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Grant Maleski (l) and Daenan Gyimah (r) team up at the net.

MVB Weekend Wrap-Up

Men's Volleyball

The Bruins opened the exhibition season with a series of matches over the weekend.


On Sunday, UCLA men's volleyball squared off against Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival Stanford in a series of exhibition sets in the SAC Gym. The Bruins captured the first three sets 25-22, 25-17, 25-22 and the Cardinal came on to take the final two sets 22-25, 23-25.

UCLA men's volleyball split its team in half and opened up the exhibition season on Saturday with multiple matches in the USC Fall Invitational, including a sweep of the host Trojans (25-16, 25-14) in the final contest of the day. (full results below) 

Next Saturday, Nov. 10, the Bruin men's volleyball alumni are invited to take in a practice for Coach John Speraw's team (scheduled for 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. at a site to be determined).

On Nov. 16-17, UCLA will host its own annual Fall Invitational in the SAC Gym on campus with teams from CSUN, UC Santa Barbara and USC set to attend. Match times will be 5 and 7:30 p.m. on Friday night and 9 am, 11:30 am,  2 pm and 4:30 pm on Saturday. The full schedule of play will be announced soon.

Scores from the USC Fall Invitational - Nov. 3
UCSB Gold d. UCLA Blue --- 25-19, 25-21
UCLA Gold d. Pepperdine Orange --- 25-21, 25-21, 13-15*
UCLA Gold d. Concordia --- 26-24, 27-25, 19-17*
UCLA Blue d. Pepperdine Blue --- 26-28, 25-20, 19-17
UCLA Blue d. Concordia --- 25-19, 22-25, 15-12
UCLA Gold d. USC Gold --- 25-16, 25-14
* indicates third set played by mutual agreement of coaches