What a great Thursday it was at the Outrigger Invitational in Hawaii.
And what a Friday it was on tap for NCAA Division I-II men's volleyball.
The last undefeated team, MPSF top-ranked Grand Canyon, lost to No. 5 UC Irvine in the Big West.
Hawaii, ranked No. 3 in the Big West, then defeated visiting No. 14 Lewis of MIVA, setting up Friday's showdown between the two teams with one loss for first place and third place. Previously, UCI and Lewis met at the Stan Sherif Center.
No. 2 Long Beach State will open Big West play with a visit to the Pyramid by No. 19 UC Santa Barbara.
UCLA, ranked No. 4 in the MPSF, will play Penn State, ranked No. 9 in the EIVA.
Ohio State is No. 8 in MIVA and USC is No. 12 in MPSF.
BYU, ranked No. 6, will face No. 7 Stanford for a big matchup in the MPSF.
MPSF No. 10 Pepperdine continues its Conference Carolian swing as the Waves head to Tygerville, South Carolina to play North Greenville. MPSF's Concordia Irvine is also home to St. Xavier of Illinois. SXU is overcoming losses at Vanguard and Masters with a trip to California.
MIVA has two other non-conference games scheduled, with No. 20 McKendree facing Conference Carolina's Erskine and Quincy facing independent Maryville.
There are two EIVA games as NJIT heads to No. 17 George Mason and Harvard University to Merrimack, NEC, 45 miles north of Massachusetts. Also in the NEC, LIU hosts Burton of the Conference Carolinas, and Damen is home to independent Tusculum.
Lees-McRae of the Conference Carolinas will face Campbellsville, and Emmanual of the Conference Carolinas will face Talladega.
There are four SIAC games. Wineless Benedict (0-10) will play Central State (3-17), which has won back-to-back games against Morehouse, twice, while Edward Waters will play Kentucky State and winless Morehouse (0-10). will play in Fort Valley. state.
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Thursday's action also includes wins for UCI and Hawaii, as well as a win for Pepperdine at Belmont Abbey.
UCI (13-4) Beat Grand Canyon (15-1) I guarantee there will be no undefeated team this season. UCI, which has won seven straight, had a career-high tying 29 kills in the 25-21, 19-25, 24-26, 29-27, 15-6 victory. Henno committed three errors in 64 attempts, batted .406, and added an assist, an ace, a block, and eight digs. William Darcy had 19 kills, including two errors, on 31 swings, batted .548, had an ace, two blocks, and 11 digs. Maxim Grigoriev had 12 kills, a .474 batting average, four assists, three aces, five blocks (two solo) and three digs. Brett Sheward had 1 kill, 58 assists, 10 digs and 3 blocks. Akil Tangtur had 10 digs, five kills, two assists and three blocks, and Cole Power had 15 digs and four assists. UCI had a batting average of .370 with five service aces and 15 serving errors.
GCU's Jackson Hickman had 23 kills with no errors in 38 attempts, a .604 batting average, three blocks and 15 digs. Cameron Thorne had 14 kills, a .550 batting average, two digs, seven blocks and one solo. Camden Gianni had 12 kills, but also had 11 errors, one assist, four aces, six blocks and five digs. Nicholas Lis had 58 assists, one block and 10 digs. His team's record was .283 with 8 service aces and 12 errors…
Hawaii (15-1) Won a sweep of the visitors 25-9, 25-18, 25-21 Lewis (10-9). The Rainbow Warriors, who have won 14 straight games, had a batting average of .458 with 10 aces and 11 errors. Spryos Chakas led the way with 15 kills, and in 19 attempts he made one error, had two aces, two blocks, and two digs, hitting .737. Alakai Todd had 8 kills, 1 error, 2 aces, 1 block, and 5 digs in 12 attempts, and Guilherme Boss had 7 kills, .556 batting average, 2 aces, 2 digs, 2 blocks, and 1 solo. Recorded. Lewis, who hit .206 with one ace and 16 errors, got nine kills from Max Lockett…
pepperin (13-5) opened the Conference Carolinas road trip with a 25-16, 25-17, 25-20 win. belmont abbey (11-3). Cole Ketrzynski batted .375 with an ace, two blocks, five digs and led the way with 17 kills. Ryan Burnett had 10 kills, .308 batting average, 2 aces, 2 blocks, and 7 digs, and Akin Akinwumi had 7 kills, 2 assists, 3 aces, 2 blocks, and 7 digs. Recorded. Waves batted .333 with six aces and seven digs. There were 14 errors. Belmont Abbey batted .138 with one ace and 13 errors. Zach Puentes had 8 kills…
linden wood (8-9) MIVA won four games. Erskine Clay Wheater had 16 kills for the Conference Carolinas (9-7). Waiters hit .542 and added an assist, an ace, five digs, and two blocks… fort valley state (7-5) SIAC dominates visits emmanuel Conference Carolinas (5-14). Chay Cooper had 11 kills, and Isaiah Fedd and Jackson Hicks each had nine kills.
Wednesday, low University of Southern California (11-8) Beat visit pennsylvania state university (12-5) 25-22, 25-19, 15-25, 25-23 as Jack Deucher had 14 kills, Dillon Cline had 13 kills and Riley Hayne had 11 kills. Hayne batted .429 with three blocks and four digs, but also had a no. A service ace and five serve errors. The Trojans hit .238 with six aces (three to Caleb Blanchett) and 20 errors. USC suffered a four-game losing streak, losing twice to then No. 2 GCU and twice to No. 4 UCLA. Penn State's John Kerr had 21 of the team's 39 kills, hitting .405 with one ace, two blocks and four digs. Penn State batted .250 with seven aces (four by Toby Ezeonu) and 20 errors…
Wednesday too saint francis (PA) NEC (11-6) won four games. fort valley state He batted .435 (6-5). Michael Mosbacher led the way with 22 kills, a .526 batting average, and had two aces, four digs, and one block… mckendree Sweep with (10-6) Missouri University of Science and Technology (8-10) Hit .347, 6 players with 6 or more kills… No. 18 University of California San Diego (8-10) Batting average .469, sweep st catherine.
