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Hawaii men’s volleyball: Warriors practice Friday, earn 5 awards from OffTheBlock

By Cindy Luis on May 3, 2019

Looking up at the Pyramid ceiling Christine Worsley with her sons’ dog, Kai Hawaii has practice from 11 a.m. -12:30. Press conference at 12:45 That’s 8 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. HST Go to Tournament Central at LongBeachState.com for a live stream of the press conference. ____ The Warriors picked up five awards from OffTheBlock.com on Friday and took second for two others. For the complete release click here. Lloyd Ball/Best Setter: Joe Worsley Bryan Ive/Best Opposite: Rado Parapunov Erik Shoji/Best […]

NCAA men’s volleyball: Final Long Beach State 3, Pepperdine 1

By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2019

Only going to update with set scores and final leaders Watch here Live stats here Set 1 goes to Long Beach State 25-20 Set 2 to Pepperdine 25-21 on an ace by Kaleb Denmark. Set 3 a very convincing 25-16 win by the 49ers. Beach finishes 25-15

NCAA men’s volleyball: Final, Hawaii 3, Lewis 1

By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2019

Recapping Junior hitter Colton Cowell put down 15 kills and top-seeded Hawaii used 10 aces to eliminate Lewis 25-15, 25-17, 30-32, 25-16 in today’s NCAA men’s volleyball semifinal at the Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State. Senior hitter Stijn van Tilburg and junior opposite Rado Parapunov added 11 kills apiece for the Warriors (28-2), setting a program record in a single-season win. Junior middle Patrick Gasman was in on eight of the Rainbow Warriors’ 14 blocks with eight kills and […]

NCAA men’s volleyball: Links for Thursday’s semifinal matches

By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2019

Everything you need to know about the tournament is available here at Tournament Center. This includes video links for postgame press conferences. Specifically for Hawaii-Lewis match, 2 p.m. HST View online at here Also available at BigWest.tv Radio: 1420-AM/92.7-FM Listen online here Live stats click here Hawaii leads the series 7-1 over Lewis at the Stan Sheriff Center. Only time Flyers won was in 2012, 3-2. Overall, Hawaii leads 15-2.

Hawaii men’s volleyball: NCAA banquet pictures, Beach’s TJ DeFalco again Player of the Year

By Cindy Luis on May 1, 2019

Long Beach State senior TJ DeFalco was named the AVCA Player of the Year, his second in three seasons. He is the fourth player in Division I-II men’s history to win the honor twice. Jeff Nygaard: UCLA, George Roumain: Pepperdine, Costas Theocharidis: Hawaii are the others. It is the third consecutive season the award has gone to Long Beach State (first time in history) DeFalco is one of three players to be a four-time AVCA First-Team All-American (Costas Theocharidis: Hawaii […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Warriors practice at Pyramid; Charlie Wade, players speak at press conference

By Cindy Luis on May 1, 2019

Hawaii had a practice Tuesday night at the Gold Mine (West Gym) of Long Beach State. First official practice in the Pyramid this morning at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time. UH faces Lewis in the NCAA semifinals at 2 p.m. Hawaii time on Thursday. #HawaiiMVB gets some work in at The Pyramid on Wednesday morning, preparing for Thursday’s semifinal against Lewis. pic.twitter.com/ZbB7nuMZxW — Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) May 1, 2019 Here are clips of the Q&A from the team press conference. […]

NCAA men’s volleyball: Lewis defeats USC, faces Hawaii Thursday; Pepperdine survives, faces the Beach

By Cindy Luis on April 30, 2019

Tournament central links with all sorts of info click here Pepperdine vs. Princeton Pepperdine wins 15-8. Will face Long Beach State in Thursday’s second semi Tigers take Set 4 25-22 Waves win Set 3 25-16. Waves take first set 25-23, Tigers take Set 2 25-19. live stats click here USC vs. Lewis Set 4: Lewis wins 25-23. 7:18: Lewis with its 18th block. Flyers win 25-23. 7:13: Momentum has shifted. SC up 22-10. TO Lewis. 7:10: crucial challenge won by […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Program-record 5 named All-Americans

By Cindy Luis on April 29, 2019

Congratulations to the Rainbow Warriors on their bounty of All-America selections. Hawaii senior hitter Stijn van Tilburg was named to the AVCA All-America first team for a third time and the top-ranked Rainbow Warriors had a program-record five players selected, the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced today. Joining Van Tilburg on the 10-member first team were senior setter Joe Worsley, junior opposite Rado Parapunov and sophomore libero Gage Worsley. Junior middle Patrick Gasman was named to the 10-member second team. […]