St. Ambrose won the first three points of the fifth set and held on for a 29-27, 25-23, 17-25, 16-25, 15-12 win at Judson Thursday night.

After letting a two-set lead slip away, the Bees regrouped in the fifth. Three Eagle errors handed the Bees that 3-0 lead in the final set and they never looked back.

Two kills from Jon Guch followed a Nick Fox kill to open a 7-2 lead. The margin ballooned to 10-4 following a Cael Anderson kill. With SAU still leading by six at 12-6, Judson (15-9, 4-3 CCAC) made a late charge. A block from Charlie Flynn was the lone St. Ambrose point during a 6-1 Judson run that closed the gap to 13-12. The Bees turned to Fox, who put down a kill to give the team a match point at 14-12. And Anthony Anderson followed with a superb serve as his ace closed out the 3-2 victory.

St. Ambrose (7-25, 2-7 CCAC) also came up big late in the first and second sets to take the early lead.

The Bees erased one Eagle set point in the opener before consecutive kills from Mikolaj Zielonka and Anthony Anderson closed out the 29-27 win. A late kill from Guch and a pair from Fox helped SAU hold off Judson in the second 25-23. The Eagles responded by controlling the third and fourth sets before the Bees bounced back to claim victory in the fifth.

Guch led the team with 13 kills. Fox finished with six and Flynn had five. Zielonka (four), Cael Anderson (three) and Anthony Anderson (two) had multiple kills, while Zander Larson put down one.

Anthony Anderson handed out a team-high 31 assists. Andreas Indicatti Mariani was credited with four. Zielonka, who registered five of the team's eight aces, and Ethan Karban shared team-high honors with eight digs apiece. Dillon Markley picked up six digs. Flynn was in on eight total blocks while Fox recorded four.

St. Ambrose will close the regular season at Viterbo Tuesday.