Loretto, Pa. (1/20/24)  The Dominican University New York men's volleyball team earned the program's first victory with a 3-1 win over Central State University in their final match of the day at the Saint Francis University Tri-match.

The Chargers improve to 1-1 on the season with the split.

Match One

The program's first ever match was against the host and saw the Red Flash take home the 3-0 victory (25-13, 25-15, 25-21).

Freshman Phinehas Wiley (Cedarburg, Wis.) led the Chargers with six kills and added four digs.

Ayden Shaw (Centennial, Colo.) added four kills and three solo blocks, while setter Luke Koster (Geneva, Ill.) had 13 assists.

Match Two

Dominican bounced back to take home a 3-1 (25-15, 23-25, 25-14, 25-20) victory over the Marauders.

The Charger offense produced a .579 attack percentage in the first set and a .577 in the third frame and recorded double digit kills in all four sets (14, 14, 16, 15).

DUNY never trailed in the first set and used an 11-4 charge to jump ahead, 19-12.  A 6-1 closing set run gave the program their first-ever set win.

Central State rebounded to win the second stanza, but the Chargers charged to a 25-14 set three win. Wiley finished with four kills in the set.

With Dominican leading 22-20 in the final set, the block assist by Jacob Davidson (Bloomington, Ind.) and Gavin Tate (Appleton, Wis.) and a kill from Tate put the Chargers at match point.  Wiley recorded the game-winning kill off the pass from Koster for the 25-20 win and 3-1 mathch victory.

Wiley led all attackers with career highs of 18 kills, a.353 attack percentage and 12 defensive digs.

Tate produced career highs of 14 kills and a .686 attack percentage, while Koster also had a career high 46 assists.  Davidson tallied nine kills and Shaw finished with eight kills.

Dominican returns to action on Friday evening in their home opener against D'Youville University.  Match time is slated for 7pm on Coach Baxter Court in the Hennessy Center.