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Bruins Drop Cardinals for Third Straight Win

Bruins Drop Cardinals for Third Straight Win

January 14, 2011 | Men's Volleyball

Jan. 14, 2011

Final Stats

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The 8th ranked UCLA men's volleyball team beat the Ball State Cardinals 3-1 to improve to 2-0 at the Outrigger Hotels Invitational in Honolulu, HI.

The win is the Bruins' third straight and they will face Hawaii on Saturday night for a chance to win the tournament for the 6th time in their history. Game scores were 25-22, 25-20, 23-25, 30-28.

UCLA jumped out to an early lead in the first set as freshman Gonzalo Quiroga served back-to-back aces to put the Bruins up 9-5. From there the Bruins took the first two sets and looked well on their way to a sweep. Ball State fought tough though, as they took third set 25-23 and put all of the pressure on the Bruins. But UCLA was able to pull through, fending off three set points and eventually taking the fourth set 30-28 to get the win.

Junior quick hitter Weston Dunlap led the Bruins tonight with a team-high 13 kills and 4 block assists. Dunlap also hit an amazing .812 to help the Bruins earn their fourth victory of the year. Thomas Amberg played well again in his second game back with the team, recording 9 kills (.381) and a game-high 7 block assists on the night. Opposite Jonathan Bridgeman followed up with 6 kills as well.

Jeremy Casebeer picked up right where he left off from the last two matches, scoring 9 kills (.115) and 4 blocks for the Bruins. Casebeer now has 31 kills, 3 aces and 10 block assists in his last three matches.

Overall, the Bruins hit .240 as a team while holding the Cardinals to just .214 on the night. They also out-blocked Ball State 13-10.5.

UCLA's next match will be tomorrow, January 15th, against the Hawaii Warriors at 9:00 p.m. PT/7:00 HT.

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