A Huge West title and prime seeding within the NCAA match are on the road when top-ranked Lengthy Seaside State and No. 4 UC Irvine play again to again matches Friday and Saturday. The primary match is at UCI after which Saturday they head to Lengthy Seaside’s Pyramid. Lengthy Seaside (22-1, 6-0) maintain a two-game lead within the loss column over the Anteaters (17-8, 6-2), who need to win each matches to drive a tie.
It’s simply one among many on a busy slate in NCAA Division I-II males’s volleyball because the common season winds down.
Within the Professional Volleyball Federation, the Grand Rapids Rise swept the Orlando Valkyries on Thursday. Friday, the San Diego Mojo go to the Columbus Fury.
There was an NCAA Divisioni I girls’s teaching rent and the USA males took a troublesome loss on the World ParaVolley Sitting Olympics qualifier.
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Lees-McRae gained! Extra on that follows.
Additionally within the Huge West, fifth-ranked Hawai’i performs at UC San Diego and No. 14 CSUN goes to UC Santa Barbara.
Penn State can win the EIVA at house when the No 8 Nittany Lions (19-6, 8-0) play again to again matches in opposition to No. 16 and second-place George Mason (17-7, 6-2). Penn State has gained six in a row and George Mason 11. Additionally within the EIVA, No 17 Princeton is house for Charleston and NJIT is at Harvard.
The MPSF has two matches. Third-ranked Grand Canyon, which swept No. 9 Pepperdine on Thursday, is house for the Waves once more. Seventh-ranked Stanford is house for No. 13 USC.
The Unbiased Volleyball Affiliation (IVA) match begins at St. Thomas in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Lincoln Memorial, going for its fifth IVA crown in a row, is the highest seed and performs No. 4 Tusculum after second-seeded Maryville performs the house group.
The three SIAC matches present Fort Valley State at Edward Waters, Morehouse at Benedict and Kentucky State at Central State.
Within the NEC, FDU and Sacred Coronary heart are tied atop the league at 11-3, a sport up on Saint Francis (PA). FDU performs at SFU, whereas Sacred Coronary heart goes to D’Youville. Merrimack is at Daemen.
The MIVA match begins Saturday and the Convention Carolinas match begins Tuesday.
THURSDAY: No. 2 UCLA (21-4, 11-1) hit .515 and swept at Concordia Irvine ( 6-17, 0-11) to not solely preserve its 1.5-game lead over GCU, however clinch the convention regular-season title. UCLA, which has gained 10 in a row, obtained 12 kills from Ethan Champlin, who had two errors in 22 assaults, an ace, an help, a block and 5 digs within the 25-12, 25-17, 25-15 blasting. Cooper Robinson had 10 kills with one error in 14 assaults and Ido David had 9 kills with one error in 14 swings. CUI, which misplaced its twelfth in a row, obtained kills from 11 gamers, six by Christian Galoppo …
GCU (21-4, 9-2) beat visiting Pepperdine (17-9, 5-6) for its 14th sweep of the season. Camden Gianni had 11 kills in 16 errorless assaults to guide a balanced assault within the 25-19, 25-16, 25-17 victory. Gianni, who hit .688, added a block and two digs. Jackson Hickman had 10 kills, an ace, a block and a dig. Pepperdine hit .118 and obtained eight kills apiece from Alexander Mrkalj and Ryan Barnett …
Convention Carolinas completed its common season. Belmont Abbey, which had already clinched the title, gained by two video games over North Greenville. BA beat visiting Erskine in 4 as Zach Puentes had 19 kills and hit .531 to go together with an help, 5 digs and two blocks, one solo. NG needed to go 5 to win at Emmanuel as Logan Keothavy had 23 kills and hit .425 and Diego Rosich had 21 kills and hit .545 … Mount Olive swept Barton and …
Lees-McRae ended its season on not only a excessive notice however a sweep of visiting King. Lees-McRae, which had misplaced 20 in a row, completed its season 2-26, 1-13 in Convention Carolinas.
King is 6-20, 4-10. Nicholas Brewster and Sebastian Heer had eight kills every for Lees-McRaw, M.J. Doyle had seven and Austin Beaird six. Erel Bardah had 5 kills in 10 errorless assaults.
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Grand Rapids (7-8) builit its result in two video games within the loss column over Orlando (7-10) with a 25-23, 25-21, 25-22 victory.
Emiliya Dimitrova led the Rise with 13 kills and had 18 digs and two block assists. Erika Pritchard had 10 kills, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Ashley Evans had 36 assists, 12 digs, six block assists and three kills.
Orlando’s Adora Anae led the Valkyries with 9 kills, an ace, 21 digs and 7 blocks, two solo. Her teammates mixed for 28 kills, eight by Shainah Joseph and 7 by Carly Skjodt.
When San Diego (5-8) goes to Columbus (5-9), the Fury will likely be with out center Asjia O’Neal. The Texas NCAA champion has left for the USA fitness center in Anaheim to coach with the nationwide group within the hopes of creating each the Volleyball Nations League and Olympic rosters. O’Neal performed in 9 matches for the Fury, averaging 2.65 kills and hitting .350.
CSUN tabs Montoya
CSUN employed Aquiles Montoya as its head coach. The college in Northridge, California, is coming a 6-23 season, 4-14 within the Huge West. CSUN was 9-23, 4-16, the 12 months earlier than. Montoya replaces longtime coach John Value, who retired in December.
Montoya has been an assistant at Portland State the previous 4 seasons. CSUN has been to the NCAA Event 5 occasions, the final in 2013.
Sitting silver for USA males
The USA males gained silver this week within the 2024 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball ultimate qualifier in Dali, China, however the loss to Ukraine means they won’t make the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games.
The USA, which completed 6-2, misplaced within the ultimate 25-17, 32-30, 25-19. Exterior hitter Zach Upp led the People with 14 kills and two aces. Center blocker Roderick Inexperienced had 5 kills, three blocks and an ace. Reverse Eric Duda had seven kills and a block and outdoors James Caught had six kills.
Slovenia beat Iran 25-13, 11-25, 25-22, 23-25, 15-13 within the girls’s ultimate.
