DE PERE, Wis. - The Rockford University men's volleyball team suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 loss on Saturday afternoon to the St. Norbert College Green Knights. Rockford took a quick 2-0 lead after winning the first two sets in thrilling fashion (25-23 and 30-28). The Green Knights responded by forcing a fifth and deciding set by eking a 25-23 win in the third and coasting to a 25-13 win in fourth. Unfortunately, Rockford never led in the fifth and dropped its second straight match to St. Norbert. Despite the loss, Rockford broke a total of ten school records in the match. Josh Albers broke the single-game assists (56) and assists per set (11.2) records, and Da'Quan Bates broke the single-game digs record (24). The Regents also broke team records for kills (62), assists (60), assists per set (12.0), digs (94), digs per set (18.8), attacks (187) and attacks per set (37.4).

• Rockford opened the match on a 5-1 run and never trailed in the first set. Josh Albers led the way with Rockford's first two kills of the day. 
• The Regents would extend their lead to as many as six on two occasions, with the latter coming off a Nathan Vana kill to make it 13-7.
• However, St. Norbert would slowly chip away at the Rockford lead until the Green Knights tied the set at 22-22. 
• After the Regents and Green Knights traded points, Rockford scored the final two points of the set for the 25-23 win. 
• St. Norbert seemingly had control of the second set after taking a 14-9 lead.
• Fortunately, Rockford slowly worked its way back into the match and found itself down just two at 24-22.
• The Regents were able to stave off a trio of set points, before taking their first lead of the set at 26-25. 
• The two teams continued to trade points until Rockford strung together two in a row, capped off by a Connor McNear kill, to win the second set 30-28. 
• The Green Knights again took an early 12-4 advantage to start the third set. 
• With St. Norbert still leading 19-13, the Regents went on a 7-1 spurt to tie the set at 20-20. A trio of Regents had a kill over that span, led by two from Nathan Vana. 
• Unfortunately, the Green Knights were able to score the next two points, and then trade points with Rockford the rest of the way, to take the third set 25-23. 
• The fourth set was actually much closer than what it appeared, as Rockford trailed just 12-10 midway through. 
• However, the Green Knights outscored the Regents 13-3 from that point on, including the final eight points, to win the fourth set 25-13 and tie the match at 2-2. 
• Rockford again started slowly in the fifth set, falling behind 9-5. 
• Fortunately, Rockford promptly scored four of the next five points and pulled back to within one following an Isaiah Dixon kill. 
• Unfortunately, the Regents never got any closer, dropping the fifth set 15-12 and the match 3-0. 

• Isaiah Dixon finished with a match and career-high 17 kills and 10 digs for his first career double-double. He also added 1 block and 1 assist. 
• Josh Albers broke the school records for both assists (56) and assists per set (12.0). He also had a career-high 23 digs, 4 kills and 2 blocks. 
• Nathan Vana finished with a season-high 11 kills, 6 digs and a block.
• Da'Quan Bates broke the RU record with 24 digs in the match. 
• Derek Jones added 8 kills, 4 digs and 4 blocks.

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