The top five teams in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball — Hawai’i, UCLA, Penn State, Long Beach State and Grand Canyon all won Friday night and only unbeaten GCU lost a set.
Saturday’s schedule includes BYU back at UCLA and Pepperdine at Stanford in the MPSF, and a key MPSF match when Ohio State goes to Loyola.
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Top-ranked Hawai’i of the Big West improved to 11-0 and won its 20th in a row with its 25-20, 25-19, 25-19 sweep of visiting Concordia Irvine (4-7) of the MPSF. Spyris Chakas had 14 kills and hit .462, Chaz Galloway had 11 kills and Dimitrios Mouchlias had 10 kills and hit .471 …
No. 2 UCLA (12-1) opened MPSF play with a over visiting No. 8 BYU (8-3) 25-20, 25-22, 25-18. Ethan Champlin and Ido David had 11 kills each and Alex Knight 10 …
Third-ranked Penn State (10-1) opened EIVA play with a 25-18, 25-23, 25-20 sweep of visiting Princeton (4-7). Toby Ezeonu had 11 kills, hit .529 and had two blocks …
No. 4 Long Beach State (7-2) of the Big West rolled to a 25-15, 25-19, 26-24 win over visiting NJIT (5-1) of the EIVA. The Beach hit .421 and got 11 kills each from Spencer Olivier and Sotiris Siapanis. Olivier hit .348 and had an assist, three blocks and six digs. Siapanis had one error in 19 swings, an assist, an ace, five blocks and seven digs. Simon Torwie had seven kills and eight blocks, one solo. NJIT’s Alessandro Negri had 17 kills, an ace and six digs …
No. 5 Grand Canyon is 13-0, 2-0 in the MPSF, after its 21-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-22 victory at USC (6-6, 0-2). The Lopes, who hit .061 in the first set, hit .365 in the last three sets. Jason Hickman had 14 kills and four blocks and Christian Janke added 13 kills, four blocks and six dig. Kevin Kobrine had 14 kills for USC. He hit .406 and had an assist, nine digs and five blocks, one solo …
Jaylen Jasper had 20 kills and hit .783 as No. 7 Pepperdine (9-4) won its MPSF opener at No. 9 Stanford (7-5). Jasper had only two errors in 23 attacks and added two assists, an ace, a block and four digs. Pepperdine hit .571 with 48 kills and eight errors in 70 attacks …
Also in the EIVA, No. 15 Charleston improved to 12-0 as it won its league opener with a sweep of visiting Harvard (4-5). Garret Schnitker led with 18…
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