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Team vs. UCI
Martin A. Folb
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Pepperdine PEP 5-3
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Winner UC Irvine UCI 4-8
Pepperdine PEP
5-3
1
Final
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UC Irvine UCI
4-8
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Pepperdine PEP 25 21 21 24 (1)
UC Irvine UCI 13 25 25 26 (3)

Game Recap: Men's Volleyball | | by Athletic Communications

Men's Volleyball Drops Four-Set Contest at UC Irvine

MALIBU, California – Jaylen Jasper put down a season-high 23 kills but the #5 Pepperdine men's volleyball team's trip to UC Irvine came up empty as the Anteaters pulled out a 13-25, 25-21, 25-21, 26-24 victory on Friday evening.
 
The loss came despite the Waves (5-3) outhitting the Anteaters (4-8) .395 to .311 and outblocking them 8.0 to 4.5. Pepperdine had swept UC Irvine in Firestone Fieldhouse on Wednesday.
 
BIG WAVES
  • Graduate opposite Jaylen Jasper (Annapolis, Md./Stanford) became the first Wave this season to record 20+ kills. He hit .594 (23-4-32) and just missed a double-double with nine digs. He also had four block assists and two aces. Jasper recorded his 1,000th career kill during the fourth set (his first 917 kills came at Stanford).
  • Sophomore opposite Jacob Steele (Trabuco Canyon, Calif./El Toro HS) had 16 kills and hit .448 (16-3-29), while adding eight digs and three block assists.
  • Graduate outside hitter Spencer Wickens (Irondequoit, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit HS) provided 10 kills.
  • Sophomore setter Bryce Dvorak (Newport Beach, Calif./Corona del Mar HS) had 51 assists, four kills, four digs and two aces.
PLAY BY PLAY
 
Tied at eight in the first set, the Waves ran off five straight points, and then extended the run to 8-1, to go ahead 16-9. Steele had three kills and Jasper had two during this stretch. At 20-12, the Waves finished off the set on a 5-1 run, ending it on a Dvorak service ace.
 
UCI took the lead for good in set two at 6-4 and later extended the lead to 13-8. The Waves closed the gap to one point at 14-13 on a Jasper service ace, but the Anteaters would increase the lead back up to five at 20-15, and went on to even the match up at a set apiece.
 
UC Irvine was unstoppable in set three, hitting .600 with just one attack error. That didn't stop the Waves from getting out to an 8-5 lead after a Dvorak ace, and 10-6 on a Jasper kill. UCI would tie the set at 13, however. Pepperdine led 18-16, but the Anteaters ran off five straight points to go ahead 21-18. Senior outside hitter Ben Weinberg (Danville, Calif./San Ramon Valley HS) would come in and get a service ace to make it 21-20, but UCI scored the next three points and eventually went ahead 2-1.
 
The Waves led for the majority of the fourth set and went up by as many as five points at 16-11 after another Jasper ace. It was still a three-point lead at 23-20, and the Waves had two set points at 24-22 after a kill by Wickens. But UCI ended the match with a four-point run.
 
MATCH STATS 
  • PEPP hitting: .395 overall (.515 set one, .292 set two, .444 set three, .300 set four)
  • UCI hitting: .311 overall (.097 set one, .455 set two, .600 set three, .179 set four)
  • Service Aces: PEPP 6, UCI 7
  • Digs: PEPP 36, UCI 27
  • Blocks: PEPP 8.0, UCI 4.5
  • UC Irvine was led by Hilir Henno's 15 kills.
UP NEXT
 
The Waves begin Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play with two matches at Grand Canyon next weekend, Friday (Feb. 18) at 5 p.m. PT and Sunday (Feb. 20) at 1 p.m. PT.
 
 
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