BYU put a little bit of drama into the Mountain Pacific Sports activities Federation race with a five-set victory over error-prone Pepperdine, whereas Grand Canyon stayed undefeated within the league, and Hawaii made middles magic to focus on males’s NCAA Division I-II volleyball on Friday.
Elsewhere across the nation, Belmont Abbey took an vital street triumph in Convention Carolinas and Saint Francis topped Daemen in a showdown of groups unbeaten within the Northeast Convention.
The schedule for Saturday incorporates a Huge West rematch in Honolulu between Hawaii and Cal State Northridge and the second in an MPSF back-to-back with BYU at Pepperdine.
Eight of the 9 MIVA groups will see motion. Ball State visits Purdue Fort Wayne, Loyola travels to McKendree, Quincy entertains Lindenwood and Queens performs host to Lewis.
Convention Carolinas has one other full slate: Belmont Abbey at Barton, North Greenville at Mount Olive, Emmanuel at King and one-win Lees-McRae at Erskine, all within the afternoon.
Princeton and New Jersey Institute of Know-how meet in an EIVA encounter, whereas in nonconference affairs, George Mason welcomes Tusculum and Harvard performs host to Dominican (N.Y.).
First place within the NEC once more is in play when Daemen has a return match at Saint Francis. Additionally, Sacred Coronary heart is at Lengthy Island U., and Fairleigh Dickinson entertains Merrimack.
Within the SIAC, Morehouse’s “0” has an opportunity to go when the 0-11 Tigers greet one-win Benedict and Fort Valley State is at Edward Walters.
Elsewhere, Morningside and Thomas Moore go to Maryville and within the ECC, Roberts Wesleyan travels to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Friday’s recaps
MPSF: Ranked seventh within the weekly AVCA coaches ballot, BYU (12-7, 3-4) regained some traction within the convention by productive serving throughout a 24-26, 25-19, 25-22, 20-25, 15-12 rip-snorter over No. 8 Pepperdine (16-6, 4-4) earlier than a crowd of 1,273 in Malibu. The Cougars snapped the host Waves’ six-match successful streak.
Serving sub Ian Little performed a key function with 4 of BYU’s 9 aces (towards 12 errors) and reverse Kapuno Brown dialed up three service winners, to go together with 11 kills, eight digs and 5 blocks. Topping the kills record for the Cougars was Luke Benson with 21, and sophomore setter Tyler Herget (a Penn State switch) dished 45 assists, made 10 digs and logged 4 block assists.
The Waves made 44 errors, 23 from the service line, towards 4 aces. For naught have been grad scholar Akin Akinwami’s career-high 24 kills, .451 hitting and 10 digs.
Additionally, No. 5 Grand Canyon (20-2, 8-0) was pressed to 3 pretty contentious units by MPSF cellar dweller Concordia-Irvine (6-12, 0-6) 25-22, 25-22, 25-20 within the second match of their back-to-back collection. Jackson Hickman (14 kills, seven digs) and Jarrett Anderson (12 kills, an ace, three blocks) carried the load for the visiting Lopes.
BIG WEST: No. 2 Hawaii (18-3, 1-2) revved up its high-motor center blockers throughout a 25-15, 19-25, 27-25, 25-17 victory over No. 18 Cal State Northridge (11th of September, 0-3) earlier than a crowd of 6,858 at Honolulu’s Stan Sheriff Heart.
Senior AVCA All-American Guilherme Voss (10 kills towards one error on 14 swings with seven blocks) and 6-foot-9 redshirt sophomore Kurt Nusterer (six kills on six errorless assaults with 4 blocks) have been integral to setter Tread Rosenthal’s assault because the Rainbow Warriors proceed to adapt with out lost-for-the-season famous person Spyros Chakas (knee harm).
Chipping in have been reverse Alaka’i Todd (13 kills) and outdoors hitter Louis Sakanoko (10 kills, three aces and 7 digs).
The visiting Matadors’ ordinary go-to hitter, redshirt senior Kyle Hobus (21 kills with 4 errors on 43 swings), was efficient, however Hawaii shut down redshirt freshman reverse Jalen Phillips, who suffered 10 attacking errors towards eight kills.
CONFERENCE CAROLINAS: A 25-17, 25-23, 27-25 victory by Belmont Abbey (13-4, 8-1) at Mount Olive (13-7, 6-3) prolonged the Crusaders’ league result in two video games. Zach Puentes notched 17 kills on .429 hitting, ripped three aces and made 11 digs. … Remaining related within the standings have been Erskine (10-8, 6-3), which swept host King (4-16, 2-7), and North Greenville (8-8, 6-3), regardless that the Crusaders have been five-set losers at Barton (10-8, 5-4), 15-11 within the tiebreaker. Brandon Johnston (19 kills, 9 digs) paced a balanced Barton assault. … Host Lees-McRae (1-21, 0-9) fell two factors brief within the fifth set from getting a breakthrough convention victory, dropping to Emmanuel (8-14, 3-6).
NEC: Saint Francis (13-8, 5-0) handed visiting Daemen (13-4, 6-1) its first league setback in a four-setter (26-24 within the fourth). Strong hitting by Andrew Deardorff (16 kills) and Nathan Zini (15 kills with two aces) offset 22 kills by the Wildcats’ Zach Schneider. … Lengthy Island U. (10-11, 4-3) gained in 4 over visiting Merrimack (7-10, 2-3). … Host Fairleigh Dickinson (7-11, 1-4) earned its breakthrough convention victory in a five-setter (15-11 within the tiebreaker) towards Sacred Coronary heart (7-13, 2-5).
AROUND THE NATION: With Omar Hoyos ripping 10 children and 5 aces, Seventeenth-ranked George Mason (12-7) of the EIVA posted a lopsided sweep over visiting impartial Tusculum (6-17). … The No. 1-ranked workforce in Division-III, Wentworth (22-0), recorded an exhibition sweep of the ECC’s Dominican (10-9), by which the host Leopards performed 14 athletes. … Missouri S&T (10-10) swept fellow impartial Thomas Moore (11-11). … In an SIAC match, host Fort Valley State (9-7, 4-0) restricted Benedict (1-13, 1-5) to 16 kills towards 17 assault errors over three one-sided units.