Hawai’i, UCLA, Penn St., Long Beach, UC Irvine win in NCAA men’s volleyball

There were no upsets Friday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball on Friday. For that matter, almost every ranked team swept.

Those winners included No. 1 Hawai’i, No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Long Beach State and No. 5 UC Irvine.

Saturday’s schedule shows three matches in the Big West, as Hawai’i is back at UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State is home for UC San Diego and UCI goes to No. 15 CSUN.

In the MPSF, UCLA is back at Grand Canyon, which is tied for No. 5 in the AVCA Poll with UCI, No. 9 Stanford is home for Concordia Irvine, and No. 8 Pepperdine steps out of league play to entertain Cal Lutheran.

In the EIVA, Penn State goes to Harvard, No. 14 Charleston is home for NJIT and George Mason is at Princeton.

The four MIVA matches have No. 10 Loyola Chicago home for Quincy, No. 12 Ball State at Lewis, No. 13 Ohio State at McKendree and Lindenwood at Purdue Fort Wayne.

Conference Carolinas also has four matches, including the league leaders facing off with North Greenville, holding a one-game lead in the standings, home for Erskine. Also Barton is at Lees-McRae, Mount Olive goes to King, and Belmont Abbey is at Emmanuel. 

NEC action shows Daemen at St. Francis Brooklyn, Fairleigh Dickinson at Sacred Heart, Saint Francis (PA) at Merrimack and D’Youville at LIU.

The SIAC is idle, but independent Tusculum plays Alderson Broaddus and Lincoln Memorial.

If a match is being shown we have the viewing link in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Listings.

Hawai’i (21-2, 4-1 Big West) hit .420 en route to its 25-22, 25-21, 29-27 win at UCSB (5-14, 1-5). Spyros Chakas had 13 kills and hit .500 to go with an assist, two aces, seven digs and three blocks, one solo. Guilherem Voss had nine kills with one error in 11 swings and four blocks, and Chaz Galloway and Dimitrios Mouchlias, who had 10 digs, had eight kills each. Jakob Thelle had five kills in six errorless tries, 35 assists, an ace and four digs. UCSB got 16 kills from Nick Amoruo and 10 from Dayne Chalmers, who had two aces, two blocks and 10 digs … 

Also in the Big West, Long Beach State (15-3, 4-1) won 25-22, 25-13, 25-16 at UC San Diego (7-13, 1-5). Spencer Olivier led a balanced attack with seven and he added two blocks and six digs. Island Doty had three kills in four errorless tries, 17 assists, an ace, four blocks and five digs, and Simon Torwie had two kills and 10 blocks, one…