TORONTO – The Ryerson Rams men's volleyball team swept the RMC Paladins on Friday night to rebound from a tough loss last weekend and improve their record to 11-4 on the season. The Rams won 25-15, 25-20, 25-19.

Brandon Jordan (London, Ont.) had a game-high eight kills while Alex Dawson (Scarborough, Ont.) and Rob Wojcik (Whitby, Ont.) added seven kills each in the Rams win.

Both teams started the match with sloppy play, and both teams finished with more errors than kills, but the Rams fought their way back from a 10-8 deficit to lead 16-11 at the technical timeout before closing it out for a 25-15 set win.

The Rams held a sizeable lead in the second before RMC rallied to make things close but ultimately the Rams came away with a 25-20 win to take a 2-0 lead overall.

In the third the home side opened up a 16-7 advantage at the technical timeout but RMC continued to show some fight and closed the gap down the stretch. They came up short of the comeback, however, as the Rams completed the sweep with a 25-19 set victory.

Playing without leading scorer Lucas Coleman (Brooklin, Ont.) or middle Uchenna Ofoha (Markham, Ont.), the Rams did well to spread out their offence and get contributions from some new faces. Marko Milenkovic (Toronto) got his first start and finished with three kills, two digs and a block assist.

“Whenever we're playing well we get a lot of offence out of our middle attackers and that brings balance to everybody,” said head coach Dustin Reid after the game. “You have to serve receive well enough (for that) and for the most part we did well at serve receive.”

RMC's Adam Lupton had a game-high eight kills in the loss.

The Rams return to the court on Saturday night when they host the No. 8 nationally ranked Queen's Gaels (11-3) starting at 8:00 p.m. The two teams met back on October 30 in Kingston where the Rams took the game 3-0.