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block vs. UC Irvine
Martin A. Folb
Andersen Fuller and Spencer Wickens
0
UC Irvine UCI 3-8
3
Winner Pepperdine PEP 5-2
UC Irvine UCI
3-8
0
Final
3
Pepperdine PEP
5-2
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
UC Irvine UCI 21 17 25 (0)
Pepperdine PEP 25 25 27 (3)

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

#5 Men's Volleyball Beats UCI in Three

MALIBU, California – The #5 Pepperdine men's volleyball team blocked and served its way to a three-set sweep over UC Irvine, 25-21, 25-17, 27-25, on Wednesday night in Firestone Fieldhouse.
 
The Waves (5-2) had a season-high 15.0 blocks and posted six aces against just seven service errors versus the Anteaters (3-8).
 
BIG WAVES
  • Graduate opposite Jaylen Jasper (Annapolis, Md./Stanford) had a team-high 11 kills on .500 hitting (11-3-16) and tied the team high with eight block assists.
  • Graduate middle blocker Austin Wilmot (Valley Village, Calif./Crespi Carmelite HS/UC Irvine) had five kills against his former school and matched Jasper with eight block assists.
  • Sophomore middle blocker Andersen Fuller (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius HS) had five kills and five block assists.
  • Sophomore setter Bryce Dvorak (Newport Beach, Calif./Corona del Mar HS) handed out 26 assists and had five digs and two aces.
  • Sophomore libero Trey Cole (Long Island, N.Y./Connetquot HS) had a match-high six digs.
PLAY BY PLAY
 
The Waves led the first set 15-13 at the media timeout, but the Anteaters came out of the break with five straight points. It was still a three-point UCI lead at 20-17 when the Waves then ran off seven consecutive points. Three were on blocks, all of which involved Fuller, and Wilmot finished off the run with an ace. After a UCI point, Fuller ended the first set with a kill.
 
With an 8-6 lead in the second set, Pepperdine went on a 9-1 run to go up by 10 at 17-7. Dvorak had an ace and Wilmot was in on two blocks. UCI got no closer than five the rest of the way and the set eventually ended on a Jasper's fifth kill of the set.
 
The third set was the most competitive, with 15 ties and five lead changes. The biggest lead of the set for either side was three points when Pepperdine went up 8-5 on a block by Jasper and Wilmot. Tied at 22, UCI's Francesco Sani got a kill and then his team's only ace of the night to give the Anteaters two set points. After a service error, Wilmot and graduate outside hitter Spencer Wickens (Irondequoit, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit HS) got a block to tie things up at 24, and the Waves scored again to get their first match point at 25-24. After a UCI kill, the Waves ended it on a Wickens kill and a block by Wilmot and Jasper.
 
MATCH STATS
  • PEPP hitting: .260 overall (.111 set one, .450 set two, .267 set three)
  • UCI hitting: .193 overall (.207 set one, .103 set two, .280 set three)
  • Service Aces: PEPP 6, UCI 1
  • Digs: PEPP 20, UCI 15
  • Blocks: PEPP 15.0, UCI 11.0
  • UC Irvine was led by Hilir Henno's 13 kills.
UP NEXT
 
The Waves and Anteaters meet again on Friday (Feb. 11) in Irvine at 7 p.m. The match will be streamed on ESPN+.
 

 
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