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Dayton Leads Balanced Lewis Past Raiders

Lewis 3, Rutgers-Newark 0 (30-24, 30-28, 30-22)

NEWARK, NJ (January 12, 2007) - Junior outside hitter Jared Dayton (Laguna Hills, CA/Mission Viejo HS) paced Lewis with 18 kills and two aces as the Flyers (2-0) spoiled Rutgers-Newark's season opener, 3-0, in The Golden Dome.  Game scores were 30-24, 30-28, 30-22.

Senior outside hitter Eric Honsberger (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster Central) hammered down a match-high 19 kills for Rutgers-Newark, hitting .429 (19-4-35), but Lewis hit .441 (58-13-102) as a team to overwhelm the young Scarlet Raider squad.

Dayton, who hit .467 (18-4-30), notched eight kills in game three as the Flyers hit a sizzling .484 (17-2-31) to thwart any hopes of a Scarlet Raider rally after Rutgers-Newark pushed the Flyers in game two.

Led by freshman opposite Nate Stott (Clovis, CA/Clovis), who had four of his six kills in the frame, the Raiders had 14 kills with just one error in game two.  But, Flyer sophomore opposite David Kelnhofer (Waukesah, WI/Catholic Memorial) recorded six of his 10 kills in the same game as Lewis collected 25 kills on .513 hitting to gain a two-game lead.

Sophomore outside hitter Drew Pickering (Wauwatosa, WI/Wauwatosa West) had a dozen kills, hitting .455, and added the Flyers' third kill of the match.  Sophomore middle blocker Billy Sahagian (Bartlett, IL/Bartlett) hit had seven kills on 10 swings with just one error while sophomore libero Nick Perakes (Orlando, FL/Cypress Creek) bumped up 11 digs.  Sophomore setter David Taylor (St. Louis, MO/CBC) tallied 37 assists, four kills and five blocking assists.

For the Raiders, sophomore setter Mark Hulse (Evanston, IL/Evanston Township) had 33 assists, eight kills, an ace, one solo block and two assisted blocks.  Senior middle Clinton Haugan (Ojai, CA/Nordhoff) collected six kills, an ace and a solo block.