GREENVILLE, Pa. — The Thiel College men's volleyball team saw their season come to an end as they fell to the Redmen of Carthage College by a score 3-0 in the Midwest-III championship contest held in Greenville.

The fourth ranked Redmen defeated the Tomcats by scores of 25-19, 25-20, and 25-21 respectively.

Offensively, the Tomcats were led by sophomore Dante McCoy (Reading, Pa., Holy Name) who registered 12 kills on the day. Freshman Corey Hamilton (Meadville, Pa., Maplewood) also played well as he added 29 assists for Thiel.

Defensively, the Tomcats (10-20) were led by Jacob Schultz (Cochranton, Pa., Cochranton) who registered 15 digs for the game.

The Redmen (22-10) defeated the Tomcats in the last ever Midwest-III championship as the conference will be adding five new teams next season and will be changing its name to the Continental Volleyball Conference (CVC) for the 2011-2012 campaign.

Besides the five teams that took part in the Midwest-III championships (Thiel, Carthage, Fontbonne University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and the College of Mount Saint Joseph), five new teams will be added (Juniata, UC-Santa Cruz, Philadelphia Bible College, Stevenson, and Eastern Mennonite) to make a two-division, ten-team conference.

The Tomcats had some success on the court this season, and as a first year program are proud of their accomplishments. However, with no seniors in the program this year, Thiel will look to improve even more and become a contender in the first year of the Continental Volleyball Conference next season.