This is UCLA's setter #13 Micah Ma'a
This is BYU's Outside Hitter #5 Gabi Garcia Fernandez
Dear Readers~
ON February 9, 2019 the #7 BYU Cougars traveled from Provo, Utah to Los Angeles, California to take on the host, the #4 UCLA Bruins, in a game of men's indoor volleyball. This is the first time this season that both of these teams have played each other in the regular season. Because of this, so many people were excited to see this game. The game took place on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7 pm Pacific Time at the John Wooden Center, there in Los Angeles, where the UCLA men's team has their home games when they're not at Pauley Pavilion, where UCLA's women's indoor volleyball team plays their home games in the fall. Now it's time to get into the game.
The first set ended 25-16 in favor of BYU while UCLA got their revenge by wining the second set 25-14. The third set ended 25-19, in favor of UCLA. With UCLA leading 2 sets to 1, BYU knew that they had to win the fourth set to stay in the game. The fourth set would later end 25-18 in favor of UCLA and ending the game in UCLA's favor after winning the last 3 sets of the game.
The leader in kills goes to UCLA's Austin Matautia, with a total of 13, while Gabi Garcia Fernandez led BYU with 11 kills of his own. The leader in aces goes to UCLA's Micah Ma'a, with 5 aces alone, while Gabi Garcia Fernandez led BYU with 3 aces of his own. The leader in blocks was UCLA's Matt Younggren, with 6, while Cyres Fa'alogo and Felipe de Britto Ferr both had 5 blocks each for BYU. The leader in assists was BYU's Will Stanley, with 23 assists, while UCLA's Micah Ma'a had 20 assists of his own. The leader in digs was UCLA's Adam Parks, with 9, while Gabi Garcia Fernande and Taylor Richards led BYU with 7 digs each.
UCLA's next game is against Long Beach State at 7 pm Pacific Time on Saturday, February 16th at the Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State in Long Beach, California. BYU's next game is against Concordia at 7 pm Mountain Time on Thursday, February 14th at the Smith Fieldhouse at BYU in Provo, Utah.
Just a fun fact about the visiting BYU Cougars, for those that haven't seen my BYU @ Pepperdine blog for men's indoor volleyball, is that AVP player and 2016 Rio Olympian Casey Patterson went there. With Casey being close with Riley and Maddison Mckibbin, he's in many of their vlogs. One of my favorites that he was in was the 4 man vlog the Mckibbin's did for the AVP Hawaii Open in 2018. That video is titled "The Fours Awaken EPIC Beach Volleyball Match" That game had quite the teams. Casey's team was called "The Lilikoi Boys" and that team included Maddison Mckibbin, Sam Schachter, and Casey's current partner, Chase Budinger. I suggest watching the whole video. The Mckibbin brothers did a good job putting the video and the event together so make sure to watch it at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQ7CiCkvY4 Don't forget to follow Casey on Instagram: @caseypatt
This is a clip of Casey from the 4 man game in Hawaii at the 1:25 mark
Just a fun fact about the host, the UCLA Bruins, is that another AVP player, this time on the female side, attended that school and her name is Kelly Reeves. In 2016 Kelly Reeves was the AVP newcomer of the year for the 2016 AVP season. Being good friends with Riley and Maddison, she got the chance to do a video with them and instead of it being a vlog, like with Casey, she got to do a tutorial. Her tutorial is called "How to Bump Set- Beach Volleyball Tutorial" One of the things she talks about are the 3 types of sets that she personally uses. These three are the normal set, the tempo set, and the shoot set. Keep in mind that I'm not a professional volleyball player (not yet anyway, but the day may come) so if you want to watch the whole tutorial by Kelly, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EXb-rlia9Y Don't forget to follow her on Instagram: @kellyreeves02 for more. She even does Typical Tuesday, so I suggest checking that out.
This is the map/graph Kelly drew for the 3:40 mark
That concludes my blog about the #7 BYU @ #4 UCLA men's indoor volleyball game at the John Wooden Center there in Los Angeles, California. Feel free to check out some of my previous blogs like USC @ UCI or Stanford @ Hawaii if you like men's indoor volleyball, my P1440 series if you like beach volleyball played by pros, or Stanford vs Nebraska for the women's indoor national finals back in December. Don't forget to mark your calendars for early May when the AVP has their first event in Huntington Beach, California to start the 2019 season, which is also the same weekend as the 2019 NCAA beach volleyball finals in Gulf Shores, Alabama if you live on the east coast. The 2019 NCAA beach volleyball season starts in under 2 weeks so take a look to see if your favorite school has a team that will be competing. Until next time, Miller out.
~J. Miller
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