Fourth-ranked UCLA rewarded previous greats amongst a crowd of almost 5,000 at venerable Pauley Pavilion with a sweep of its weekend sequence with No. 11 USC, and Thirteenth-ranked Loyola Chicago bolstered its relevance within the MIVA race by upsetting No. 7 Ohio State to focus on NCAA males’s Division I-II volleyball on Saturday.
Within the Skilled Volleyball Federation, a five-point run by serving specialist Kacie Evans was instrumental in swinging the momentum throughout a extremely aggressive three-set street victory by the Atlanta Vibe over the San Diego Mojo. Recaps will comply with this have a look at Sunday’s mild indoor schedule.
The headliner among the many collegiate males is No. 8 Stanford (8-7, 1-2 MPSF) at No. 1 Grand Canyon (14-0, 5-0) within the second installment of a weekend sequence. No. 5 UC Irvine (11-4, 1-0) welcomes No. 18 UC San Diego (7-9, 1-1) in a Huge West tussle. The NEC’s Sacred Coronary heart (6-10) visits No. 3 Hawaii (13-1) of the Huge West. And within the MIVA, league chief Ball State (13-7, 6-1, ranked twelfth, performs host to Queen’s (6-12, 2-7).
The Columbus Fury (3-2) will carry a three-match successful streak into its PVF encounter with the host Orlando Valkyries (4-4). Outdoors hitter Megan Courtney Lush, who sat out the Fury’s street victory on Monday over the Vegas Thrill, is listed among the many possible starters.
The PVF additionally has two matches on Monday: The Vibe go to the Vegas Thrill (3-5) and the Mojo play host to the Grand Rapids Rise (3-3).
NCAA males
With 4,727 in attendance at historic Pauley – together with members of the Bruins’ NCAA championship groups of 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984 – UCLA (14-4, 5-1) took its eighth consecutive victory over USC (10-8, 2-4) 26-24, 23-25, 25-17, 25-21. After a sweep on the Trojans’ Galen Heart on Thursday night time, the Bruins happy their partisan Saturday throng by recording a 58-39 benefit in kills, outdigging USC 30-19 and outhitting their crosstown rival .382-.202. All-American center blocker Merrick McHenry dialed up three aces and was a flawless 7-for-7 on assaults in his fifteenth consecutive match hitting higher than .400.
UCLA’s Zach Rama ripped 16 kills with 4 errors on 25 swings (.480) and Grant Sloane chipped in 13 kills and two aces. Riley Haine was the one Trojan in double-figure kills with 11.
Loyola Chicago obtained back-to-back kills from freshman exterior hitter Daniel Fabikovic to place the ending touches on a hard-fought 25-22, 20-25, 30-28, 15-25, 15-12 victory over error-prone Ohio State earlier than 1,591 in Columbus.
In successful their third in a row, the Ramblers improved to 11-8 general and 6-3 within the MIVA, good for third place within the standings. Loyola swept the regular-season sequence with the Buckeyes after additionally prevailing in 5 units on its dwelling court docket.
Fabikovic rang up 15 kills in opposition to 4 errors on 31 assaults (hitting .355), and added an ace, a solo block and 5 block assists. Pin mate Parker Van Buren cracked at a .405 clip (19 kills with 4 errors on 35 swings).
Redshirt junior setter Dan Mangun, a preseason All-American, began for simply the fourth time. Mangun quarterbacked an assault that hit .339 general, and .471 within the tiebreaker, and he introduced up a team-high 9 digs.
“We wish to hold our hats on being a gritty workforce, and I felt like we had been simply gritty tonight,” Ramblers coach John Hawks advised the media. “We had been robust and got here up huge in huge moments. I’m simply tremendous proud that it has began to turn into our id.” Ohio State (14-4, 8-2) had 21 extra kills (75 to 54) than Loyola, however shot itself within the foot with 23 attacking errors and 24 miscues from the service line (in opposition to 10 aces). Jacob Pasteur drilled 19 kills and 6 aces, including 9 digs. Shane Wetzel had 24 kills and hit .391.
Elsewhere within the MIVA No. 14 Lewis (10-8, 4-4) feasted on the pins with Daniel Haber (19 kills, .567 hitting) and Max Roquet (18 kills) throughout a 25-15, 25-21, 19-25, 25-20 overcome visiting Purdue Fort Wayne (9-9, 3-6), which hit .179. … Quincy (5-8) of the MIVA dropped a 25-15, 27-25, 25-23 determination on its dwelling court docket to fast-rising unbiased Lincoln Memorial (11-4). The Nineteenth-ranked Railsplitters loved a balanced assault led by Griffin Wheatley (9 kills), Luigi Pacini (eight) and Matthew Gentry (eight).
No. 10 Pepperdine (12-5, 2-3) dodged a five-set bullet on the street within the MPSF, pulling out a 20-25, 25-22, 20-25, 25-20, 15-12 victory over last-place Concordia-Irvine (6-7, 0-3). The difficulty wasn’t settled till the Waves hit .474 within the tiebreaker. Pepperdine obtained 20 kills on .405 hitting, an ace, 14 digs and 4 block assists from 6-foot-7 UCLA switch Cole Ketrzynski. Gage Doble’s 16 kills, two aces, and 9 digs helped the Golden Eagles lengthen the match. … UC Santa Barbara (7-10) of the Huge West threw a .070 hitting blanket (26 kills in opposition to 21 errors) over visiting Charleston (8-10) of the EIVA in a 25-20, 25-21, 25-19 triumph. Geste Bianchi led the Gauchos with 11 kills and 4 aces.
In Convention Carolinas motion, Mount Olive (12-3, 6-2) prevailed in 4 over visiting King (2-14, 2-6) regardless of robust sledding within the final two units, dropping the third 28-26 earlier than successful the fourth 25-23. Hayden Frear paced the victorious Trojans with 17 kills, two fewer than the whole recorded by the Twister’s one-man gang, AJ Drooker, who hit
.471 and rang up six aces. … Barton (9-5, 4-4) heaped extra distress on Lees-McRae (1-16, 0-8), outscoring the guests 75-45 over three units.
Harvard (8-5) of the EIVA utilized a balanced offense to notch a four-set street victory over the NEC’s D’Youville (6-6) … Host George Mason (7-7) of the EIVA weathered a third-set velocity bump to high the NEC’s Saint Francis (9-6) in 4. … Visiting Lengthy Island U. (5-11, 2-3 NEC) held Fairleigh Dickinson (6-8, 0-3) to .126 hitting whereas successful in 4.
In an ECC match, visiting Dominican wanted 23 kills from Phineas Wiley to carry off American Worldwide in 5 (15-11 within the tiebreaker). … Logan Whitaker’s 23 kills helped host Merrimack of the NEC journey the ECC’s St. Thomas Aquinas in 5 units (15-11 within the fifth). … Jaxson Hicks notched 9 kills on .615 effectivity as host Fort
Valley State swept Kentucky State within the SIAC. … NAIA member Reinhardt improved to 13-1 with home-court sweeps of Talladega and the SIAC’s Edward Waters. … Visiting Maryville topped fellow unbiased Tusculum in three. … Unbiased Thomas Moore concluded a street sweep of Roberts Wesleyan of the ECC with a 34-32 third set.
Professional Volleyball Federation
When true rookie Kacie Evans (Georgia) subbed in to serve through the second set, the Atlanta Vibe (5-3) trailed the San Diego Mojo (1-5) 19-16. An ace and 4 extra “actual factors” later, the Vibe had turned the tables.
With exterior hitter Leah Edmond and reverse Anna Lazareva terminating with lethal effectivity, the guests despatched a crowd of three,071 at Viejas Area dwelling after simply 1 hour, 48 minutes with a 26-24, 25-20, 25-3 sweep.
The charismatic Edmond cranked 22 kills (a mean of seven.3 per set) in opposition to 5 errors on 41 assaults (.414 effectivity), and had an ace and 12 digs. Russian veteran Lazareva, seemingly getting extra snug with every PVF match, racked up 20 kills with six errors on 44 swings (.318), including an ace and two solo blocks.
No different hitter for the Vibe had greater than 5 kills (OH Allie Linnehan was blanked in 18 makes an attempt with 4 errors), nevertheless it hardly mattered. Libero Morgan Hentz amassed 14 digs and 5 assists.
True rookie Temi Thomas-Ailara (final of Wisconsin) led the Mojo with 9 kills however hit .129 on 31 swings. Center blocker Ronika Stone posted eight kills on 17 errorless swings and fellow center Hannah Tapp had 5 point-scoring rejections.