NEW LONDON, N.H. – January 20, 2020 – The Colby-Sawyer men's volleyball team picked up a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly awards after beginning the season 2-2 las week.

Sophomore Orlando Plagata (Los Angeles, Calif.) was named GNAC Defensive Player of the Week, while first-year Giovani Dos Reis (Hillside, N.J.) earned Rookie of the Week honors.

Plagata led the Colby-Sawyer defensive effort with 4.00 digs per set and 56 digs overall in the opening weekend in New York in the Chargers' second varsity season. He posted double digit digs in each of the four matches, highlighted by a 22-dig effort in a tough 3-1 loss to Neumann.

Dos Reis contributed 1.86 kills per set and 26 total kills to help the Chargers to a 2-2 record. He hit .146, added 10 aces and collected 33 digs. He had eight kills, 15 digs and five aces against Neumann.
The Chargers play at Eastern Nazarene on Thursday.

Full GNAC release > HERE

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