GLENSIDE, Pa. -- The No. 13 Arcadia men's volleyball team split a pair of league matches on Saturday afternoon in Alumni Gymnasium. The Knights opened with a 3-1 loss to No. 6 Stevenson, and closed out play with a 3-0 win over Misericordia.
 
With the split, the Knights stand a 19-5 on the season and are now tied with Stevenson stop the league table with a 7-1 mark in MAC play.
 
No. 6 Stevenson 3, No. 13 Arcadia 1 (25-20, 20-25, 25-22, 26-24)
The Knights were held to .117 hitting in the loss, while the Mustangs hit .236 as a team, mitigating a whopping 20 service errors in holding off AU. The Knights were led by Jason Manley and Quinn Baily, who had 14 kills apiece. Manley contributed four blocks, and Baily added eight digs and a pair of service aces. Austin Braas chipped in 11 kills, and Zayne George led the Scarlet & Grey with 11 digs. Anthony Devantier had 42 assists.
 
Landon Shorts led the Mustangs with 14 kills, hitting .480 for the match. Jason Gardner added 11 and Christian Taylor had 43 assists. Derek Tangorra led SU with 12 digs.
 
After each team posted a 25-20 win in the first two sets, the third set was tied at 19-19 following a kill from Braas before Stevenson scored three of the next four points to assume a 22-20 lead. The Knights pulled within one point on two occasions (22-21, 23-22), but The Mustangs got kills from Logan Smiley and Shorts to close out the set and take a 2-1 lead.
 
In the fourth set, the Knights trailed 11-7 before using a 7-3 run to knot things up at 14-14. Still tied late in the set (19-19) a 4-2 spurt by AU gave the home team a 23-21 lead before the Mustangs rattled off three straight points to take a 24-23 lead. Baily tied things up at 24-24 with his final kill of the match, but Stevenson scored the next two points to seal the set and escape with a 3-1 win.
 
No. 13 Arcadia 3, Misericordia 0 (25-20, 25-22, 25-12)
The Knights shook off a slow start to sweep the Cougars and salvage a split on the day.
 
Edwin Waters Jr. led AU with eight kills, Dan Paraskevov had five, and Robie Moctezuma and Braas added four apiece in a balance offensive attack. Alvyn Abraham (16) and Devantier (10) shared setting duties, George led the way with eight digs, and Baily added five digs and three service aces.
 
Brian Ross led Misericordia with eight kills and Ryan Miller had seven. Conner Westerfield posted nine digs.
 
The Knights trailed for a good portion of the first set, but after battling back to tie the score at 18-18, AU used a 7-2 surge to close out the set, taking a 1-0 lead on a Jarod Pichler kill.
 
The second set saw Misericordia erase an early seven-point deficit to pull within one at 17-16. The lead for AU was pushed back to three (23-20), but the Cougars hung tough and a Jordan Spidle kill made it 23-22. Paraskevov pushed the Knights to the brink of winning with a kill, and Spidle's attack error on set point gifted the Knights a 2-0 lead.
 
The Knights led 7-6 in the third, but took control with an 11-1 run that pushed the lead to 18-7. The Cougars never got closer than 10 the rest of the way, and Amadeus Cannon punctuated the win with a service ace on match point.
 
The Knights host Alvernia on Wednesday beginning at 7 p.m.