The Dominican University men's volleyball team hit .386 and posted ten total blocks as the Stars swept the Benedictine University Eagles (25-18, 25-19, 25-18) on Wednesday night in the Igini Sports Forum for Dominican's ninth straight win.  Dominican's Luke Spicer and Adam Eboli logged seven block assists apiece while Nick Timreck posted three total blocks with a solo block and a pair of block assists.
 
Trailing 8-6 in the opening set, the Stars rattled off two separate four-point spurts.  The first saw Spicer and Eboli combine for back-to-back blocks before the run was capped by a block by Eboli and senior Michal Kawa.  After an Eagles' sideout, Dominican's Alex Coyne used three different attackers as Eboli, Kawa and Jeremy Royko logged kills to open a 14-9 lead and force a Benedictine timeout.  The Stars closed out the opening set going 15-for-19 on sideouts and not allowing the Eagles to string together an attack.
 
The Stars hit .520 in the opening set, committing just two errors while Spicer, Royko and Kawa knocked down four kills apiece.
 
The Eagles kept pace with Dominican through much of the second set until the Stars rattled off six straight points late in the set to open a 23-16 lead.  Kawa capped the stretch with his lone ace of the match.  The Stars again kept the Eagles from getting back into the set, posting a .780 sideout percentage.
 
In the third set, Benedictine again kept pace early before the Dominican block took over.  Leading 18-16, the Stars strung together six straight points sparked by a pair of Eboli/Spicer blocks to open a 24-16 lead before a Benedictine service error, the Eagles 12^th of the night, put the match away.
 
Spicer knocked down a team-high 13 kills in the winning effort while Eboli hit at a .778 clip with seven kills on nine swings.  Royko added nine kills while Coyne ran the Stars' offense to a .386 attack percentage, dishing out 35 assists.
 
"Consistency…it's what we've been preaching all season," said Dominican University's head coach Dan Ames. "We are still looking to get to another level of play, but right now will take the consistency we saw on the court tonight. The team has worked hard these last few matches and it is starting to show. Our focus now is on our next two matches."
 
The Stars, now 9-1 on the season and 6-0 in the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League, will head to Ohio this weekend, taking on California Lutheran and Wittenberg University on Friday in Springfield, Ohio, before meeting Mount St. Joseph and Nazareth College on Saturday in Cincinnati.