BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kacper Taudul's 19-kill, 17-dig double-double performance on Saturday afternoon inside the College Center Gym highlighted a hard-fought battle won by the D'Youville University men's volleyball team over Elmira College 3-1 (25-22, 29-27. 21-25, 25-20).

The win for the Saints snapped a 13-match losing streak to Elmira that dated back to Feb. 20, 2013 with the last victory in the series coming on Feb. 22, 2012, 3-2 (25-18, 22-25, 25-22, 20-25, 10-15) in Buffalo.

First Set

· DYU would see a see-saw affair break out as neither team could string together more than two consecutive points until after EC took a 17-16 lead.

· EC would see its one-point lead evaporate into a three-point deficit thanks to kills from DYU's Haven Wankerl, Taudul and Anthony Dean in order followed by an attack error on EC.

· With DYU ahead 22-18, EC put together a 4-1 run to close it to 23-22 before the Saints got a kill by Randy Adorno and an RC attack error by Alberto Mauricio to close out the set.

Second Set

· The fans in attendance were treated to another set that neither team wanted to lose as a back-and-forth battle ensued with no more than a pair of points earned in a row occurring once again until late in the set.

· DYU turned a two-point deficit into a two-point lead with a pair of kills and a pair of EC attack errors.

· DYU staved off two set points to earn the set win by taking four of the final five points.

Third Set

· DYU jumped out to a 7-2 lead thanks to three kills by Wankerl, three attack errors from EC and a service error from EC.

· Down 9-4, the Soaring Eagles strung together a scoring run of 11-2 to take a 15-11 lead.

· The Saints simply could not recover and hit just .091 (10-7-33) for the set, which would prove to be their worst hitting percentage of any of the four sets.

Fourth Set

· DYU would then force EC into its worst single-set hitting percentage of the match when the Soaring Eagles attacked at just a .086 clip (11-8-35).

· The Saints owned a lead by as many as five on two different occasions (9-4 and 17-12) before coasting the rest of the way for the set and match victory.

· The fourth set ended with the one thing that both teams must work on going forward and that is back-to-back service errors as both teams combined for 33 on the match.

Inside the Numbers

19-1: The number of service errors to aces for EC.

14-3: The number of service errors to aces for DYU.

.086: The hitting percentage (11-8-35) that EC was held to in the fourth set.

Up Next

The Saints return to the College Center Gym next weekend in an effort to jump over the .500 winning percentage as DYU is set to take on Saint Francis (PA) at 5 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 25.