WESTON, Mass. – For the second straight match, an in-set rally, this time in the fourth set, allowed Regis College to extend the contest, but SUNY Potsdam jumped on top in the fifth set on its way to a 3-2 victory (25-20, 19-25, 25-21, 22-25, 15-9) Friday night in a non-conference men's collegiate volleyball match at Higgins Court.

Four Pride players finished with 10 or more kills, led by Matt Ferrara (Sandown, N.H.) with 13 kills. Kostea Andreenko (Marstons Mills, Mass.) made just one attack error as he hit .556 while finishing with a season-high 11 kills along with seven digs and nine total blocks, both career high totals. Joseph Perez (Miami, Fla.) notched a double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs, as did Brendan Lam (Rockville, Md.) with 36 assists and 12 digs. Josh Nolen (Falls Church, Va.) contributed 10 kills, and Marcello Cappuccio (Scotch Plains, N.J.) led the Regis backline with 13 defensive digs.

After taking a 2-1 match lead on a kill by Sean Murray to clinch the third set, SUNY Potsdam rattled off nine unanswered points early in the fourth set, led by four service aces from Joe Zimmerman, to open an 11-2 advantage. Down 21-16 after a kill by Zaire Rogers, Regis rallied back thanks to its defense at the net, scoring six of eight straight points on blocks, all involving Andreenko with four of them also including Robert Burch (Coxsackie, N.Y.), with Perez closing out the set with a kill.

The Pride scored the first two points of the fifth set, but the Bears quickly responded with an 8-2 scoring run, led by Jason Hendler with two blocks and a kill and Tom Shemik with two kills and a block assist. Zimmerman earned three kills to extend the Bear lead to 12-6, and the visitors would clinch the set and the match on kills by Rogers, Hendler, and Shemik.

Zimmerman finished with 17 kills, five service aces, and eight digs, while Rogers earned 15 kills and seven digs. SUNY Potsdam setter Alec Roy accumulated 47 assists and seven digs, Hendler earned nine kills and 10 total blocks, and Keven Sanchez contributed a match-high 17 digs to the winning effort.

The first set was tight until SUNY Potsdam put together a 6-1 scoring run to open an 18-13 advantage. Two kills by Andreenko and a service ace from Perez closed the Pride deficit to two at 18-16, but the Bears held the lead through the rest of the opening set, clinching it on consecutive kills by Zimmerman.

Regis took the lead early in the second set and extended it to six at 15-9 on a kill by Andreenko. Zimmerman twice brought the Bears within three, first on consecutive kills and then on a service ace, but this time the Pride maintained the lead, closing out the set with three straight points on kills by Ferrara, Perez, and Brendan Carroll (Natick, Mass.).

Regis College (6-10) heads back into GNAC play with a tri-match in Franklin, Mass., Saturday, March 12, facing Dean College at 10 a.m. and Colby-Sawyer College at 12 p.m. SUNY Potsdam (8-11), an affiliate member of the NECC in men's volleyball, opens its conference play Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. against Eastern Nazarene in Quincy, Mass.