Talk about a mixed bag of emotions.

On Friday, the No. 10 Penn State men's volleyball team had its 22-match home-winning streak snapped on Senior Night by No. 11 Lewis 3-0 (30-28, 30-27, 30-23).

But the Nittany Lions (20-6, 12-0 EIVA) were able to rebound on Saturday to defeat No. 15 Concordia (30-28, 28-30, 30-22, 30-14) to clinch the regular season EIVA crown.

"I was real pleased. It would have been real easy to feel a little bit sorry for ourselves," Penn State men's volleyball coach Mark Pavlik said.

Game one, the Lions went into the technical timeout with a 15-14 lead. Lewis (21-5, 14-1 MIVA) would lead 29-28, but the Lions fittingly dropped game one on junior Jose Quinones' service error, one of twenty service errors on the night for the Lions.

Senior Jorge Alifonso registered six of his eight kills in game two as the Lions fell 30-27. Junior Jorge Perez kept the Lions off guard the whole night, getting his hitters clean looks for kills.

"Jorge Perez changed the rhythm of their offense and never allowed us to catch on to their offense," Pavlik said. "He would go fast outside, slow outside. Our block never got onto their offense."

Lewis jumped on the Lions 7-3 to open game three. The Lions were forced to call timeout, and there is where some fireworks occurred. Senior Steve Aird, honored earlier in the night, rushed to the net and got into a verbal confrontation with Lewis' senior Paul Aviles. Aird and Aviles were both issued yellow cards.

"We needed something," Aird said. "Once in a while, you have to do that. I've been around the game long enough to know that sometimes if you get mad enough at the right people, the next thing you know there's a change in momentum."

But Aird's encouragement would not be enough as Barreto had seven of his 19 kills in game three as the Lions lost the game and the match.

"We choked, basically," Quinones said. "We have played better teams than that. To get one block, it makes you wonder what we were thinking out there, it's embarrassing."

After the match, Pavlik said the Lions were "a little bit angry and tomorrow they would have someone to take it out on."

The Lions went into the Concordia match (16-8, 10-2) and vented their frustration, taking out the Clippers in four games.

Sophomore Ashraf Taman, who played well in the first meeting between the teams, was held to a -.086 hitting percentage. Concordia hit just .097 for the match.

After tying the match up at one game apiece, Concordia trailed 17-16 in the third game. Then, off of the service of Guerra and Quinones, the Lions pulled away to win 30-22.

The momentum from game three carried into the fourth and final game as the Lions won 30-14, capping a 43-20 run from the 17-16 point in game three.

"I think the same thing that happen to us against Lewis happened to Concordia," Pavlik said. "They hung in the first two games and then in game three our serve caused them to crack a little bit."

Guerra shook off his poor performance against Lewis and came back big with 23 kills and 12 digs versus Concordia, which led all players. The Lions still struggled on the serve committing 19 errors, but performed much better blocking with 12.5 blocks.

The Lions travel to take on two EIVA opponents, George Mason and Princeton, next weekend.