Ball State swept Quincy on Thursday night and guaranteed the No. 11 Cardinals at least a share of their third MIVA men’s volleyball regular-season title in a row.
In the Pro Volleyball Federation, the Omaha Supernova pulled a little closer to first place with a four-set victory over the Columbus Fury.
Recaps and top performances follow, but first Friday’s schedule, which includes some top-notch men’s matches with top seeding in conference tournaments at stake.
Top-ranked Long Beach State plays host to CSUN in the Big West, where No. 4 Hawai’i is at No. 5 UC Irvine and No. 19 UC San Diego is at UC Santa Barbara. Long Beach is 6-0 and holds a one-game lead on UCI (5-1). Hawai’i is 3-3.
In the MPSF, No. 2 UCLA is home for No. 3 Grand Canyon, No. 6 BYU is at USC, No. 7 Stanford is at Concordia Irvine and No. 8 Pepperdine steps out the league to play The Master’s. Grand Canyon leads the conference at 8-0, a game up on UCLA (7-1). BYU is third at 6-4.
The three EIVA matches show No. 9 Penn State at Charleston, No. 17 Princeton home for NJIT and No. 16 George Mason entertaining Harvard.
The lone match involving a MIVA team has Ohio State playing independent Maryville.
In Conference Carolinas, Mount Olive goes to Emmanuel and Barton is at Erskine.
The NEC has three matches, LIU at Sacred Heart, Saint Francis (PA) at D’Youville and FDU at Merrimack.
Fort Valley State plays an SIAC match at Kentucky State, while the SIAC’s Edward Waters plays Webber International.
The only ECC match has American International at Dominican.
The Pro Volleyball Federation is off until Orlando plays at Grand Rapids on Saturday and we have some news about that.
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NCAA men
Ball State improved to 19-9 overall, 12-3 in the MIVA, with a 25-23, 25-17, 25-15 victory over visiting Quincy (5-18, 1-14) to clinch a tie of the regular-season title. The Cardinals can wrap it up with a victory Saturday when McKendree visits and/or a loss by Loyola Chicago (17-9, 11-4) at Lewis. Nine Cardinals had kills as Ball State hit .411. Tinaishe Ndavazocheva led with nine kills and hit .615 after having one error in 13 attacks. He had two aces, two digs and two blocks, one solo. Rodney Wallace had four kills in five errorless swings and three blocks. Quincy, which has lost 17 in a row, got 18 kills from Raje Alleyne, who hit .433 and had an ace, a block and two digs …
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