Pepperdine got here away with a five-set victory at UC Santa Barbara in NCAA males’s volleyball on Thursday, the one one of many seven matches that didn’t end in a sweep. BYU, taking part in for the primary time in almost two weeks, swept LIU.
The recaps and prime performances observe, however first a have a look at what’s on faucet Friday.
The massive match of the has top-ranked and unbeaten Lengthy Seashore State of the Huge West house for No. 4 UCLA of the MPSF. That is their first assembly since UCLA, en path to the title, swept in final yr’s nationwide NCAA semifinals. The identical groups play at UCLA on Saturday.
Fourth-ranked Stanford of the MPSF is again at No. 2 Hawai’i two days after dropping there in 4.
Additionally within the Huge West, CSUN is house for The Grasp’s College, a 5-0 NAIA staff from Santa Clarita, California.
There are three MIVA convention matches as first-place and No. 6 Ohio State goes to No. 13 Loyola Chicago, No. 11 Ball State is at McKendree and No. 20 Purdue Fort Wayne is at Queens.
Two Convention Carolinas league matches present Barton at Lees-McRae and Mount Olive at King. Emmanuel goes to unbiased Tusculum.
Three EIVA groups are in motion as Harvard is house for the NEC’s Merrimack, Charleston entertains Saint Francis (PA) of the NEC and Princeton performs host to unbiased Lincoln Memorial.
Additionally within the NEC, Daemen is house for the ECC’s St. Thomas Aquinas. The one SIAC staff taking part in is 0-10 Central State, which works to Maryville in Missouri. Impartial Missouri S&T is house for Talladega.
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There’s one Professional Volleyball Federation match when the second-place Grand Rapids Rise (1-0) go to the first-place Atlanta Vibe (3-0) for a 7 p.m. Japanese first serve on YouTube.
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No. 12 Pepperdine (8-2) of the MPSF got here away with a 25-13, 22-25, 23-25, 25-20, 15-9 the Huge West’s No. 17 UC Santa Barbara (4-8). Pepperdine gained regardless of getting out-hit .281-.232, however greater than made up for it witha 16-8 blocks benefit. Ethan Watson had 10 kills with one error in 17 assaults, an ace, a dig and 9 blocks, two solo.
Cole Rasic led the Waves with 12 kills, hit .320, and had an ace, 4 blocks and 5 digs. Cole Ketrzynski had 11 kills, two assists, 5 blocks and three digs, and Akin Akinwumi additionally had 11 kills to go along with an help, three blocks and three digs. Setter Tyler Stewart had a kill in his solely attempt, 37 assists and 10 digs.
UCSB’s Rees Barnett had 18 kills, no aces however 5 serving errors, two blocks and eight digs. Owen Birg had 13 kills and Ben Coordt 12. Coordt had one error in 28 swings, an help, two aces and 5 digs. Greg Baglio had a kill in his solely try, 47 assists, two blocks and 4 digs, and Joe Wallace had 10 digs and 4 assists …
Eight-ranked BYU (8-3) of the MPSF, which hadn’t performed since January 27, gained 25-23, 25-22, 25-16 over visiting LIU (3-7) of the NEC. Trent Moser led the Cougars with 10 kills however hit .095. 9 of his teammates had kills. LIU’s Gio Collazo had 11 kills, hit .318, and had an help and two blocks …
Daemen (5-2) opened NEC play by sweeping visiting D’Youville (4-1) as Zach Schneider tied this system file in a three-set match with 19 kills. Schneider had 5 errors in 32 assaults to hit .438 within the 25-22, 28-26, 25-16 victory and had two blocks and a dig. Daemen hit .342 and had seven aces — 4 by Cameron Milligan — and 14 errors. D’Youville hit .190 and had three aces and 15 errors. Shaun Vattakuzhiyil led with 9 kills …
Within the MIVA, McKendree (4-4, 1-1) hit .469 and swept 26-24, 25-17, 25-17 at Quincy (5-2. 1-2) as Nikos Xydakis had 21 kills and hit .655 after having two errors in 29 assaults. He added an ace and three digs. Quincy’s Raje Alleyne had 10 kills, an help, an ace, a solo block and 5 digs …
Sacred Coronary heart (4-6) of the NEC hit .390 and swept visiting NJIT (7-5) of the EIVA for its first victory over the Highlanders since 2019. Patrick Mucherino led SHU with 14 kills, hit .346, and had an ace, a block and 6 digs. Carlos Santa Cruz had six kills with one error in 15 assaults, 5 assists, an ace, two digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Jaron Popp had six kills in 10 errorless swings, an ace, a dig and 5 blocks, one solo. NJIT’s Will Migdal had 10 kills, Andrew Fedmasu 9 and Antonio Felicianao eight …
Concordia Irvine (4-1) of the MPSF swept visiting No. 19 UC San Diego (3-8) of the Huge West 25-17, 25-13, 25-23 as six gamers mixed for 22 whole kills. UCSD, outblocked 13-3.5, hit minus .024 …
Dominican (3-6) of the ECC swept visiting College of Mount Saint Vincent, which made the journey from the Bronx to the opposite aspect of the Hudson River simply north of New York Metropolis on the New Jersey border for its season opener. Wiley Phinehas led with 13 kills, hit .348, and had six digs and two blocks … Fort Valley State of the SIAC’s match with St. Andrews was canceled.
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