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Check out the match results from the NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams that were in action Friday.
MPSF matches
No. 3 Pepperdine def. No. 4 BYU 25-19, 17-25, 25-21, 26-28, 15-11
No. 5 Long Beach State def. No. 7 Stanford 17-25, 25-27, 25-18, 25-18, 15-11
No. 8 UC Irvine def. UC San Diego 25-11, 25-20, 25-12
No. 10 UC Santa Barbara def. No. 9 Hawai’i 20-25, 25-23, 25-14, 21-25, 15-13
Cal State Northridge def. Pacific 25-20, 19-25, 19-25, 25-22, 15-11
MIVA matches
Ball State def. IPFW 18-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-27, 15-10
Conference Carolinas matches
Limestone def. Belmont Abbey 25-12, 25-21, 25-12
Non-conference matches
Penn State def. Mount Olive 25-14, 25-13, 25-19
George Mason def. Barton 25-14, 25-27, 25-23, 25-13
Lindenwood def. Lees-McRae 28-26, 25-14, 25-21
Coker def. McKendree 21-25, 25-17, 34-36, 25-19, 15-10
Lees-McRae def. Quincy 22-25, 25-17, 25-17, 20-25, 15-10
Quincy def. Pfeiffer 28-30, 25-19, 20-25, 25-23, 16-14
Wow, UCSD has never been a MPSF powerhouse….but they are really sucking up the court this year. 5 wins in ’11, 6 wins in ’12, 4 wins last year…but they’ll be doing good to win 1 or 2 this year.
Young team, but they have a great coach. They’ll continue to get better throughout the season. Plus, the Tritons have been known to pull off one or two crazy upsets in March and April.
True about the youth…plus they don’t have their best pin (Awerkamp) right now because of an injury. Eberts and Frishman graduated; Lennon transferred to UCSB; and I don’t know what happened to MB Brady. But they’ve lost good players to graduation before and had enough next year to at least be competitive. I still think 4 wins is going to be a real stretch at this point. They have one game left with Cal Baptist, two with Pacific…and after that, I just don’t know where the wins are going to come from.