NCAA Males
April 14, 2024
Prime-ranked Lengthy Seaside State was having none of it. A day after getting swept at No. 4 UC Irvine, the Seaside swept the visiting Anteaters on Saturday to win the Large West regular-season title.
All 4 greater seeds — Ball State, Loyola Chicago, Ohio State and Lindenwood received their MIVA quarterfinal matches.
Eighth-ranked Penn State completed the EIVA common season 10-0 with one other win over George Mason, No. 2 UCLA swept Concordia Irvine for its eleventh win in a row, Saint Francis (PA) beat FDU and completed the NEC regular-season 12-0, and Lincoln Memorial received the Unbiased Volleyball Affiliation title for the sixth 12 months in a row.
The NCAA Division I-II males’s volleyball common season concludes Sunday when the one males’s match is within the SIAC, the place Fort Valley State, which has already clinched the league’s regular-season title, goes to Benedict.
Large West
The Large West Males’s Volleyball Championship begins Thursday at Hawai’i when fourth-seeded UC San Diego (12-14, 4-6) performs fifth-seeded CSUN (12-15, 3-7) and third-seeded Hawai’i (22-6, 5-5) performs sixth-seeded UC Santa Barbara (9-17, 2-8). It’s a uncommon incidence for Hawai’i to not be seeded first or second nevertheless it actually ensures a giant Thursday crowd within the Stan Sheriff Middle.
Prime-seeded Lengthy Seaside State (23-2, 9-1) awaits the UCSD-CSUN winner on Friday, whereas UCI (18-9, 7-3) will get the Hawai’i-UCSB winner. The championship match is Saturday.
A day after getting swept at UCI, Lengthy Seaside bounced again with a 27-25, 25-21, 25-17 dwelling victory because the Seaside hit .431. Sotiris Siapanis had 13 kills, hitting .409, and had three blocks and 4 digs. Skyler Varga had 9 kills with one error in 17 assaults, an help, three aces and 4 digs. Clarke Godbold had seven kills, an ace, two blocks and two digs. DiAeris McRaven had 5 kills in as many swings and two blocks, and Simon Torwie had 4 kills in eight errorless assaults and 5 blocks. Aidan Knipe had a kill in two errorless tries, 36 assists, two blocks and 5 digs. Lengthy Seaside had seven aces and 11 serving errors.
Hilir Henno led the Anteaters with 13 kills, a block and 4 digs as UCI hit .359 and had two aces and 18 serving errors. Henno had no aces and 6 errors. Nolan Flexen added 9 kills, hit .400 and had a block and a dig …
Hawai’i misplaced at UC San Diego 27-25, 25-21, 25-20. UCSD bought 14 kills from Sebastian Lara and 13 from Anthony Cherfan. Lara hit .478, whereas Cheran hit .310 and had two aces, 4 blocks and two digs. The Tritons hit .352 and had 9 aces — 4 by Jim Garrison — and 11 errors. Hawai’i, which hit .337 and had 4 aces and 11 errors, bought 12 kills from Keoni Thiim, who hit .455 and had two assists, three aces, two blocks and 5 digs …
CSUN beat visiting UCSB 23-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-22 as Kyle Hobus had 18 kills, an help, 4 aces, three blocks and two digs. Jalen Phillips had 14 kills, hit .391, and had an help, an ace, two blocks and two digs. Griffin Walters had 9 kills with one error in 15 swings, two assists, an ace, two blocks and 4 digs. Donovan Constable had 5 of CSUN’s 12 aces to go along with a kill, 38 assists, a block and 5 digs. Ben Coordt had 17 kills and hit .500 for UCSB to go along with 5 blocks, one solo. Geste Bianchi had 15 kills and three aces.
MIVA
The semifinals at Ball State are set. Prime-seeded Ball State (21-9) performs host to No. 4 Lindenwood (15-11) on Thursday and second-seeded Loyola Chicago (19-9) performs No. 3 Ohio State (20-8).
Ball State swept Queens, which ended its first MIVA season 9-21, 25-22, 25-18, 25-18. The Cardinals bought 11 kills from Trevor Phillips, who had one error in 16 assaults to hit .625 to go along with a block and 7 digs. Tinaishe Ndavazocheva had 10 kills, hit .364, and had three of his staff’s six aces, a dig and 4 blocks, one solo. Queens bought 12 kills from Jack Brinkman, who hit .324 and had an ace, a block and 4 digs …
Loyola Chicago ended the season for McKendree (14-12) behind 18 kills by Parker Van Buren within the 25-18, 25-18, 25-16 victory. Van Buren had one error in 24 assaults to hit .708 and had an ace, 4 digs and three blocks. Nicodemus Meyer had three kills in 4 errorless swings, an help, an ace, a dig and 7 blocks, one solo …
Ohio State beat Lewis (15-15) 26-24, 25-27, 25-21, 25-20. The Buckeyes bought 17 kills from Jacob Pasteur, who hit .424 and had 4 assists, 4 aces, two blocks and 5 digs. Shane Wetzel had 16 kills, hit .379, and had 4 blocks and 13 digs. Michael Wright had three kills in 4 errorless tries, 49 assists, three aces, a block and 7 digs. Max Roquet led Lewis with 17 kills, an help, two aces, 4 blocks and 4 digs …
Lindenwood hit .540 and rolled to a 25-22, 25-15, 25-17 victory over visiting Purdue Fort Wayne (14-12). Ian Schuller had 14 kills, hit .600, and had two blocks and two digs. A.J. Lewis, who hit .444, and Clay Wieter, who hit .643, had 10 kills every. Mark Frazier had 12 kills and hit .346 for PFW to go along with an help, an ace, a block and three digs.
MPSF
The league match begins Wednesday. Prime-seeded UCLA (22-4. 11-1) will get a bye and can play the bottom remaining seed on Thursday. Second-seeded Grand Canyon (22-4, 10-2) performs seventh-seeded Concordia Irvine (6-18, 0-12), third-seeded BYU (16-8, 7-5) performs No. 6 USC (12-14, 5-7) and No. 4 Stanford (13-11 6-6) performs No. 5 Pepperdine (17-10, 5-7).
Saturday, UCLA cruised to a 25-14, 25-16, 25-20 victory over visiting CUI because the Bruins hit .456. Merrick McHenry had 12 kills with no errors in 14 assaults, an help, a dig and 5 blocks, one solo. Alex Knight had 10 kills with one error in 14 assaults, three aces, three blocks and 5 digs. Andrew Rowan had a kill in his solely strive, 28 assists, two blocks and three digs …
Stanford ended the season with 25-22, 25-16, 21-25, 28-26 win over visiting USC behind 17 kills from Will Rottman, who hit 341 and had three assists, two aces, 11 digs and 5 blocks. Kevin Lamp had 13 kills and Ethan Hill 12 in 18 errorless assaults to go along with two digs and 4 blocks. USC’s Noah Roberts had 13 kills and Kyle Paulson and Jack Deuchar had 10 every.
EIVA
Penn State (21-6, 10-0) bought the highest seed within the EIVA Match and awaits the winner of the Wednesday match between fourth-seeded NJIT (11-14, 3-7) and No. 5 Harvard (11-12, 3-7). NJIT is coming off back-to-back wins at Harvard to finish the common season. George Mason (17-8, 6-3), the second seed, awaits the winner between third-seeded Princeton (12-11, 5-5) and sixth-seeded Charleston (12-15, 3-7). Princeton and Charleston break up matches to finish the common season.
Penn State beat Mason 25-16, 25-23, 22-25, 25-15 for its thirty eighth EIVA regular-season victory in a row. John Kerr continued to steer the Nittany Lions, this time with 20 kills. He hit .361 and had two assists, two aces, 5 blocks and 6 digs. Michal Kowal had 10 kills, hit .444, and had two assists, 5 digs and 4 blocks. Owen Rose had eight kills with one error in 11 assaults, an ace and 5 blocks, one solo. Luke Snyder had a kill in two errorless tries, 41 assists and 9 digs. Mason bought 11 kills every from Jack Bolz and Omar Hoyos …
NJIT beat Harvard 25-17, 25-21, 23-25, 25-20 as Alessandro Negri had 17 kills, hitting .364, an help, an ace, three blocks and 7 digs. Carson Williams had 9 kills with one error in 18 assaults, three aces, a dig and three blocks, one solo. Harvard’s Owen Fanning had 18 kills, hit .400, and had 5 digs …
Princeton, which misplaced in 5 to Charleston the day earlier than, bounced again for a 16-25, 25-17, 26-24, 21-25, 17-15 victory. Nyherowo Omene led with 22 kills, hitting .485, and had two assists, two aces, two blocks and 6 digs. Ben Harrington had 18 kills, two assists, an ace, a block and three digs. Setter Henry Wedbush had two kills in 4 errorless tries, 51 assists, 5 aces and 6 digs. Charleston’s Garret Schnitker had 18 kills, hit .483, and had two aces, seven digs and three blocks, one solo. Ras Jesse Delancy had 14 kills, hit .444, and had an ace, three blocks and 5 digs.
IVA
Lincoln Memorial received its sixth Unbiased Volleyball Affiliation match in a row because the Railsplitters thumped Thomas Extra 25-17, 25-16, 25-19.
Lincoln Memorial (21-5) hit .431. Justin Sharfenaker led with 13 kills, hit .381, and had an help, two aces and 5 digs. Setter Kohl Kutsch had 4 kills in 5 errorless tries, 30 assists, a solo block and 5 digs.
Thomas Extra ended its season 16-12.
Across the nation
Saint Francis (PA) ended the common season 20-8, 12-0 within the NEC with a 25-23, 28-26, 25-22 sweep of FDU. SFU is the host for the league match that begins Wednesday with third-seeded LIU (14-12, 8-4) performs sixth-seeded Sacred Coronary heart (11-19, 3-9) and fourth-seeded FDU (11-14, 5-7) vs. No. 5 Merrimack (9-15, 4-8).
SFU awaits the winner of FDU-Merrimack, whereas the LIU-SHU winner will get second-seeded Daemen (18-6, 9-3).
In SFU’s win over FDU, the Flash bought 14 kills from Nathan Zini, who hit .444 and had two assists, two aces and 4 digs, and 12 from Andrew Deardorff, who hit .381 and had an help, an ace and 7 digs. FDU’s Jamal Ellis Carballo had 18 kills and hit .412 to go along with 4 aces, six digs and a block … Merrimack received in 4 units to finish D’Youville’s season at 10-13, 1-11. Logan Whitaker led Merrimack with 18 kills, two assists, 4 aces, 5 digs and two blocks … Daemen hit .435 and beat Sacred Coronary heart in 4 as Zach Schneider had 18 kills and Cameron Milligan 16. Milligan hit .520 and had two assists, two aces, 4 digs and 4 blocks …
The Convention Carolinas match begins Tuesday with fifth-seeded Barton dealing with No. 4 Mount Olive and No. 6 King enjoying third-seeded Erskine. The winners advance to Friday’s semifinals the place Belmont Abbey will get the Barton-MO winner and North Greenville performs the King-Erskine winner …
Within the ECC, St. Thomas Aquinas swept American Worldwide and Roberts Wesleyan received in 5 at Dominican.
