St. Ambrose just didn't come up with enough plays late in the first two sets in falling to Viterbo 25-23, 25-23, 25-16 Saturday afternoon in Lee Lohman Arena.

The Bees won the first three points of the match but from there, the first set was close the entire way. Viterbo (9-10, 2-2 CCAC) went ahead 22-18 before a kill from Jon Guch and an ace from Dillon Markley pulled SAU within 22-20. The V-Hawks responded with two straight points, but the Bees erased three set points, one on a kill from Mikolaj Zielonka and another on an ace from Ethan Karban. St. Ambrose nearly tied the set by Charlie Flynn's attack was just wide to give Viterbo the opener.

The second set saw SAU take leads of 5-1 and 11-5 early. The V-Hawks battled back but back-to-back kills from Zielonka and Cael Anderson handed the Bees a 19-17 lead. But Viterbo came back with four straight points and held the advantage from there to take the two-set lead.

The final set was close early until the V-Hawks pulled away to close out the 3-0 win.

Anderson led St. Ambrose (1-18, 0-2 CCAC) with nine kills. Zielonka finished with eight and Guch and Dan Rice each put down six. Flynn added four.

Ethan Chausse (15) and Andreas Indicatti Mariani (13) combined for 28 of the team's 31 assists. Kar

Karban, who had the Bees' other three assists, also led the way with 14 digs. Chausse had seven and Mariani picked up five.

SAU will host Judson in a CCAC matchup Tuesday.