CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Despite keeping the margin to less than four in all three sets, the Queens University of Charlotte men's volleyball team fell in the series finale to No. 14 Lewis by a 3-0 decision (23-25, 24-26, 21-25) inside the Levine Center on Saturday, March 23.

MATCH NOTABLES

• Queens outhit the Flyers .301 to .283, and tabbed 44 kills against their total 42 kills in the match. Their percentage was their second time scoring over .300 in the month of March (the Royals hit .303 over Tusculum on March 16).
• Queens also outhit Lewis (in total amount of kills) in two of three sets (second and third).
• Queens secured 33 digs in the match while Lewis dug up 31 on the day.
• Queens suffered 10 service errors on the day, with some in match-changing situations. This was one of the only categories that Lewis outscored them on — the Flyers only suffered four in the match.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Shampine once again led the kill effort for Queens with 15, marking his second match in a row with 15 kills. Stirling Sims led the block with five, as well as snagging a team-leading .667 hitting percentage off of six kills, nine attempts, and zero errors. Albert Warzocha added a team-leading eight digs.

Max Roquet led the Flyers with 10 kills. Tyler Morgan added 30 assists to his stat line, while Wesley Yusk put up six blocks.

REMARKS FROM HEAD COACH JEREMY PRICE
"If you look at the stat sheet, we outhit and outdug them, but they were the better serving team," Price said after the match. "I think that was the difference in teh match. We need to do a better job of getting more service pressure. If we are going to miss 10 serves, we need to pick up six or seven service aces. I think we passed pretty well, the guys who came off the bench contributed to the match and played well. I think our middles shined today, they scored points for us and I really liked what they did today."

UP NEXT
Up next, the Royals head back on the road to face Loyola University Chicago on Thursday, March 28 at 8 PM ET. They will finish the series with the Ramblers on Saturday, March 30 at 3 PM ET.

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