BYU, Pepperdine, Lindenwood gets men’s volleyball upsets; San Diego wins in PVF
Long Beach State setter Aidan Knipe (5) blocks Max Roquet of Lewis/Jim Wolf photo
BYU and Pepperdine pulled off MPSF upsets and Lindenwood had one in the MIVA on Friday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball.
In the Pro Volleyball Federation, San Diego won the first set and then the first match in franchise history.
The MPSF has three matches, with No. 2 Grand Canyon home for USC, UCLA back at BYU and Stanford at Pepperdine.
Two Big West teams play out of conference when CSUN entertains the MIVA’s Lewis and UC Irvine goes to the MPSF’s Concordia Irvine.
The MIVA slate shows Ohio State is back at Queens, Loyola Chicago at Lindenwood and McKendree at Purdue Fort Wayne.
EIVA action has its three ranked teams in action, with Penn State home for NJIT, Princeton at Harvard and George Mason at Charleston.
There are three NEC matches with Daemen home for LIU, FDU at D’Youville and Saint Francis (PA) at Sacred Heart.
Independent Lincoln Memorial is home for Lees-McRae of Conference Carolinas, which has three league matches, Erskine at Barton, Emmanuel at Mount Olive and North Greenville at King.
Two SIAC teams play when Edward Waters is home for Talladega and Kentucky State entertains independent Maryville.
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Friday men
Top-ranked Long Beach State (12-1) beat visiting Lewis (8-7) of the MIVA in four as Clarke Godbold had 16 kills and Simon Torwie — who had no errors in 16 attacks — and Skyler Varga had 13 each …
No. 3 Hawai’i (12-1) swept independent Missouri S&T (8-8) again. Hawai’i, which hit .394 and had 12 aces, got kills from nine players. Chaz Galloway had nine kills, hit .583, and had two aces and two digs …
The Big West’s No. 5 UC Irvine (9-4) hit .494 and swept Concordia (5-4) of the MPSF. Hilir Henno had 12 kills and hit .474 and William D’Arcy had 11 and hit .409 …
In its Big West-opening match, No. 20 UC San Diego (6-8, 1-0) hit .402 and beat visiting No. 18 UC Santa Barbara (5-10, 0-1) in four behind 13 kills from Sebastian Lara, who had one error in 21 swings, two assists, six digs and a solo block. UCSB’s Geste Bianchi had 19 kills …
There were three MPSF matches.
Second-ranked Grand Canyon (12-0, 3-0 MPSF), the nation’s only unbeaten team, beat visiting No. 10 USC (10-5, 2-1) in four as Cameron Thorne and Jackson Hickman had 14 kills each. Thorne had one error in 17 attacks and Hickman one error in 26 swings …
No. 8 BYU (10-5, 1-2), coming off back-to-back losses to GCU, came away with a 31-29, 23-25, 18-25, 25-21, 15-12 victory over visiting No. 4 UCLA (11-4, 2-1), which lost despite hitting .491. BYU, which hit .390, got 16 kills from Luke Benson, 14 from Miks Ramanis and 12 from Kupono Browne, who had four of his team’s 11 aces. BYU had 27 serving errors. UCLA’s Zach Rama had 21 kills with three errors in 32 attacks to hit .563 but had no aces and seven of the Bruins’ 28 serving errors. UCLA had three aces …
And No. 11 Pepperdine (10-4, 1-2) knocked off visiting No. 6 Stanford (7-6, 0-1) as the Waves hit .392 in the four-set win. Ryan Barnett had 12 kills in 18 errorless attacks and Cole Ketzynski had 12 kills with one error in 23 swings. Stanford’s Ryan DuRoss had 12 kills …
There was an upset in the MIVA, as No 12 Loyola Chicago lost in four at Lindenwood, which hit .389 and got 22 kills from Ian Schuller … Also in the MIVA, No. 7 Ohio State swept Queens, No. 13 Ball State did the same at Quincy, and Purdue Fort Wayne beat McKendree in four …
In the EIVA, No. 9 Penn State beat NJIT in four, Charleston knocked off No. 17 George Mason in four, and No. 14 Princeton swept at Harvard …
In Conference Carolinas, Belmont Abbey beat Lees-McRae in four, Mount Olive swept Erskine and Barton pulled a reverse sweep over visiting Emmanuel. Brandon Johnston had 17 kills n the 20-25, 20-25, 26-24, 26-24, 15-8 victory …
In the NEC, No. 20 Daemen beat FDU in four, LIU won in four at D’Youville, and Saint Francis (PA) won in four at Sacred Heart.
Pro Volleyball Federation
The San Diego Mojo (1-4) got the first win in franchise history with a 36-34, 25-27, 25-23, 25-23 victory over the visiting Grand Rapids Rise (3-2).
The Mojo, swept in their first four matches, got a 30-point performance from Temi Thomas-Ailara, who had 25 kills, 10 digs and 12 blocks, five solo. Lindsey Vander Wiede had 14 kills and Hannah Tapp had 11 kills and eight blocks, three solo. Shara Marie Venegas Medina had 19 digs and nine assists.
Emiliya Dimitrova and Symone Abbott had 17 kills each for Grand Rapids. Sarah Sponcil had 26 digs.
The lone Saturday match has the Columbus Fury at the Vegas Thrill.
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