Belmont Abbey and Erskine have been the winners because the Convention Carolinas match received underway and heads into Tuesday’s quarterfinals.
Eighth-ranked Pepperdine swept visiting No. 12 Stanford within the MPSF on Thursday.
Friday, as groups jockey for match seeding, there are key matches within the MPSF, Huge West and EIVA. The MIVA begins its match Saturday.
The MPSF heads into its ultimate regular-season weekend with top-ranked UCLA, which has already received the top-spot in subsequent week’s convention match, at BYU. Fifth-ranked USC goes to No. 9 Grand Canyon and No. 6 UC Santa Barbara is at Concordia Irvine.
There are two Huge West matches Friday when No. 3 Lengthy Seashore State is house for CSUN and No. 4 Hawai’i goes to No. 14 UC Irvine.
Within the EIVA, No. 2 Penn State is at Charleston, St. Francis Brooklyn goes to NJIT, Sacred Coronary heart is at Princeton, and Harvard is at George Mason.
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CONFERENCE CAROLINAS — The league will get one of many 5 computerized NCAA bids. Erskine will play Emmanuel on Tuesday, whereas Belmont Abbey will get Mount Olive. North Greenville and King await the winners within the semifinals.
Sixth-seeded Belmont Abbey (15-15) beat seventh-seeded Lees-McRae (8-15) 25-13, 25-12, 23-25, 25-15 as Matteo Miselli had 22 kills, hit .486, and had an help, three aces, six blocks and three digs. Belmont Abbey had a school-record 20 blocks, 14 by Kyle Ferguson. Two of his have been solos and he had 9 kills with one error in 16 assaults to go together with an help, an ace and two digs. Belmont Abbey his .360 and had eight aces and 15 errors. Michael Marsans led Lees-McRae with 10 kills. L-M hit .059 and had two aces and 17 errors …
Fifth-seeded Erskine (13-17) put an finish to a depressing season for Barton (0-20) 25-18, 25-14, 25-19. Austin Edgerrin led with 16 kills as he hit .310 and had a block and 7 digs. Jason Corridor had 11 kills, hit .389, and had an help, 4 aces, two blocks and three digs. Kacper Rybarczyk had 10 kills with one error in 18 assaults, two assists, an ace, a block and 7 digs. Erskine hit .427 and had six aces and eight errors. Barton hit .195 and had two aces and 12 errors.
PEPPERDINE TOPS STANFORD — Pepperdine (15-9, 6-5) received its MPSF match over visiting Stanford (12-12, 4-7) 25-18, 25-19, 25-19, because the Waves hit .419 and had seven aces and 12 errors. Bryce Dvorak had 4 of these aces to go together with a kill, 34 assists, three digs and two blocks, one solo. Alex Gettinger had 15 kills, hit .500, and had an help, a block and 7 digs. Stanford, which hit .259 and had two aces and 16 errors, received 9 kills from Will Rottman.
