By james art 
Irvine, California – CUI’s male volleyball pushed the # 7 of BYU to the test while forcing their last series of series to five sets. After the cougities led in the beginning of 2-0, the golden eagles jumped straight back to win the next two, forcing the fifth set. The fifth set went to the benefit of BYU and eventually led to winning the match with results 25-21, 25-15, 18-25, 20-25 and 15-8.
Cruse ae’a wore the Libero T -shirt and picked up eight cops while Colin Marx He executed the crime and ended the match with 39 assists and three strokes. Brands have reached the highest career of five block assists on the network.
External attackers Makua Marumamo and Christian Galoppo They had 14 and eight strokes, respectively, while they both hit around .410. Maramo helped to close the Cugars crime with four assists. Marcus Morgan He served difficult when he reached a team of four aces and had nine strokes with six cops.
Clement Osahon, Jr. and Kasey Clouet Were they average for CUI and had a combined 11 beats and nine block assists. Clouet won the only solo block for green and gold.
In the third set, the golden eagles jumped to a hot start, as they had a 14-6 lead over the couges and did not allow them to return to the set. The next set was a battle as Byu had a slight advantage with the lead but Makai Lipson He went into the game and served several points to take a two -point lead. Morgan was next to serve both an ace and a block of Osahon Jr. and Marumo extended their leading 23-17 and managed to close the place of the Peta.
The couges came out with an early lead with 5-0 and the golden eagles were hard to go back from behind. Kui continued to score eight points into the heel, but Byu only allowed them to win two consecutive points twice.
The Golden Eagles will host two non -conference games next week, starting with UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 20 and UC San Diego Saturday February 22 with a start time at 19:00.
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