Brooklyn, NY---The Brooklyn College men's volleyball team fell in CUNYAC action tonight to second-place Baruch tonight in straight sets.  BC drops to 6-15 overall and 3-8 in the CUNYAC.  The Bearcats improve to 11-9 overall and 10-1 in conference play.  Brooklyn will be back in action on Thursday at Medgar Evers.  Opening serve is scheduled for 6:00 PM.  

Despite the Bulldogs jumping out to a 2-0 lead to start the match, the Bearcats would respond in dominant fashion, scoring seven straight points to take a five point lead.  BC never managed to recover from the early Baruch run, eventually dropping the first game, 14-25.  

The Bulldogs would go toe-to-toe with the regular-season CUNYAC championship contender, leading 10-8 to start the second game.  However, the Bearcats scored five straight including back-to-back kills to cap the run, and take a 13-10 lead.  With the Bulldogs trailing 11-13 a couple of points later, Baruch scored six straight and never looked back to win the second game, 25-17.  

Reminiscent of the second game, the Bulldogs would take an early 8-6 lead to start the third game.  Still leading 9-7, Baruch would turn the tables scoring six straight and take the lead for good to sweep the match.  

Freshman outside hitter Vaughn Titus led the Bulldogs with eight kills and five digs.  Sophomore middle hitter Rudy Zhao added four kills and five digs on the evening.  Freshman setter Sayuj Zachariah assisted on 12 kills for the match.