A busy Division I-II men’s volleyball weekend got underway Thursday with second-ranked UCLA putting an end to Penn State’s nine-match winning streak and top-ranked Hawai’i sweeping Purdue Fort Wayne.
Among the other results, No. 7 Pepperdine got an MPSF sweep of No. 10 USC and St. Francis Brooklyn and streaking Daemen got NEC victories. The recaps and top performances follow, plus a couple of NCAA women’s coaching moves.
Friday’s schedule is chock full of more non-conference matchups, not the last of which is Hawai’i of the Big West playing Penn State of the EIVA and the MPSF’s UCLA playing Purdue Fort Wayne of the MIVA.
The Big West has two conference matches when fourth-ranked Long Beach State plays host to UC Santa Barbara and No. 6 UC Irvine is home for UC San Diego.
Eighth-ranked BYU of the MPSF is home for No. 15 Ohio State of the MIVA. Fifth-ranked Grand Canyon of the MPSF plays Olivet Nazarene of Illinois, which is making an Arizona trip.
Two EIVA teams are in action when No. 14 Charleston plays Mount Olive of Conference Carolinas and George Mason takes on independent Limestone.
In the MIVA, Lewis is home for Erskine of Conference Carolinas, McKendree gets King of Conference Carolinas, and Quincy goes to Maryville.
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