FREDERICK, Md.- The Hood College men's volleyball team fell to both Eastern and Misericordia in the first Middle Atlantic Conference matches in program history. 

   Set Scores    

• After Hood won the first set 25-22, the Eagles won the next three sets 25-16, 25-18, 25-16.   

• The Blazers fell to the Cougars 25-5, 25-0, 25-0 in a match that was stopped early. 

Inside the Box Score    

• Marc Fitzkee (York, Pa./Central York) led the Blazers with 18 kills. He also led the Hood in digs 10. 

• Adam Bartice (Washington, D.C./Woodrow Wilson) tallied 31 assists.    

• Will Javier Rojas (Reading, Pa./Reading) had 17 kills.  

• All three players had two aces. 

Eastern 3, Hood 1    

• In the first set, the Eagles jumped out to a 5-2 lead. The Blazers answered by going on a 9-1 run with two kills from Fitzkee and two kills from Javier Rojas to make the score 11-6 Hood. Kills by Andres Suarez Batista and Max Bagileo for Eastern and Blazer errors allowed the Eagles to tie the game 19-19. Three kills by Fitzkee helped the Blazers pull away to win the first set 25-22. 

• Javier Rojas and Fitzkee had five kills apiece in the set. 

• Hood pulled within 8-7 in the second set before an 8-2 run by Eastern stretched the lead to 16-9.After a block by Will Fitch (Upper Marlboro, Md./Frederick Douglass) and Bartice, and a kill by Fitzkee cut the deficit to five, the Eagles scored seven of the next nine points to put the set out of reach. 

• In the third set, Hood jumped out to a 4-1 lead behind two aces by Javier Rojas, but the Eagles tied it with three straight points. Hood still led 11-10 when an 8-0 run for Eastern allowed Eastern to take an 18-11 lead. Hood never got closer than five over the rest of the set. 

• A kill by Fitch gave the Blazers an early 3-1 lead in the fourth set, but a 9-1 run that followed by Eastern gave the Eagles the lead for good.  

•  Bagileo had 11 kills for Eastern. 

• Chris Millerm had 32 assists or the Eagles. 

• Jeremiah Pha led both teams with 12 digs. 

Misericordia 3, Hood 0  

• The Blazers started the match with just six able-bodied players. After a Hood injury trailing 9-5 in the first set, the Cougars were awareded a 25-5, 25-0, 25-0 win. 

Up Next     

  The Blazers travel to play the Knights of Arcadia University on Wednesday, March 8 at 7 p.m.