READING, Pa. - The Elizabethtown College men's volleyball team dropped its first match of the season, falling to Alvernia 3-1 Wednesday night in non-conference action.

With the loss, the Blue Jays fall to 6-1 overall, while the Wolves improve to 3-3 on the season. 

Junior Tony Camillo hit .429 and registered a career-high 12 kills. Classmate Steve Swain finished with 10 kills and sophomore Nate Seeger tallied 36 assists. Junior Cameron Krebs registered nine digs.

Junior Tyler Anderson led Alvernia with a match-high 16 kills and six total blocks. Sophomore Jonny Ortega registered a match-high 13 digs.

After dropping the first two sets to fall into a 2-0 hole, Elizabethtown responded in the third. Trailing by three midway through the frame (12-9), the Blue Jays rattled off three straight points behind a kill from sophomore Nick Chapman and an ace from junior Blake Hildebrand to tie the score at 12. The Wolves moved ahead by two again at 19-17 but Etown was up to the challenge again. Starting and ending with a kill from Camillo, the Blue Jays used a 6-1 run to take a 23-20 lead. Alvernia cut the deficit to one (24-23) but a kill by Swain closed out the 25-23 win in the third, making the match score 2-1.

The Wolves, however, pushed its lead to as many as six in the fourth set, taking the frame 25-20 and closing out the match 3-1.

Elizabethtown remains on the road this weekend with matches against John Jay and York (N.Y.) Saturday, February 12. The Blue Jays will take on John Jay at 11 a.m. and York at 1 p.m.