Penn State not solely knocked off then-No. 1 and unbeaten Ohio State in Columbus final Saturday, the Nittany Lions did it once more with a reverse sweep at house Sunday.
There have been eight complete NCAA males’s Division I-II volleyball matches the previous three days together with a win for Hawai’i, which completed its mainland journey with a victory at Ball State.Â
The recaps and the AVCA ballot observe, however first a take a look at Wednesday’s eight-match schedule that features the primary MIVA opener when Lewis goes to Lindenwood.
There are a few MPSF-Large West battles when UCLA goes to UC Irvine and USC goes to UC San Diego.
The MPSF’s Grand Canyon is on the NEC’s Merrimack and the Large West’s UC Santa Barbara is on the EIVA’s Princeton.
The NEC has two house matches in opposition to ECC groups when LIU performs Dominican and Sacred Coronary heart faces St. Thomas Aquinas. Belmont Abbey of Convention Carolinas is house for the SIAC’s Benedict.
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AVCA TOP 20: Lengthy Seashore State jumped two spots and is the unanimous No. 1 on this week’s AVCA Nationwide Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot. Lengthy Seashore, 7-0, acquired all 23 first-place votes.
Grand Canyon (6-0) moved as much as three spots to No. 2, the very best rating in program historical past.
Hawai’i moved up one spot to No. 3, whereas Stanford (at 6-0 the one different unbeaten) moved up two notches to No. 4 and UCLA dropped three spots to No. 5.
Ohio State, after dropping twice to Penn State, fell from No. 1 to No. 6 and is adopted by UC Irving, Penn State, BYU and Pepperdine.
Charleston dropped out and impartial Lincoln Memorial is again in at No. 20.
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Additionally, the AVCA nationwide participant of the week is Lengthy Seashore State freshman Lazar Bouchkov, a center from Bulgaria who had 18 blocks in sweeps of Concordia Irvine and Pepperdine.
RECAPS: Penn State of the EIVA and Ohio State of the MIVA had been each 6-2 after the Nittany Lions’ 23-25, 22-25, 25-21, 25-18, 17-15 victory Sunday.
Michal Kowal led Penn State with 15 kills, hit .344, and had two assists, three aces, a block and 6 digs. Michael Valenzi had 14 kills — six within the final set with no errors in eight assaults — hit .393, and had two assists, three blocks and 6 digs. Toby Ezeonu, this week’s EIVA participant of the week, had 10 kills with one error in 18 assaults, two aces, three blocks and two digs. Owen Rose had 4 kills in 11 errorless swings and 6 blocks one solo. He additionally had no aces and 6 serving errors because the Nittany Lions hit .282 and had seven aces and 27 errors. Luke Snyder made essentially the most of his birthday, taking up at setter within the third set to complete with 23 assists, an ace, three blocks and three digs. Michael Schwob, the earlier setter, had a kill, 20 assists, a block and 4 digs. Ryan Merk had eight digs and 4 assists.
Ohio State, with out star outdoors Jacob Pasteur within the Buckeyes’ four-set loss to Penn State, returned and had a match-high 16 kills. However he hit .100 and had one ace and 10 errors to go together with three blocks and 6 digs. Shane Wetzel had 13 kills, hit .346 and had an ace, three blocks and 5 digs …Â
Hawai’i (6-1) of the Large West gained 25-23, 23-25, 25-21, 25-19 at Ball State (7-5) of the MIVA. Hawai’i, which beat Ball State for the fourth time in a row and gained its fifteenth consecutive highway match, hit .366 and had 9 aces and 11 errors. Spyros Chakas had 14 kills, three assists, two aces, 4 blocks and 5 digs. Alaka’i Todd had 12 kills, three aces, eight digs and three blocks, one solo. Guilherme Voss had 9 kills in 10 errorless assaults and 6 blocks, two solo. Ball State, which hit .333 and had 4 aces and 12 errors, acquired 16 kills every from Tinaishe Ndavazocheva and Braydon Savitski-Lynde. Will Patterson had six kills, an ace, two digs and 9 blocks …Â
Additionally Sunday, Charleston (5-1) of the EIVA swept at impartial Tusculum (1-6) by hitting .387. Garret Schnitker led with 18 kills, hitting .556 … D’Youville (4-0) of the NEC gained in 5 on the ECC’s St. Thomas Aquinas (0-6) as Shaun Vattakuzhiyll had 13 kills, three aces and two blocks … St. Francis (PA) improved to 3-4 by sweeping Queens (4-5) of the MIVA. SFU hit .415. Andrew Deardorff led with 10 kills, hitting .412 …
Monday, Emmanuel (1-4) of Convention Carolinas gained the one match of the day, beating the SIAC’s Edward Waters (1-2) in 4. Emmanuel’s Eli Zdonek had 14 kills, hitting .400 …
The MIVA’s Quincy (4-0) swept impartial Missouri S&T (3-3) on Tuesday as Raje Alleyne went off for 22 kills, hitting .447, to go together with two assists, an ace, 4 digs and three blocks, two solo … the ECC’s Dominican (2-2) swept DIII Yeshiva and Roosevelt (1-0) swept Concordia Chicago (3-3).
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