COLUMBUS, Ohio >> No. 2 seed Hawaii saw its season come to an end in the semifinals of the NCAA Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship tonight at the Covelli Center.<\/p>\n
Two-time defending champion and third seed UCLA dominated most of a 25-14, 25-23, 25-22 sweep of the Rainbow Warriors to advance to Monday\u2019s national final against No. 1 seed Long Beach State.<\/p>\n
Sean Kelly had 13 kills and Zach Rama added 10 for the Bruins (22-6), who have never lost to UH in the NCAA Tournament and kept Monday from being an all-Big West final.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Warriors offered little resistance against the Bruins, who finished runner-up in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.<\/p>\n
The two teams to earn at-large berths into the tournament are the ones in Monday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
UCLA hit .370 in the match, while Hawaii finished with a .188 hitting percentage. The Bruins outblocked the \u2018Bows 10-4, outdug Hawaii 34-22 and had six service aces to UH\u2019s three.<\/p>\n
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Adrien Roure had a team-high 12 kills with two aces and hit .333 to lead Hawaii offensively.<\/p>\n
Louis Sakanoko, who started the match at outside hitter and played in two sets, had one kill and hit .000.<\/p>\n
UH had 30 total kills.<\/p>\n
The 27 wins for Hawaii tie the third most in a season in program history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio >> No. 2 seed Hawaii saw its season come to an end in the semifinals of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,8106,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-24517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-editors","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114486887457963895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}