Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 LAKE WALES, Fla - The Royals hit the road to North Carolina to face NCAA Barton College, Bluefield University, and finished their trip with an ACC matchup against St. Andrews University in a three day span.


    Week five marked the completion of the first conference round match ups. Prior to the Royals facing their final opponents for conference play they made a stop in North Carolina to play against Barton College, an NCAA team part of the Carolina Conference. 

The Royals performed well against the division one men's program, the first two sets were close, 21-25 & 22-25, the Royals produced many great rallies and were able to prolong the sets against the Bulldogs, Romone Rudolph stirred much trouble as his point of contact wasn't met by the Bulldogs allowing the Royals to almost close out the first and second set. In the last set the Royals were unable to counter attack on the backsideside of the adjustments on the serve by the Bulldogs, 14-25.

After the Royals' encounter with the Bulldogs, they traveled up north to Virginia for the first conference match of the week against Bluefield. The Rams challenged the Royals every point, creating an intense atmosphere off and on the court but the Royals overcame the opposition to win in four sets. The Royals rallied together behind Mehmet and Quentin each accumulating 12 kills and 12 digs, 25-21 / 25-23 / 16-25 / 25-23. 

The last match of  the week was against the St. Andrew's Knights. Both teams came out strong the first set but with consistent and strong serving it took the Royals out of the first set. The following two sets were met with the same serves by the Knights and the Royals were unable to make much of it. 21-25 / 13-25 / 12-25. 


Highlight Players: 
Quentin Maddock 
22 kills - 22 digs 
Imanol Davila Morales 
73 assists – 15 digs – 4 kills – 4 blocks
Romone Rudolph 
25 kills – 6 blocks 
Blake Rosen 
40 digs – 4 assists – 2 aces  - 2.3 SR

UP NEXT:
The Royals will travel to Jacksonville, Fla to face Edward Waters University on Wednesday, March 6th at 5pm.