior Ruben Greenstein will be honored in a pre-match ceremony as part of the team's Senior Night festivities.