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Bees waste little time in defeating Lakers 3-0

Bees waste little time in defeating Lakers 3-0

St. Ambrose snapped a brief two-match losing streak with a 25-19, 25-19, 27-25 win over Roosevelt Tuesday night in Lee Lohman Arena.

Eleven different Bees recorded at least one kill to help the team move to 6-11 overall and 3-3 in CCAC play.

SAU had little trouble in taking the first two sets.

Leading just 12-11 in the opener, the Bees took advantage of two Laker errors to spark a run. Skyler Marushige followed with back-to-back kills before Avery Clark had consecutive aces to finish off a run of six straight points that put SAU in front 18-11. The Bees coasted from there to take a one-set lead.

After letting a quick 7-2 lead evaporate, St. Ambrose used kills from Jake Snyder and Jaylen Clark and a Ricardo Ubior ace as part of a 6-0 spurt to take a 15-10 lead. Roosevelt (2-8, 1-7 CCAC) closed to within two points on three occasions, the last time coming at 18-16. But kills from Drew Hamlin and Marushige opened up a 20-16 lead and the Bees held on from there.

The third set was close throughout. St. Ambrose found itself down 22-19 late. Another Ubior ace and a Colin Teresi kill pulled the teams even at 23-23. Dan Rice erased a Roosevelt set point with a kill to knot the set at 24-24, and two points later, Jeramie Gutierrez had a kill to tie the set at 25-25. Another Gutierrez kill gave the Bees a match point and Jake Powers closed out the win with a big serve for the team's seventh ace of the match.

Marushige led all players with eight kills. Rice had five, and Jaylen Clark, Bageanis, Teresi, Gutierrez and Myles Hudson each had three. Snyder, Hamlin and Nick Fox had two kills apiece.

Snyder paced the Bees with 16 assists while Harry Khaira picked up 10 in his one set of play.

Jaylen Clark recorded six digs, Ubior had four, and Jesse Moreno and Snyder each picked up three.

The Bees will next visit No. 11 Saint Xavier Thursday night.