{"id":182199,"date":"2026-04-01T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:49:38","slug":"no-20-dons-face-off-against-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182199\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 20 &#8216;Dons Face Off Against Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WAYNE, Ind. &#8211; The Purdue Fort Wayne men&#8217;s volleyball team will take the final regular season road trip this week, traveling to Charlotte, N.C. for a pair of matches against Queens (April 2 &amp; 3).<\/p>\n<p>Game Day Information<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWho: Queens<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhen: Thursday, April 2\u00a0| 6 PM<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhere: Charlotte, N.C.| Levine Center<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWatch: <a href=\"https:\/\/queensathletics.com\/watch\/?Live=203&amp;type=Live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.statbroadcast.com\/broadcast\/?id=628111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGame Notes: <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/documents\/2026\/4\/1\/2026_Week_12.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MIVA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/documents\/2026\/4\/1\/20-21_Queens.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Fort Wayne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Game Day Information<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWho: Queens<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhen:\u00a0Friday, April 3 | 6 PM<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhere: Charlotte, N.C.| Levine Center<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.statbroadcast.com\/broadcast\/?id=628112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGame Notes: <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/documents\/2026\/4\/1\/2026_Week_12.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MIVA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/documents\/2026\/4\/1\/20-21_Queens.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Fort Wayne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know Your Foe<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nQueens is 6-17 on the season, 1-13 in MIVA play to sit last in the standings. The Royals&#8217; lone association victory came in a five-set win over No. 11 Ohio State. Queens is second in the MIVA during association play in digs per set, averaging 9.10 a frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Series History<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mastodons own a 5-2 series history lead over Queens. The &#8216;Dons and Royals split last season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/logan-muir\/9750\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9750\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Muir<\/a> hitting over 20 kills in each contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dons This Season<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNo. 20 Purdue Fort Wayne is 9-10 on the season, 4-8 in MIVA play for seventh in the standings.The Mastodons own wins over (RV) NJIT, No. 20 Charleston, No. 12 McKendree and No. 8 Loyola Chicago, while suffering nine of their 10\u00a0losses to ranked opponents. Preseason All-MIVA selection <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/logan-muir\/9750\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9750\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Muir<\/a> leads the association in points per set (4.72) and kills per set (3.82), also sitting second in service aces per set with 0.61. The &#8216;Dons rank third in MIVA play in opponent kills per set (11.41) and opponent assists per set (10.61).<\/p>\n<p>Last Time Out<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Purdue Fort Wayne men&#8217;s volleyball team fell in straight sets (25-20, 25-19, 29-27) at No. 12 McKendree on Thursday night (March 26). <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/news\/2026\/3\/26\/mens-volleyball-no-20-purdue-fort-wayne-falls-at-no-12-mckendree\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link to recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Purdue Fort Wayne men&#8217;s volleyball team fell in five sets (25-22, 20-25, 25-18, 25-27, 21-19) at No. 11 Lindenwood on Saturday afternoon (March 28).\u00a0Muir led the match with 21 kills, along with five digs and four aces. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/andrew-mayer\/9749\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9749\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mayer<\/a> dug out a career-high 14 digs. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/hunter-hopkins\/9746\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9746\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Hopkins<\/a> finished with 47 assists in the match. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/news\/2026\/3\/28\/mens-volleyball-falls-at-no-11-lindenwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link to recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blocked By Fozzy!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/kaden-fosdick\/9745\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9745\" target=\"_blank\">Kaden Fosdick<\/a> was selected as the MIVA&#8217;s Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday (Feb.10). The junior aided the Mastodons to a 2-0 weekend and into a four match win streak. Fosdick rejected a total of 12 attacks against Northern Kentucky (Feb. 6) and Daemen (Feb. 8) for an average of 2.00 blocks per set, best in the MIVA for the week. The Wisconsin native had seven blocks and a dig during Purdue Fort Wayne&#8217;s first MIVA victory over the Norse. Fosdick had another five blocks in the victory over the Wildcats. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/news\/2026\/2\/10\/mens-volleyball-kaden-fosdick-named-mivavb-defensive-player-of-the-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link to release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Preseason All-MIVA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/logan-muir\/9750\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9750\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Muir<\/a> was selected for the Preseason All-MIVA Team on December 15. Muir was named to the 2025 All-MIVA Second Team following last season. The Junior led the Mastodons in points (464.5), kills (391) and service aces (41) last year. He was second in the MIVA in kills per set (4.39), aces per set (0.41) and points per set (5.19) during conference play. Muir&#8217;s 5.09 points per set ranked fifth in the nation. The California native also was 10th in the MIVA in hitting percentage with .299. Muir recorded double-digit kills in 19 of the &#8216;Dons&#8217; 26 matches. He hit a career-high 23 kills in three sets at McKendree, the third most in the program&#8217;s rally scoring era. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomastodons.com\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/mens-volleyball-logan-muir-selected-to-preseason-all-miva-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Link to release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming Up<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe &#8216;Dons finish out regular season MIVA play by hosting No. 9 Loyola Chicago (April 9) and No. 16 Lewis (April 11) at the Gates Sports Center.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>~ Feel the Rumble ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WAYNE, Ind. &#8211; The Purdue Fort Wayne men&#8217;s volleyball team will take the final regular season road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-182199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182199","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=182199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}