The Stanford men’s volleyball team notched its second win of the season in commanding fashion on Monday night, sweeping Quincy in a nonconference tilt. The Cardinal’s 30-22, 30-23, 30-22 victory over the Hawks took just an hour.

After being swept by No. 8 Pacific (11-9) on Friday night, Stanford (2-17) returned home and broke a seven-match losing streak with the three-game victory.

“[The win will] greatly help our confidence,” head coach John Kosty said. “We always knew how to win, but it is good to put one in the books.”

The momentum of the sweep should help the Cardinal this coming weekend as it looks to create a winning streak by beating No. 12 Long Beach and UC-San Diego — against whom the Cardinal won its first match on Feb. 3.

“Our team is confident,” Kosty said. “They always have been confident, and they have always competed. It is going to be fun going into this weekend with the win under our belt.”

The Cardinal more than doubled Quincy’s hitting percentage and bested the Hawks (3-13) in kills, service aces and blocks as well.

Stanford scored the first three points of the opening game with Quincy and quickly pulled ahead by five. The Hawks used a three-point run to come within two, only to have the Cardinal respond with seven straight. Quincy could not get back into the game and Stanford won, 30-22, on a kill by freshman right side hitter Evan Romero.

The Cardinal missed a serve to open the second, but then scored seven of the next ten to go up for good. The Hawks could come no closer than two, as the Cardinal closed the game on a 5-2 run, clinching it with a block by junior outside hitter Matt Ceran and sophomore middle blocker Brandon Williams.

Stanford made it a clean sweep with another early lead. Quincy called its first timeout at 7-2. After closing to 12-10, the Hawks missed a serve and three straight attacks to put the Cardinal farther ahead. Stanford led at 22-12 and held onto that margin, winning 30-22 on another Romero kill.

“We put in a very consistent match,” Kosty said. “I was excited to see our guys play a good sideout game and also a very good point-scoring game.”

Romero finished with a match-high 17 kills, hitting .393 on the match. Freshman Kawika Shoji — starting at outside hitter after setting for most of the season — notched 11 kills on .304 hitting.

Along with his eight kills, Williams led the team at the net with six blocks, two of them solo. Senior libero Brian Lindberg finished with a match-high 11 digs. Sophomore Miki Groppi set for the match and dished out 37 assists.

“We’re just working things out, experimenting with our lineup” Kosty said. “Miki has done a really good job, and so has Kawika, and they are battling for the setting position. And the outside hitting position is also in a good solid battle. I like both lineups, and I think we’re good in both.”

The Cardinal originally made the change partway through Friday’s three-game loss at Pacific, as the team tried to shake off what has become a pattern this season — three-game losses by small margins. After dropping the first game, 30-23, Stanford pushed the Tigers to the brink in the second, but fell short in the 34-32 finish. Pacific rolled through the third game, 30-21, for the sweep.

The Tigers raced out to a 9-4 lead and the Cardinal could not come back from the deficit. A kill by junior outside hitter Matt Ceran brought Stanford within two, but the Tigers used a 7-1 run to put the game out of reach. Stanford fought off a game point, but missed a serve to give Pacific the win.

The setting change at the start of the second game sparked the Cardinal, but its rally fell just short. Shoji opened the frame with a kill for Stanford’s first lead of the night, and the Cardinal stretched the lead to 7-4, holding off the Tigers for most of the game until finally yielding a tie at 18-all. Pacific finally took over the lead at 25-24, and the teams traded the lead down the stretch. Stanford had game point at 29-28, but could not convert. After each team failed to seal the win twice, Pacific finally notched a kill to finish the second game, 34-32.

The third game began much like the first — with a Shoji kill and a Stanford lead. Pacific came alive, though, reeling off six unanswered points to leave Stanford behind. The Cardinal would not come within three points for the rest of the night, dropping the final game by a nine-point margin.

“The scores I think were not a true indication of how close the match really was,” Kosty said. “We had our opportunities in all three games, but we gave up a couple of streaks in game one and game three that put UOP over the edge. We were there and we had our swings, but we just didn’t take care of our opportunities.”

Williams led the Cardinal offense with 10 kills, with Shoji and Ceran each chipping in nine. Shoji made only one error, hitting a team-high .500 on the night.

Freshman middle blocker Garrett Werner hit .455 with six kills and led the team with seven blocks. Sophomore libero Jarod Keller notched a match-high nine digs.

The Cardinal will be back in the gym this weekend for a final homestand (before a break for final exams) with Long Beach and UC-San Diego on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Both matches will begin at 7 p.m. in Maples Pavilion.