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Mastodons Rally Past Patriots

Fort Wayne, IN - The 12th ranked George Mason Patriots pushed IPFW to the limit, Friday night at the Hilliard Gates Sports Center. The Mastodons had to rally from a 2-1 deficit to top the Patriots, 3-2.

The 'Dons won by the scores of 30-19, 21-30, 26-30, 30-19, and 15-9.

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MUNCIE, Ind. - - The come-back kids struck again Friday night, as the Ball State men’s volleyball team rallied from two games down to post a thrilling 3-2 (17-30, 27-30, 30-28, 30-25, 15-13) victory over league-foe Lewis at Worthen Arena.

With the win, the Cardinals improve to 2-1 in Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association play and raise their overall record to 3-5. The Flyers fall to 3-3 (0-1 MIVA) with the loss.

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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Redshirt freshman Cody Loe knocked down a team-high 13 kills, Eric Vance added 12 and Tanner Nua chipped in 10 as seventh-ranked Cal State Northridge defeated Pacific 30-25, 30-25, 30-20 in an MPSF match on Friday at The Matadome.

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No. 6 Stanford came out strong and never looked back in their second sweep of the season, coming against MPSF rival UC Santa Barbara (30-28, 30-26, 30-26). The Cardinal hit an incredible .414 as a team in their most dominating victory of the season. Redshirt junior Jesse Meredith recorded 13 kills and hit .522 and senior Matt Ceran recorded 17 kills and hit .517 for the match.

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Los Angeles, Calif. -- Freshmen Cory Yoder and Kevin Wynne posted career-highs in kills to help lead the Anteaters to a 3-1 (30-28, 30-26, 27-30, 30-24) victory over No. 11 USC at the Galen Center Friday.

The score was tied 26-26 in game one when two Trojan attack errors gave UCI the 28-26 advantage. An Anteater service error was followed by a kill by Taylor Wilson to give UCI match point, 29-27. A UCI attack error delayed the victory until Cory Yoder pounded a kill for a 30-28 game one win. The largest lead of game one was two points.

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Los Angeles, Calif. -- Freshmen Cory Yoder and Kevin Wynne posted career-highs in kills to help lead the Anteaters to a 3-1 (30-28, 30-26, 27-30, 30-24) victory over No. 11 USC at the Galen Center Friday.

The score was tied 26-26 in game one when two Trojan attack errors gave UCI the 28-26 advantage. An Anteater service error was followed by a kill by Taylor Wilson to give UCI match point, 29-27. A UCI attack error delayed the victory until Cory Yoder pounded a kill for a 30-28 game one win. The largest lead of game one was two points.

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HONOLULU - The 13th ranked University of Hawai`i men's volleyball team (3-4, 2-2 MPSF) finished off the No. 15 UC San Diego (2-5, 1-5) tonight 30-25, 30-24, 28-30, 27-30, 15-7 in front a crowd of 2,652 at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Outside hitter Joshua Walker had 24 kills, a career best for the redshirt freshman. Walker made his second-consecutive start tonight. He also had four service aces and hit .413.
Outside hitter Jacob Schkud had 19 kills and seven digs. Setter Nejc Zemljak had 61 assists and six digs to pace the Warriors. Opposite Sean Carney was third on the team in kills with 11, adding a team-high 14 digs.

UH is now 39-0 all-time against UCSD. It is only the third time that UCSD and UH have gone to five sets.

UCSD came out strong against the Warriors early in game one. The Tritons led by as many as five, at 19-14 over Hawai`i. An attack error by Triton's Frank Fitsch gave UH their first lead of the game at 25-24. The Warriors took advantage of two more attack errors by UCSD and pulled out the win, 30-25.

Hawai`i took command of game two against the Tritons early. Two straight service aces by Walker gave UH a 20-13 lead, their largest of the game. The Warriors were aided by six Triton service errors and nine attack errors in their route of UCSD in game two, 30-24. The Tritons only hit .154 in game two.

Both teams fought back and forth throughout game three. The Tritons led most of the way, and at the midway point led 15-13. UH found itself back into the game when Carney and Walker got back-to-back kills to tie the game at 20. The Tritons closed out the game after a Russ Hardy kill gave them a two point advantage, 29-27. UH would not recover and UCSD took game three, 30-28.

In game four, UH and UCSD were locked during the contest. The Warriors held a slight advantage early on at 10-9 off a kill by Schkud. An attack error by Carney and a kill by Fritsch gave UCSD a slight 19-17 edge. The Warriors could not get back into the match and UCSD won their second straight game, 30-27, to force game five.

The Warriors started off strong in game five. UH jumped out to a 8-1 lead against UCSD. Steven Grgas and Walker chipped in two kills apiece to slow down the Tritons. UCSD could not revive their efforts after their slow start. The Warrior frontline stymied the Tritons, sparked by James Clar, who came off the bench and tallied five blocks in game five alone, pushing the Warriors to the 15-7 win.

The Warriors will next travel to the mainland to face off against UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 1 and 2.

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Fortunate circumstances have a way of circling back to the unfortunate. After enduring its share of bad fortune, the UCLA men's volleyball team was more than willing Friday night to accept some from an opponent.

Fifth-ranked UCLA happily took No.2 Pepperdine's only service error of Game 5 at match point to stop several streaks of futility, and hand the Waves their second straight loss at Firestone Fieldhouse.

The Bruins defeated the Waves 21-30, 30-20, 27-30, 30-28, 15-12 in two hours and six minutes in front of 1,357 in Malibu. UCLA improved to 6-3 overall, 4-2 in league play. Pepperdine fell to 4-2 overall and in conference play. The victory snapped UCLA's two-match skid and ended a four-match losing streak to the Waves. The win also was the Bruins' first at Pepperdine since the 2004 season.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The eighth-ranked Ohio State (4-1 overall, 3-0 Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) men’s volleyball team completed a two-match sweep of Quincy (4-5, 0-5) with a 3-0 (30-19, 30-28, 30-17) victory over the Hawks Saturday night in the Pepsi Arena. Buckeye Robbie Klein (Sr.-Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio) scored a match-high 13.5 points with 11 kills, two ace serves and an assist block. Quincy’s Peter Coley collected a team-high 11 points with nine kills, a solo block and two assist blocks.

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Fort Wayne, IN - No. 9 IPFW ran its current winning streak to three with a, 3-0 win over Rutgers-Newark on Saturday night at the Hilliard Gates Sports Center.

IPFW had to work overtime to win game one, 32-30, but took the next two easily, 30-21, and 30-20.

Rutgers-Newark (2-3) held a pair of game points in the first, but couldn't deliver.

IPFW fought off both, and senior middle Josh Stewart put the 'Dons up, 31-30 with one of his five kills in the match.

The Mastodons would win on the next point as the Scarlet Raiders suffered a hitting error.

IPFW head coach Arnie Ball was able to work his entire lineup into the match.

Freshman Darryl Shank responded with three kills and three digs.

Senior Dan McNerney came on and put up 4.5 points on a pair of kills, two service aces, and a block assist. McNerney also registered nine assists.

Senior outside hitter C.J. Macias led the 'Dons with nine kills. He also had three digs and five block assists.

Sophomore outside hitter Nate Stott led the Scarlet Raiders with a match-high 11 kills.

With the win, IPFW improves to 3-2. The Mastodons return to MIVA action on Friday night at Quincy. First serve is 8:30 p.m.