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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Second-ranked New Paltz rallied from a one-set deficit Sunday against Nazareth to hand the Golden Flyers their first United Volleyball Conference loss of the season. New Paltz won in four sets by scores of 15-25, 25-7, 25-16, 25-23.

Combined with wins over Vassar and MIT Saturday, Nazareth finished 2-1 at the UVC Crossover at MIT and finished the weekend with a 4-3 overall record and a 3-1 mark in conference play. New Paltz improved to 10-1 overall and 4-0 in UVC play. Nazareth, ranked sixth nationally by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, visits Medaille Wednesday for another UVC match at 7 p.m.

Sophomores Tim Zyburt and Grant Levermore finished with 11 and eight kills respectively for the Golden Flyers, who couldn't contain New Paltz's Tim Ferriter, who finished with a match-high 17 kills with just one hitting error in 22 attempts for a tidy .696 hitting percentage.

Zyburt had five kills early on as Nazareth built a one-set lead. The Golden Flyers' offense collapsed in the second set as they committed 10 hitting errors to enable the Hawks to square the match at one set each.

In the third set, New Paltz got five kills from Ferriter and hit a collective .632 (13-1-19) to take control. The fourth set was close throughout and was tied at 23-23 following a kill by Nazareth's Luke Lawatsch. The Hawks, however, snapped the tie and closed out the match behind a kill by Christopher Husmann and a block by Steven Woessner.

Lawatsch and junior Brody Cord each had six kills for Nazareth and junior Nick McDonagh had 31 assists and nine digs.