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This is one of UCI's Middle Blockers, a Redshirt Freshman, #18 Austin Wilmot
On Saturday, March 3, 2019 the UCI Anteaters were host to the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in a game of men's indoor volleyball at the Bren Events Center there in Irvine, California. The two teams played each other on both Friday, March 1st and also Saturday March 2nd. This was big because Hawaii is ranked #2 while UCI is ranked #3. I'll be covering their second game. The results to their first game will be linked below: https://ucirvinesports.com/boxscore.aspx?id=5883&path=mvball Now that you've seen how the first game went, it's time to start off the second game.
The first set of the second game ended 25-13 in favor of Hawaii. The second set was the closest set of the day ending at 25-22, also in favor of Hawaii. UCI knew that they had one last chance in this third set. If they won a fourth set would happen but if they lost the game would end with Hawaii winning all 3 sets. The third set came to an end at 25-20 with Hawaii winning and beating UCI in 3 straight sets.
Now it' s time to cover the top athlete of each category: kills, aces, blocks, assists, and digs. The leader in kills goes to Hawaii's Rado Panapunov, with 16, while UCI's Aaron Koubi had 10 kills of his own. The leader in aces was a tie. Joe Worsley and Rado Panapunov, for Hawaii, and also Joel Schneidmiller, all had 2 aces each. The leader in blocks was Hawaii's Patrick Gasman, with 7, while Scott Stadick led UCI with 3 blocks of his own. The leader in assists goes to Hawaii's Joe Worsley, with 39, while UCI's Dante Chakravorti had 21 assists of his own. The leader in digs was Hawaii's Gage Worsley, with 6, while UCI's Alexandre Nsakanda had 3 digs of his own.
Hawaii's next game is on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 7 pm Hawaii Time against King University at the Stan Sheriff Center there in Honolulu, Hawaii as part of the Outrigger Resorts and Hotels Invitational. UCI's next game is on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 6 pm Pacific Time as they travel to Provo, Utah to take on BYU at the Smith Fieldhouse. UCI is just playing a normal game so they won't be playing in a tournament like Hawaii is.
That concludes my latest blog consisting of Hawaii @ UCI for some men's NCAA indoor volleyball. Don't forget that the first AVP event is May 3-5, 2019 in Huntington Beach, California while the NCAA beach volleyball finals are that same weekend in Gulf Shores, Alabama and hosted by UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham. The national championships for men's indoor volleyball happens at a similar time from May 2-4, 2019 in Long Beach, California hosted by Long Beach State. Until next time, Miller out
~J. Miller
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