BOSTON, Mass. – In their best match of the 2021 season, volleyball earned a hard-fought five-set victory over Johnson and Wales University Tuesday evening at the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium.

THE BASICS
UMass Boston 3, Johnson & Wales University 2

UMass Boston (4-6)
Johnson & Wales University (4-4)

HOW IT HAPPENED

Leading 14-13 in the fifth set, UMB closed the door on the Wildcats thanks to a thunderous kill by Marcelle Tiscareno (El Paso, Texas). Setting-up the back-and-forth deciding set, UMB rallied from a 1-0 deficit with a 25-18 win in the second and a 25-19 win in the third. JWU evened the score at 25-15 in the fourth.

Tiscareno's night consisted of 13 kills and a .281 hitting percentage, while Emilia Czapiewska (Saint Paul, Minn.) also registered 13 put downs, and led the match with a .290 clip.

Aleks Qose (Athens, Greece) was the third Beacon to finish in double-figures as she registered 11 kills. Carsen Komminsk (Worthington, Ohio) tallied 34 assists, and a pair of aces. Taryn Broughal (Stamford, Conn.) had a career-best seven aces to help the offense, while defensively she posted three block solos and two block assists.

Tiscareno was a wall as she scored six block solos and a block assist. Ally Dean had a career-night for the Beacons defense with her 20 digs, with Komminsk tallying 11 digs to complete a solid double-double for the senior.
On the night both teams hit .092, with the Beacons scoring a combined 16 aces.

Peyton Oliver led the Wildcats with 14 kills, and had two solo blocks and three block assists.

BY THE NUMBERS

• All-time the Beacons lead the series with JWU 6-1
• Tuesday's match marked the first time that the Wildcats faced the Beacons in Clark Gym since the 2011 season
• Tuesday's match marked the first time that JWU and UMB went to five-sets
• Tiscareno needs just three block assists to become the 10^th player in program history to record 100 in a career
• She also now sits with 64 block solos which moves her into a tie for 10^th in program history
• Komminsk now needs 233 assists to move into a tie for second all-time in assists (1,862)

WHO'S NEXT
The Beacons will travel to Emmanuel College on Thursday for a 7 p.m. non-conference match.