What a Thursday on the Outrigger Invitational in Hawai’i.
And what a Friday on faucet in NCAA Division I-II males’s volleyball.
Prime-ranked Grand Canyon of the MPSF, the final unbeaten staff, was knocked off by No. 5 UC Irvine of the Massive West.
Then third-ranked Hawai’i of the Massive West swept visiting No. 14 Lewis of the MIVA, establishing Friday’s No. 1 vs. No. 3 faceoff between two groups that now have one loss every. Earlier, UCI and Lewis play one another within the Stan Sheriff Heart.
Second-ranked Lengthy Seashore State opens Massive West play when No. 19 UC Santa Barbara visits the Pyramid.
Fourth-ranked UCLA of the MPSF performs host to No. 9 Penn State of the EIVA.
Eighth-ranked Ohio State of the MIVA is at No. 12 USC of the MPSF.
Sixth-ranked BYU is at No. 7 Stanford for an enormous MPSF match.
No. 10 Pepperdine of the MPSF continues its Convention Carolinas swing when the Waves head to Tigerville, South Carolina, to play at North Greenville. Additionally, the MPSF’s Concordia Irvine is residence for St. Xavier of Illinois. SXU is coming off losses at Vanguard and The Masters on its California journey.
The MIVA has two different non-conference matches when No. 20 McKendree performs Erskine of Convention Carolinas and Quincy faces unbiased Maryville.
There are two EIVA matches as NJIT is at No. 17 George Mason and Harvard goes 28 miles north in Massachusetts to the NEC’s Merrimack. Additionally within the NEC, LIU performs host to Barton of Convention Carolinas and Daemen is residence for unbiased Tusculum.
Lees-McRae of Convention Carolinas performs Campbellsville and Emmanuel of Convention Carolinas performs Talladega.
There are 4 SIAC matches. Winelsss Benedict (0-10) performs at Central State (3-17) — which is coming off back-to-back victories over Morehouse — twice, Edward Waters is at Kentucky State and winless Morehouse (0-10) is at Fort Valley State.
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Thursday’s motion consists of these victories by UCI and Hawai’i, and in addition Pepperdine at Belmont Abbey.
UCI (13-4) beat Grand Canyon (15-1) to make sure that no staff will go unbeaten this season. UCI, which gained its seventh match in a row, obtained a career-high-tying 29 kills from Hilir Henno within the 25-21, 19-25, 24-26, 29-27, 15-6 victory. Henno had three errors in 64 assaults to hit .406 and added an help, an ace, a block and eight digs. William D’Arcy had 19 kills with two errors in 31 swings to hit .548 and had an ace, two blocks and 11 digs. Maxim Grigoriev had 12 kills, hit .474, and had 4 assists, three aces, 5 blocks — two solo — and three digs. Brett Sheward had a kill, 58 assists, 10 digs and three blocks. Akhil Tangutur had 10 digs, 5 kills, two assists, and three blocks, and Cole Energy had 15 digs and 4 assists. UCI hit .370 and had 5 aces and 15 servring errors.
GCU’s Jackson Hickman had 23 kills with no errors in 38 assaults to hit .604 and had three blocks and 15 digs. Cameron Thorne had 14 kills, hit .550, and had two digs and 7 blocks, one solo. Camden Gianni had 12 kills however 11 errors, an help, 4 aces, six blocks and 5 digs. Nicholas Slith had 58 assists, a block and 10 digs. His staff his .283 and had eight aces and 12 errors …
Hawai’i (15-1) cruised to a 25-9, 25-18, 25-21 sweep of visiting Lewis (10-9). The Rainbow Warriors, who’ve gained 14 in a row, hit .458 and had 10 aces and 11 errors. Spryos Chakas led with 15 kills and hit .737 after having one error in 19 assaults to go along with two aces, two blocks and two digs. Alaka’i Todd had eight kills with one error in 12 assaults, two aces, a block and 5 digs, and Guilherme Voss had seven kills, hit .556, and had two aces, two digs and two blocks, one solo. Lewis, which hit .206 and had one ace and 16 errors, obtained 9 kills from Max Roquet …
Pepperine (13-5) opened its Convention Carolinas journey with a 25-16, 25-17, 25-20 win at Belmont Abbey (11-3). Cole Ketrzynski led with 17 kills as he hit .375 and had an ace, two blocks and 5 digs. Ryan Barnett had 10 kills, hit .308, and had two aces, two blocks and 7 digs, and Akin Akinwumi had seven kills, two assists, three aces, two blocks and 7 digs.The Waves hit .333 and had six aces and 14 errors. Belmont Abbey hit .138 and had one ace and 13 errors. Zach Puentes had eight kills …
Lindenwood (8-9) of the MIVA gained in 4 at Erskine (9-7) of Convention Carolinas behind 16 kills from Clay Wieter. Wieter hit .542 and added an help, an ace, 5 digs and two blocks … Fort Valley State (7-5) of the SIAC swept visiting Emmanuel (5-14) of Convention Carolinas. Chey Cooper had 11 kills and Isaiah Fedd and Jaxon Hicks 9 every …
Wednesday, slumping USC (11-8) beat visiting Penn State (12-5) 25-22, 25-19, 15-25, 25-23 as Jack Deuchar had 14 kills, Dillon Klein 13 and Riley Haine 11. Haine hit .429 and had three blocks and 4 digs, but in addition no aces and 5 serving errors. The Trojans, who hit .238, had six aces — three by Caleb Blanchette — and 20 errors. USC snapped a four-match skid, dropping twice to then No. 2 GCU after which twice to No. 4 UCLA. Penn State’s John Kerr had 21 of his staff’s 39 kills, hit .405 and had an ace, two blocks and 4 digs. Penn State hit .250 and had seven aces — 4 by Toby Ezeonu — and 20 errors …
Additionally Wednesday, Saint Francis (PA) of the NEC (11-6) gained in 4 at Fort Valley State (6-5) by hitting .435. Michael Mosbacher led with 22 kills, hitting .526, to go along with two aces, 4 digs and a block … McKendree (10-6) swept at Missouri S&T (8-10) because it hit .347 and 6 gamers had six or extra kills … No. 18 UC San Diego (8-10) hit .469 and swept St. Katherine.