RedStorm throttles Midway in Senior Night rout

Rio Grande Sports Information
     RIO GRANDE, Ohio - It was exactly how Senior Night was supposed to work.
     The University of Rio Grande set a new season-high for attack percentage and trailed just once the entire night en route to a 3-0 (25-13, 25-17, 25-20) rout of Midway University, Tuesday night, in Mid-South Conference men's volleyball action at the Newt Oliver Arena.
     The RedStorm improved to 12-17 overall and 3-6 in conference play with the win.
     Midway finished its regular season at 2-21 overall and 0-10 in the MSC.
     The Eagles managed only one more kill (14) than they had attack errors (13) over 66 swings for a .015 percentage.
     The only lead the visitors enjoyed came at 10-9 in the second set following a service ace by Daniel Cogo.
     Rio Grande finished with 45 kills and just 11 errors in 67 attacks for a sizzling .507 swing percentage.
     The RedStorm, who raced to a 7-2 lead in set one before scoring the final five points of the stanza to grab an early match lead, responded to Cogo's go-ahead ace with eight straight winners and never trailed again.
     Midway did forge ties at 1-, 2-, 10- and 11-all and remained as close as 16-15 in the third period, but Rio scored seven of the next eight winners to pull away for good.
     Senior Caden Donaldson (Jackson, OH), one of two players honored in pre-game ceremonies, tallied a match-high 20 kills.
     Junior Seth Mohr (Canton, OH), the other pre-game honoree, had a team-high eight digs and two service aces in the winning effort.
     Sophomore Mitch Bartecki (Valparaiso, IN) had 36 assists for the RedStorm, while freshman Otavio Tonoli (Campinas, Brazil) had eight digs of his own. Tonoli and junior Cam Griffith (Columbus, OH) had two block assists each.
     Joseph Boujaoude led Midway with four kills, a solo block and three block assists, while Cogo had five assists and Jonathan McGuyer had four digs.
     Gabriel Plata added two service aces in a losing cause.
     Rio Grande is scheduled to return to action next Tuesday when it hosts nationally-ranked Georgetown (Ky.) College in its regular season finale.
     Game time for the match, which was rescheduled from a weather postponement last week, has yet to be announced.