Long Beach State Sports : UCLA Touch No Touch

UCI won a challenge when the score of set 5 was 15-13, two UCLA middle blockers went up to block a high kill and from one angle going around IG it clearly looks like a no touch, which begs the question what angle did the refs had that would have conclusively shown a touch? They have many angles but I'd like to see the conclusive angle. May never happen.

Score reverted to 14-14, and UCI got the next two points. UCLA had 22 service errors. They had their chances to win and blew it! Couldn't have happened to a more deserving program, you know its karma baby sometimes the universe balances out in strange ways

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I need remedial English

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He was at the Pyramid sitting with exited Acting President Andy Jones. Acker and his wife were down there too for a while. I didn't see BS (Bobby Smitheran) but it doesn't mean he wasn't there.

Hey President Blanchard, please support MVB its the last chance we ever will have for national championships, that window might close fast or we may have a handful of years to compete...give em love Lauren!

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Gets by USC in the 4th 32-30.

We get Hawaii again, again at a nuetral site where we are 1-0 against them this season. 0-2 at home. Go figure.

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Was up nicely in set 4 ready to close out USC, now it says 23-23...Not sure who I want, an unknown USC that has uber talent but questionable coaching, or the known villian who probably wants to kick our a$$e$ after we snatched the BWT from their poi stained paws.

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And UCLA loses at home to UCI in five! More on that I need to watch that match I hear the end was a doozy.

Beach was strong an overpowered a very tall Loyola team that had 3 very heavy hitters 25-21, 25-21, 25-19. They threw down some tough servive pressure on us which we mostly handled well and I was glad to see the pressure it gets us ready for the next round. Like what I saw the previous night vs St. Francis, Loyola is just missing something, although the 3rd set was close for a while and Loyola looked better until the last 5 to 7 points, when LB just upped its game and closed it out.

Beach block was solid, serving maybe the best all season only 8 service errors to go with 8 aces! Unheard of!

Varga set the tone, Gajek did well but wasn't as dominant as his last match, Bloom got his but struggled a little, the middles did what they do, Cryst is a force serving, he huffs puffs and grimaces his way to 3 aces.

The passing was good given Loyola's pressure although they had 17 errors which pretty much killed em. They outblocked us but sheez they have a 7-2 middle never seen that and he was pretty effective.

All right we await the winner of Hawaii and USC probably will be Hawaii but USC is good. UCI plays Ball State on Saturday, who took out Pepperdine 3-2.

UCLA losing means we go from a slight chance of repeating as national champs to a decent chance. We might even move up to #1 in the rankings but who cares, we just need to win the semis vs whoever then focus on the natty. Anyone can win any night, UCI proved that.

GO BEACH!!!