Na­tion­al se­nior and Un­der-23 in­door and beach vol­ley­baller Daynte Stew­art led the In­di­ana Tech Uni­ver­si­ty men's vol­ley­ball team in style Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon at the Schae­fer Cen­ter, In­di­ana, USA as they up­set No 2-ranked Camp­bellsville Uni­ver­si­ty, 3-1 (26-24, 27-25, 24-26, 25-23).

The Elec­tri­cal En­gi­neer­ing Sopho­more had a match-high 14 kills to go along with a .237 at­tack per­cent­age, three ser­vices aces, four blocks and 10 digs. Ma­son Mi­lan had sev­en kills and 11 digs while Dante Sir­a­cusa had six kills. Bran­don Jones dished out 34 as­sists in his col­le­giate de­but along with six digs while Joey Her­mes had 17 digs. Stew­art was in the top three in every pos­i­tive sta­tis­ti­cal cat­e­go­ry.

Com­ing off a come-from-be­hind vic­to­ry against Goshen Col­lege Fri­day evening, Camp­bellsville raced out to an 8-3 lead over the War­riors in their sec­ond sea­son af­ter near­ly a 40-year hia­tus un­der head coach Kyle Shon­dell. The Tigers pushed their lead to 13-7 and then to 15-9 and caus­ing the War­riors to call a time­out. A kill from Stew­art out of the time­out pro­pelled the War­riors on a 7-2 spurt to come with­in a point at 17-16 and forc­ing the vis­i­tors to call a time­out.

Camp­bellsville held strong though and main­tained the lead for the next 11 points un­til a 3-0 run, punc­tu­at­ed with a kill from Sir­a­cusa, put the Or­ange and Black on top 23-22 and lead­ing to an­oth­er time­out from the Tigers. Af­ter split­ting the next three points to get to a 24-24 dead­lock, kills from Chase Chris­tiansen and Stew­art gave the hosts the 26-24 win in the open­ing set.

The tight play con­tin­ued in­to the sec­ond set, a set that saw 17 ties and 12 lead changes, with nei­ther side hold­ing more than a point lead un­til the Tigers got up 8-6 fol­low­ing a 3-0 spurt. Camp­bellsville grew their lead to 13-9, but four Tiger er­rors, along with a block from Stew­art, tied the match up at 14-14 and led to a CU time­out.

The War­riors found them­selves trail­ing 16-14 but used a 3-0 lead to go back on top 17-16. Tech con­tin­ued to fight back against the Tigers and even­tu­al­ly got on top 23-21, on­ly to see the vis­i­tors go up 25-24. A ser­vice er­ror from CU was fol­lowed by an at­tack er­ror on the Tigers while Mi­lan put the Or­ange and Black up 2-0 match with a kill for the 27-25 set win.

Find­ing them­selves down 2-0 for the sec­ond time in less than 24 hours, the Tigers knew they could not let the mo­men­tum slip too far away in the third. The War­riors at­tempt­ed to grab the mo­men­tum for good as a 3-0 spurt put them up 17-14 be­fore ex­tend­ing their lead to 19-15. CU bat­tled back to knot the set up at 19-19 and de­spite falling be­hind 23-20, did not fal­ter as they came roar­ing back 4-0 run to force set point. A kill from Raek­won Rogers made it 24-all, but the vis­i­tors took the next two points to make it a 2-1 match.

The War­riors got out ahead 7-5 in the fourth, but the Tigers showed their tough­ness by bat­tling back to take a 12-11 lead. The teams con­tin­ued to bat­tle and com­bined for 13 ties in the set. Tech went ahead 18-17 to force a Camp­bellsville time­out and grew their small ad­van­tage to 23-20 to force the Tigers to use their last time­out to try and stave off the up­set.

The Tigers man­aged to fight off two match points to make it a 24-23 set, but a ser­vice er­ror from CU made it of­fi­cial as the War­riors clinched the biggest win in pro­gram his­to­ry.

Tech (1-0) was sched­uled to re­turn to ac­tion yes­ter­day, to take on Quin­cy Uni­ver­si­ty in a non-con­fer­ence match-up.