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

MVB Swings Into Action with Exhibition Matches

Men's Volleyball

Bruins will host their annual SAC Tournament on Nov. 15-16.

The 2020 UCLA men's volleyball team will swing into action this weekend with a series of exhibition matches across town at USC on the Galen Center Pavilion courts. The Bruins host their annual fall tournament in a couple of weeks.

This Saturday, UCLA will split its roster and compete in the USC Men's Volleyball Fall Tournament. Each team will play 3 matches.  Matches are best of 3 sets, with the first 2 sets to 25 points and the third set to 15 points (must win by 2 points). The participating teams are: USC (2 teams), UCLA (2 teams), Stanford, Pepperdine (2 teams), Long Beach State (2 teams), CSUN (two teams), UC San Diego (2 teams), Concordia and Westcliff. The event will be held upstairs in the Galen Center Pavilion side courts and admission is free.

UCLA begins play at the Trojan event with both its Blue and Gold squads in action at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The Blue will open with a match against Long Beach State Gold, while the Gold will start off against Long Beach State Black. Play continues throughout the day with UCLA and USC squaring off at 4 p.m. in the final slot of matches.

On Nov. 15-16, UCLA will host its 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 4:30 and 7:00 p.m. on Friday night and 9 am, 11:30 am, 2 pm and 4:30 pm on Saturday. Admission is free and seating is limited. The playing schedule will be announced soon.
 
On Dec. 7, UCLA will host MPSF rival Pepperdine for an exhibition. Time to be determined.
 
USC MVB Fall Tournament Schedule-Sat. Nov. 2

                         Jefferson Court              Exposition Court            Trojan Court                             Figueroa Court
 
 8:30am        USC Gold-CSUN Black       PEP Blue-Westcliff            UCLA Blue-LBSU Gold             LBSU Black-UCLA Gold
 
10:00am       GCU-UCSD Gold              UCSD Blue-CSUN Red       USC Cardinal-Stanford             PEP Orange-Concordia
 
11:30am        USC Gold-UCSD Gold       PEP Blue-CSUN Red       UCLA Blue-Stanford                  LBSU Black-Concordia
 
1:00pm         GCU-CSUN Black             UCSD Blue-Westcliff          USC Cardinal-LBSU Gold         PEP Orange-UCLA Gold
 
2:30pm    CSUN Black-UCSD Gold        Westcliff-CSUN Red          LBSU Gold-Stanford                  UCLA Gold-Concordia
 
4:00pm         USC Gold-GCU                  PEP Blue-UCSD Blue        UCLA Blue-USC Cardinal         LBSU Black-PEP Orange