OWINGS MILLS, Md. – The Wilkes University men's volleyball team competed in its inaugural Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) match Saturday afternoon at Stevenson University, falling in straight sets (25-12, 25-14, 25-14).

Wilkes is now 2-6 overall and 0-1 in the MAC while Stevenson moved to 3-4 overall and 1-0 in the conference.

The Mustangs opened the first set with the first six points before Dylan Smith (York, Pa./Dallastown) and Daniel Sales (Laflin, Pa./James M. Coughlin) recorded consecutive kills. The Colonels never could string together more than two points in a row as Stevenson pulled away to a 25-12 victory.

The Colonels recorded their only three-point run of the match in the second set with a kill from Jones Mensah (Philadelphia, Pa./Central) and two Stevenson errors but the Mustangs won the set 25-14.

A Smith kill brought the third set score to 8-4 but Wilkes was unable to build any momentum and Stevenson mirrored the second set final score at 25-14 and took the match 3-0.

Sales led the way with eight kills and also had seven assists and seven digs. Smith was second on the team with six kills and Kyle Price (Mountaintop, Pa./Crestwood) tied Sales for the team-lead with seven digs. Salvatore Purpura (Plains, Pa./James M. Coughlin) had a team-high 11 assists and added three digs.

Landon Shorts led the Mustangs offense with 13 kills and Jared Chin had 29 assists. Derek Tangorra led the defense with 10 digs.

The Colonels will host their first MAC game Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. when they welcome Messiah College to the Marts Center.