Saturday, August 25
Los Angeles, CA
4:00 PM
UCLA
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Senior Zana Muno and the Bruins won their 20th-straight season opener.
Photo by: Don Liebig/ASUCLA
No. 11 Bruins Beat Gonzaga in Season Opener
August 25, 2018 | Women's Volleyball
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LOS ANGELES - Senior Zana Muno began her final season in Westwood with a 25-dig performance, while three Bruins were in double figures in kills, as the 11th-ranked Bruins opened their 2018 campaign with a four-set victory over Gonzaga on Saturday at the John Wooden Center. It marked the 20th season in a row in which UCLA has won its opener. Set scores were 25-18, 21-25, 25-20, 25-22.
Sophomore Mac May paced the offense with 14 kills to go with six digs and two aces. Sophomore Jenny Mosser added 13 kills, eight digs and a career-best four aces, while junior Madeleine Gates had 10 kills and just one hitting error in 14 attempts for a career-high .643 hitting percentage. Senior Kyra Rogers recorded nine kills and two aces and redshirt freshman Alexis Light posted seven kills. Freshman Devon Chang was the setter for the final two sets and had 22 assists, nine digs and three block solos. Junior Kylie Miller started and had 21 assists and four digs. The Bruins hit .302 for the match.
The Bruins trailed just once in the opening set of the season, scoring three in a row after an early 2-1 deficit. Up 9-7, UCLA scored five of six to prompt a Gonzaga timeout. Rogers had two kills during the 5-1 run, Mosser added one, May served an ace and the Bulldogs committed an attack error. UCLA's lead remained between five and a set-best 10 for the rest of the stanza. At 15-10, two Mosser aces and a kill, two Gates kills and a Gates/Miller combo block as part of a 6-1 run put UCLA ahead 21-11. At 24-18, a Mosser kill finished the 25-18 win. Rogers paced the Bruins with five kills in the first set, May added four and Gates and Mosser each had three. Muno recorded eight digs. The Bruins out-hit the Bulldogs .371 to .138.
It appeared the Bruins would run away with set two, but an 8-0 Gonzaga run gave the visitors the lead for good in the middle of the second. UCLA raced out to a 10-4 advantage, as leading 5-4, kills by Gates and May, a Mosser ace and two Gonzaga attack errors put the Bruins up by a half dozen. But the Bulldogs responded with eight in a row to take a two-point lead and didn't trail for the rest of the set. The closest the Bruins got the rest of the way was one, with Gonzaga holding as much as a five-point edge at 22-17, eventually winning the third 25-21. Gates and May both had three kills in the second, while Muno added six digs, as the Bruins were out-hit .156 to .136.
Like the first set, the Bruins only trailed once at 5-4, scoring the next three on a kill by Light, an ace from freshman Sawyer Aigner-Swesey and a Gonzaga attack error to go ahead 7-5. Up 11-8, UCLA scored six of eight to go up by a set-best seven at 17-10. May was a part of four of the points on two kills, a solo block and a combo roof with Rogers, who also added a kill during the run, as did Gates. The Bruins led by at least three for the rest of the set, with kills by May and Rogers closing out a 25-20 win. May had five kills to lead the Bruins in the third, while Rogers added three. Muno recorded six more digs. The Bruins out-hit the Bulldogs .222 to .179.
Set four was the closest with eight ties and a pair of lead changes. Six of the ties came in the first 12 points of the set, which was followed by four in a row for the Bulldogs to give them a 10-6 lead. The Bruins didn't let their deficit get above four and slowly began to chip away at it. Down 17-15, three straight Gonzaga attack errors, the last two which came on a pair of solo blocks by Chang, put the Bruins up for good at 18-17. At 20-19, a Light kill, a May ace and a Mosser kill gave UCLA a four-point lead. Gonzaga would get to within two at 24-22, but a Mosser kill wrapped up a 25-22 win and the four-set victory for the Bruins. Mosser was 9-for-10 with no errors in the fourth, while Light added four kills. Chang had six digs and Muno posted five. The Bruins out-hit the Bulldogs .424 to .275.
The Bruins and the Bulldogs square off again on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the John Wooden Center. Admission to the match is free.
Team Stats
GON
UCLA
Kills
49
54
Errors
22
16
Attempts
140
126
Hitting %
.193
.302
Points
59.0
72.0
Assists
46
51
Aces
8
9
Blocks
2.0
9.0
Game Leaders
Kills
13
Aces
4
Blocks
0
Kills
10
Aces
0
Blocks
2
Kills
9
Aces
2
Blocks
3
Players Mentioned
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