{"id":120982,"date":"2026-02-03T05:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:31:40","slug":"mens-volleyball-drops-to-7-loyola-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120982\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Volleyball Drops to #7 Loyola Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CHICAGO, IL \u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers&#8217; Men&#8217;s Volleyball program (2-4, 0-0 NEC) fell to the Ramblers of #7 Loyola Chicago (4-3, 0-0 MIVA) in straight sets (15-25, 19-25, 16-25) inside Joseph J. Gentile Arena on Friday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe program&#8217;s first trip to the Midwest started with the Jaspers logging the first point after taking advantage of the Ramblers attempt error nice and early.&#13;<br \/>\n\tAfter surrendering the next two points off the Jaspers&#8217; two errors, the Green and White were able to post the next three consecutive points.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBoth teams went back and forth before the Jaspers, again, put together five of the next six points to take its largest lead, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/wojtek-nowak\/11907\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11907\" target=\"_blank\">Wojtek Nowak<\/a> with the go-ahead kill. Followed by the insurance tally for an 11-9 lead.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFast forward to the second set where the Green and White trailed by one set, the Jaspers opened the stanza the same way they opened the match, with a point, but earning a kill was <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/kasen-owens\/11906\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11906\" target=\"_blank\">Kasen Owens<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n\tTrailing by as much as six, the Jaspers posted the next four points to shrink its deficit to just two, with <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/drew-blonski\/11904\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11904\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Blonski<\/a> getting on the board with his first kill of the night.&#13;<br \/>\n\tManhattan and Loyola Chicago went back and forth and traded points, before three straight points eventually propelled the Ramblers to secure the second set.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn the third set, the Jaspers put together back-to-back points from <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/sam-morreale\/11909\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11909\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Morreale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/kai-patchell\/11910\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11910\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Patchell&#8217;s<\/a> lone service ace of the day.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>STATS AND NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tJunior outside hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/wojtek-nowak\/11907\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11907\" target=\"_blank\">Wojtek Nowak<\/a> paced the Jaspers with 10 kills on 24 attempts, while logging one block solo and five digs for 11 total points.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSophomore outside hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/kasen-owens\/11906\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11906\" target=\"_blank\">Kasen Owens<\/a> added eight kills to his resume on 26 attempts, with two digs and one block assist for 8.5 points.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman setter <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/drew-blonski\/11904\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11904\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Blonski<\/a> logged two kills on as many attempts, while adding 27 set assists and two digs.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman opposite hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/kai-patchell\/11910\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11910\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Patchell<\/a> registered four kills on six attempts, with the teams&#8217; lone service ace posted for a combined five points.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>\nThe Jaspers continue its Midwest journey tomorrow, Saturday, January 31, when the Green and White visit the Flyers of #9 Lewis University inside Neil Carey Arena in Romeoville. The contest can be viewed on YouTube for free.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow Manhattan Men&#8217;s Volleyball on X and Instagram (@ManhattanMVBall).<br \/>\n                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; CHICAGO, IL \u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers&#8217; Men&#8217;s Volleyball program (2-4, 0-0 NEC) fell to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-120982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}