Ball State swept Quincy on Thursday evening and assured the No. 11 Cardinals at the least a share of their third MIVA males’s volleyball regular-season title in a row.
Within the Professional Volleyball Federation, the Omaha Supernova pulled a bit nearer to first place with a four-set victory over the Columbus Fury.
Recaps and high performances observe, however first Friday’s schedule, which incorporates some top-notch males’s matches with high seeding in convention tournaments at stake.
Prime-ranked Lengthy Seaside State performs host to CSUN within the Huge West, the place No. 4 Hawai’i is at No. 5 UC Irvine and No. 19 UC San Diego is at UC Santa Barbara. Lengthy Seaside is 6-0 and holds a one-game lead on UCI (5-1). Hawai’i is 3-3.
Within the MPSF, No. 2 UCLA is dwelling for No. 3 Grand Canyon, No. 6 BYU is at USC, No. 7 Stanford is at Concordia Irvine and No. 8 Pepperdine steps out the league to play The Grasp’s. Grand Canyon leads the convention at 8-0, a recreation up on UCLA (7-1). BYU is third at 6-4.
The three EIVA matches present No. 9 Penn State at Charleston, No. 17 Princeton dwelling for NJIT and No. 16 George Mason entertaining Harvard.
The lone match involving a MIVA staff has Ohio State enjoying impartial Maryville.
In Convention Carolinas, Mount Olive goes to Emmanuel and Barton is at Erskine.
The NEC has three matches, LIU at Sacred Coronary heart, Saint Francis (PA) at D’Youville and FDU at Merrimack.
Fort Valley State performs an SIAC match at Kentucky State, whereas the SIAC’s Edward Waters performs Webber Worldwide.
The one ECC match has American Worldwide at Dominican.
The Professional Volleyball Federation is off till Orlando performs at Grand Rapids on Saturday and we have now some information about that.
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NCAA males
Ball State improved to 19-9 total, 12-3 within the MIVA, with a 25-23, 25-17, 25-15 victory over visiting Quincy (5-18, 1-14) to clinch a tie of the regular-season title. The Cardinals can wrap it up with a victory Saturday when McKendree visits and/or a loss by Loyola Chicago (17-9, 11-4) at Lewis. 9 Cardinals had kills as Ball State hit .411. Tinaishe Ndavazocheva led with 9 kills and hit .615 after having one error in 13 assaults. He had two aces, two digs and two blocks, one solo. Rodney Wallace had 4 kills in 5 errorless swings and three blocks. Quincy, which has misplaced 17 in a row, received 18 kills from Raje Alleyne, who hit .433 and had an ace, a block and two digs …
Tenth-ranked Ohio State (18-8, 11-5) completed its MIVA schedule with a 18-25, 20-25, 28-26, 25-18, 15-11 victory over visiting No. 18 McKendree (14-10, 8-7). Jacob Pasteur led the Buckeyes with 15 kills, two assists, two aces, 9 digs and 7 blocks, two solo. Shane Wetzel had 11 kills. McKendree’s Bryce Wetjen had 21 kills and Kevin Schuele 17 …
Purdue Fort Wayne (13-11, 7-8), again within the AVCA Ballot this week at No. 20, dealt a 2-hour, 50-minute five-set loss to No. 14 Lewis (15-13, 8-7), profitable a wild one 25-19, 25-21, 30-32, 19-25, 16-14. Mark Frazier tied his PFW career-high with 24 kills, hitting .354 to go along with the 4 assists, an ace, a block and 9 digs. Jon Diedrich had 23 kills, two assists, two aces, 9 digs and 6 blocks, onee solo. Casey Lyons had 5 kills with no errors in 10 assaults, an ace, a dig and 6 blocks. The Mastodons, who hit .309 and setter Andrej Polomac had 56 assists, two kills in three errorless tries, three aces, two blocks and 9 digs. Max Roquet led 4 Lewis gamers with 10 or extra kills with 20 as he hit .326 and had a block and 10 digs. Syver Droslum had 16 kills, an help, a block and 11 digs. Daniel Haber had 12 kills, 5 digs and 7 blocks and Shawn Baggs had 10 kills with one error in 14 swings to go along with an ace, 4 digs and 9 blocks …
Additionally within the MIVA, Lindenwood (12-11, 8-7) swept at Queens (9-18. 2-13) as AJ Lewis had 15 kills and Clay Wieter 10 …
In non-conference matches, Daeman (15-6) of the NEC swept on the ECC’s Roberts Wesleyan (7-14) as eight gamers had kills, seven by Cameron Milligan … impartial Maryville (21-5) gained in 5 on the SIAC’s Central State (6-25) as Makai Scott led a balanced assault with 13 kills, hitting .400, to go along with 4 assists, 9 digs and a block.
Professional Volleyball Federation
BETTY LEADS OMAHA: Bethania De La Cruz went off for 26 kills for the second straight match because the Omaha Supernova defeated the visiting Columbus Fury 25-20, 25-22, 21-25, 25-22.
Omaha improved to 11-5 and iis one recreation again of first-place Atlanta (12-4). Grand Rapids is third at 6-7, adopted intently by Orlando (6-8) and Columbus, which dropped to 5-8 with its third loss in a row.
San Diego is 4-7 and Vegas is 5-10.
De La Cruz had two errors in 41 assaults because the Dominican Olympian hit .585 to go along with 14 digs and a block help. Nia Reed had 16 kills, an help, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Brooke Nuneviller had 14 kills, 16 digs and three blocks, two solo. Natalia Valentin-Anderson had 57 assists, an ace, 4 digs, two kills and two blocks, one solo.
The Fury received 17 kills apiece from Reagan Cooper and Megan Courtney Lush, who had 13 digs and two block assists. Cooper had three digs and a block help.
SUNDERLAND, MCPEAK ON BOARD: The Professional Volleyball Federation employed a big-time asserting crew for its matches that might be proven on the CBS Sports activities Community. VolleyballMag’s Larry Hamel reporting:
The PVF and TV associate CBS Sports activities Community hit the jackpot with Paul Sunderland and Holly McPeak as announcers for the league’s upcoming cable matches. The veteran Sunderland is the gold normal of volleyball play-by-play voices. McPeak has accomplished stellar work as an analyst of faculty indoor and seaside volleyball.
Having “Sundy” and Holly on the decision for the PVF’s national-TV choices on CBSSN brings instantaneous credibility and confirmed professionalism to the telecasts. Sunderland will once more name the lads’s and ladies’s indoor Olympics this summer time with associate Kevin Barnett and McPeak has been an ESPN/ABC analyst for the NCAA girls’s nationwide semifinals and last.
The preliminary PVF match on the third-tier cable channel airs Saturday evening (7 p.m. Japanese) when the Orlando Valkyries performs on the Grand Rapids Rise. It faces stiff competitors from the NCAA males’s basketball Ultimate 4, however the sledding will get simpler for the seven regular-season national-TV matches to observe.
The Professional Volleyball Federation YouTube channel has been the only real supply of streaming matches throughout the inaugural 2024 season and the Valkyries-Rise on Saturday evening shouldn’t be listed amongst its choices, so linear cable CBSSN seems to have exclusivity for its televised matches.