Top-ranked Hawai’i and No. 4 Long Beach State won their Big West matches Friday and remain tied for the league lead heading into Saturday’s regular-season finales.
Sixth-ranked BYU got an important MPSF victory over No. 8 Stanford and No. 3 Penn State remained dominant in the EIVA with a sweep of No. 14 Charleston.
Saturday’s schedule is full in NCAA Division I-I men’s volleyball, including the start of the MIVA Tournament.
BIG WEST: Hawai’i (25-2, 8-1) had to battle to a 28-26, 25-17, 19-25, 25-14 home victory over UC San Diego (8-15, 2-7). The same teams play in Honolulu again Saturday.
Dimitrios Mouchlias led the Rainbow Warriors with 13 kills, two assists, two blocks and two digs. Chaz Galloway had 11 kills, hit .391, and had three blocks and eight digs. UCSD’s Ryan Ka had 20 kills, three assists, eight digs and three blocks, one solo. The Tritons, who hit .256, had three aces and 19 serving errors …
Long Beach State (19-3, 8-1) swept visiting No. 5 UC Irvine (16-9, 6-3), who in turn will play host to the Beach on Saturday night. Sotiris Siapanis led a balanced attack with 12 kills in the 25-18, 25-19, 25-22 victory. He had an assist, two aces and three blocks, one solo. UCI struggled to a .118 hitting percentage and had three aces and 16 errors. Hilir Henno had 11 kills …
UC Santa Barbara (6-16, 2-7) swept at No. 15 CSUN (12-14, 1-8) as Ryan Wilcox had 18 kills and hit .556. Those teams play again at UCSB.
MPSF: BYU (17-6, 7-4) beat visiting Stanford (13-11, 6-5) to improve to 13-0 at home this season. The Cougars won 25-20, 19-25, 25-21, 26-24 despite hitting .219. Kupono Browne led with 18 kills against his old team. Kevin Lamp had 13 for Stanford.
Saturday, the regular season concludes with Stanford back at BYU, No. 2 UCLA home for No. 8 Pepperdine, and Concordia Irvine at USC in a battle to escape last place.
EIVA: Penn State (23-3, 9-0) swept visiting Charleston (22-2, 5-4) and they play again Saturday in State College. Cal Fisher and Michal Kowal had 11 kills each in the 25-23, 25-19, 25-13 victory. Kowal had one error in 16 attacks, two aces, a solo block and three digs …
George Mason (11-14, 3-6) swept at Harvard (9-14, 2-7) as Liam French had 17 kills and hit .481. Mason is back at Harvard Saturday … Princeton (13-11, 7-3) ended its regular season by beating visiting NJIT (8-17, 2-8) in four.
MIVA: Three teams…
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