Messiah Men’s Volleyball

2008 Division II National Champions & 3 Time Defending MAC Champions

Archive for November, 2005

November 19, 2005

Messiah Fall Tournament CHAMPIONS

The Messiah Men’s Volleyball team won their Annual Fall Tournament on November 19th. After a long day of playing 13 games of volleyball, the men walked out with a first place finish. The day started against Havarford. The jumped out quickly and won both games easily and moved on to play Dickinson. Again, the men played well and won both matches. EMU was next in the pool play. The guys played well in the first game and won 25-16. EMU came back in the second match and played extremely well against Messiah, winning 14-25. Because of the two point differential, the Falcon’s took a second place finish in the pool, meaning they had to play the Messiah Alumni team in the first round of playoffs. The men jumped out quickly against the old guys and won the match in two games. Next on the list was Millersville for the semi-final round. The match went to three games, Messiah winning the first and Millersville the second. In the third game, the Falcons were down 12-11. After a serving error against Messiah, the score suddenly turned from being down by one to down by three, 10-13. It was a do or die situation for the men and they stepped up to the challenge. Fighting 5 straight points, Messiah won the match and a chance to play EMU again. This time the men didn’t overlook their opponents and won both games to win the whole tournament.