Catching up on NCAA males and the Professional Volleyball Federation for the previous few days:
Grand Canyon, the nation’s solely unbeaten crew, is No. 1 within the AVCA males’s volleyball ballot for the primary time.
Belmont Abbey has a one-game lead over Erskine and North Greenville in Convention Carolinas.
And the Atlanta Vibe leads a pack of 4 atop the PVF.
Let’s begin with Thursday, which exhibits 5 Division I-II males’s matches, together with the battle of Los Angeles when No. 4 UCLA goes to No. 11 USC within the MPSF. UC Santa Barbara of the Large West, which has fallen out of the highest 20, goes to the MPSF’s Concordia Irvine.
There are two MIVA matches, with No. 14 Lewis at No. 7 Ohio State and No. 13 Loyola Chicago house for Purdue Fort Wayne. And within the NEC, No. 20 Daemen is at D’Youville.
There are two PVF matches with the Omaha Supernovas (5-3) on the Atlanta Vibe (4-2) and the Vegas Thrill (2-5) on the San Diego Mojo (1-3).
AVCA TOP 20, POW: GCU (13-0), coming back-to-back house victories over USC, moved up a spot into first and bought 13 of the 23 first-place votes. GCU had been No. 2 for the primary time, so that is its highest rating. Lengthy Seashore State (13-1) bought 10 of the first-place votes however dropped to No. 2. Hawai’i, UCLA and UC Irvine stayed 3-4-5.
Click on right here for the entire AVCA Nationwide Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot.
The AVCA nationwide participant of the week is Kory Grant of Mount Olive. The sophomore exterior averaged 4.2 kills per set and hit .565 in two Convention Carolinas wins final week and is the primary MO participant to win the respect since 2017.
NCAA MEN: In matches Tuesday, Belmont Abbey (10-2, 6-1) beat visiting North Greenville (6-5, 5-2) in 4 to interrupt a tie on the prime of Convention Carolinas and Erskine (9-5, 5-2) saved tempo because it swept at Emmanuel (5-12, 2-5). Concordia Irvine (6-5) of the MPSF beat visiting Charleston (8-7) of the EIVA in 4 behind 24 kills from Ties Cornelissen, who had 4 errors in 35 assaults to hit .571 and had two aces, a dig and two blocks.
In Wednesday motion, No. 18 UC San Diego of the Large West (7-8) beat Charleston (8-8) in 4, McKendree (8-6, 5-3) hit .402 and swept Lindenwood (5-9, 2-5) within the MIVA, and No. 10 Pepperdine (11-5) of the MPSF gained in 5 on the Large West’s No. 16 CSUN (8-7). Cole Ketrzyski had 13 kills and Cole Rasic 12 within the 25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 17-25, 15-12 victory.