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#25 UCLA Wins the Weekend at UH
September 07, 2015 | Women's Volleyball
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HONOLULU, Hawai'i - Freshman Zana Muno recorded seven kills, 42 assists and 20 digs in the championship match of the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Classic on Sunday, as the 25th-ranked Bruins defeated #17 Hawai'i in four sets. Set scores were 25-16, 25-27, 25-17, 28-26.
The Bruins improve to 4-1 on the season and saddle the Rainbow Wahine with their first loss of the year, dropping them to 5-1.
Muno, who didn't commit a hitting error in 11 attempts (.636 hitting percentage), had three double-doubles on the weekend. Junior Jordan Anderson was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player and was joined on the All-Tournament Team by sophomore Reily Buechler. Buechler had a match-best 18 kills to go with 11 digs for a double-double, while Anderson added 15 kills, four digs and four blocks.
Redshirt junior Haley Lawless posted 10 kills and a career-best seven blocks, while junior Claire Felix added eight kills and just one error in 16 attempts (.438) with six blocks. In the backcourt, junior Taylor Formico had 16 digs, senior Rachel Inouye added 14 and senior Karly Drolson notched six. The Bruins hit .242 for the match.
The Bruins scored the first four points of the match and never trailed in the opening set. Two UH attack errors, a combo block by Anderson and junior Jennie Frager and an Anderson kill accounted for the early scoring. The Rainbow Wahine scored the next four to even things, but a 6-1 run put the visitors up 10-5. The streak started with a Frager/Lawless block and a Lawless kill, and after a sideout, two Buechler kills and two combo blocks by Felix and Lawless made it a five-point difference.
Still up by five at 16-11, three straight Lawless kills extended the lead to 19-11. With the score 20-14, a Lawless kill, a UH attack error and kills by Buechler and Felix gave the Bruins 10 set points at 24-14. The Rainbow Wahine saved the first two, but Buechler's team-best sixth kill of the opener completed the 25-16 victory. Lawless added five kills, while Anderson recorded three. The Bruins had five blocks, with Frager and Lawless coming up with three apiece. Muno had 13 assists and five digs and set the Bruins to a .345 percentage, while UH hit .000.
Hawai'i jumped out to a 10-2 lead in set two, but the Bruins slowly but surely came back. A 5-1 run on a UH service error, a Lawless kill, a combo block by Anderson and freshman Kyra Rogers and kills by Rogers and Muno made it 11-7. With UH up 18-14, kills by Buechler and Lawless and a Drolson ace got the Bruins to within one.
The Rainbow Wahine raised their lead to four again at 22-18, but the Bruins saved two set points and made a 7-2 run to record a set point of their own. The seven points came on two Felix kills, one by Anderson, an Anderson/Felix block, an Inouye ace and two UH errors to make it 25-24 Bruins. However, the Rainbow Wahine scored the next three points to win the second 27-25. Buechler paced the Bruins with four kills, while Anderson added three. Muno notched 10 assists and seven digs, as the Bruins were out-hit .167 to .125.
Hawai'i had as much as a three-point lead at 8-5, but the Bruins went on a 7-0 run and never looked back. The streak began and ended with UH attack errors, as two Anderson kills, two Muno kills and a Formico ace made it 12-8. The Bruin lead stayed above three for the rest of the set.
Leading 21-16, the Bruins ended the third on a 4-1 run on kills by Anderson and Buechler and two UH errors to win it 25-17. Anderson and Buechler each had four kills, while Muno added three kills. Inouye posted seven digs and Formico notched five, as the Bruins out-hit the Rainbow Wahine .306 to .098.
A thrilling fourth set saw the Bruins squander four match points and save two UH set points only to win it 28-26. UCLA busted out to a 9-2 lead thanks to a pair of kills by both Buechler and Muno, kills by Anderson and Lawless, a Frager ace and two Rainbow Wahine errors. With the Bruins still up 14-7, the home team netted six straight to cut their deficit to one.
However, UCLA scored the next four on kills by Lawless and Buechler, a Felix/Lawless block and a bad UH set to go ahead 18-13. The Rainbow Wahine again closed to one at 20-19, but kills by Felix, Buechler and Anderson made it 23-19, and after a UH sideout, an Anderson kill gave the Bruins four match points.
Hawai'i would save all four and scored five straight to earn its first set point of the fourth, but an Anderson kill equaled things at 25. Another UH sideout gave the home squad a second set point, but the Bruins had three straight blocks, first a solo stuff by Frager and then back-to-back combo blocks by Felix and Lawless to give UCLA the 28-26 victory. Anderson paced the Bruins with five kills in the fourth, Buechler added four and Lawless had three with three blocks. Muno tallied three kills, 11 assists and five digs, as the Bruins out-hit the Rainbow Wahine .227 to .180.
The Bruins head up the coast next weekend for the UCSB Tournament, facing San Diego on Friday, Sept. 11 at 4 p.m., SMU on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. and the host Gauchos on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. Free audio will be available for Friday and Sunday's matches on UCLABruins.com.
