VBelo Daily: March 06, 2025

Long Beach handles CSUN in their Big West opener. meanwhile, NGU gets revenge on Barry.

North Greenville had a solid bounce-back win against Barry. (NGU Athletics)

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Yesterday's Scores

Big West

#1 Long Beach (85%) def. #7 CSU Northridge (15%)
3-0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-20)

SIAC

Edward Waters (36%) def. Benedict (64%)
3-2 (15-25, 22-25, 25-15, 25-20, 16-14)

Non-conference

Thomas More (60%) def. Central State (40%)
3-0 (33-31, 25-23, 25-23)

Tusculum (88%) def. Lees-McRae (12%)
3-1 (25-20, 25-20, 24-26, 25-17)

Deklan Wingo (Tusculum) casually added 19 kills (.429%) and 6 aces to his incredible season.

#18 Lincoln Memorial (97%) def. King (3%)
3-0 (25-12, 25-17, 25-16)

LMU continues their terrific season while hitting .467% and keeping King to only -.069%.

Saint Francis (71%) def. Erskine (29%)
3-1 (22-25, 25-14, 25-17, 25-18)

North Greenville (61%) def. Barry (39%)
3-1 (25-21, 25-18, 23-25, 25-20)

#11 McKendree (86%) def. Maryville (14%)
3-1 (27-25, 25-16, 22-25, 25-14)

McKendree leads the nation in digs per set (10.63) and yesterday they had 3 players with double-digit digs! Defense wins championships.

Vanguard (72%) def. Olivet (28%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-12, 25-21)

#13 UC San Diego (95%) def. Sacred Heart (5%)
3-0 (25-20, 25-22, 25-22)

#3 Hawai'i (94%) def. Lindenwood (6%)
3-0 (25-13, 25-20, 27-25)

Hawai’i had ZERO hitting errors in Set 1 and hit .778 in that set. I guess they still had something left in the tank from playing UC Irvine.

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Today's Match Projections

MPSF

#10 Stanford (7%) vs #2 UCLA (93%)

Non-conference

Life (39%) vs Benedict (61%)

#14 Lewis (98%) vs Emmanuel (2%)

Jessup (29%) vs Concordia (71%)