ASHLAND, Va. – North Park men's volleyball concluded their time in Virginia with a 3-1 win over the Roanoke Maroons before a four-set loss to host Randolph-Macon later on Saturday afternoon.

Match 1: North Park 3, Roanoke 1

Keeping up their habit of starting out hot, driving 18 kills alongside a .536 attacking percentage to take the first set 25-18. The Vikings duplicated this in set two, hitting .481 with 16 kills while holding the Maroons to a .143 total. 

North Park fizzled in the third set but turned things around in a fourth-set clincher, climbing up to a dozen kills.

In the win, North Park posted its highest four-set kills total of the season with 55. 32 of those kills came off big swings from junior outside hitters Vicente Cabrera and Ty Ingrao, who split the difference with 16 each.

Senior middle blocker Parker Payne led the block party with four while senior setter Teddy Gedville and junior middle blocker Sam Robinson had three each. 

Match 2: Randolph-Macon 3, North Park 1

A potential four-match sweep was spoiled by the Yellow Jackets, who drove 51 kills in their four-set win. 

Despite winning the opening set, 25-22, the Vikings played their best in the fourth. NPU had 15 kills and a .462 attacking percentage alongside only three attack errors.

Ingrao had 11 kills while Payne had another match with four blocks. Sophomore pin hitter Pablo Ocasio added three more blocks while senior utility player Kaleb Patrick surpassed double-digit digs with 11.

• NPU's 55 team kills ties for 4th all-time and is tied for the most ever in program history for four-set matches
• NPU's 65 team points ties for 5th all-time in four-set matches
• Cabrera's .520 hitting percentage is 10th all-time among qualifiers. It's the second top-ten hitting percentage match recorded this weekend, as Parker Payne's .714 yesterday against Averett is now 3rd all-time
• Robinson's three solo blocks is tied for 2nd all-time. He is responsible for five of the six occasions in NPU MVB history in which a Viking has recorded three or more solo blocks in a match, including the record-setting five he had against Concordia on Feb. 17.

North Park (7-16, 0-5 CCIW) travels to Dubuque, Iowa next Saturday, March 23, for a match against undefeated and nationally fourth-ranked Loras College. First serve in the Lillis Center is set for 3:00 PM.