Warriors senior Rasay’s
first start sets the scene
for a sweep

Hawaii needs just 87 minutes to
cruise past host UC San Diego
30-28, 30-26, 30-27

This road trip ended better than it started.

Much better.

Behind the setting of senior Daniel Rasay, making his first start of the season, the Hawaii volleyball team swept UC San Diego 30-28, 30-26, 30-27 last night at RIMAC Arena. The sixth-ranked Warriors needed just 87 minutes to defeat the Tritons for the 33rd consecutive time and improve to 15-6 overall, 11-5 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

UCSD, getting 13 kills each from Adam Toren and Luke Honnette, fell to 1-19, 0-16.

Senior hitter Pedro Azenha led Hawaii with 18 kills, hitting .469 and had two of the team's aces. Freshman middle Kyle Klinger and sophomore hitter Lauri Hakala added nine kills apiece as the Warriors moved into a third-place tie with next week's opponent, UC Santa Barbara (13-8, 11-5).

Hawaii finished the 10-day road trip 2-2 and "it seems like it was 60 days," Warrior coach Mike Wilton said. "It will be good to be back home."

The Warriors got some help last night in their quest to stay a top-four seed in the upcoming MPSF tournament. Long Beach State stunned BYU 40-38, 30-25, 30-27 in Provo. Hawaii was swept by the host Cougars twice last week.

"That's very good for the Warriors," Wilton said.

Wilton was happier about being able to use Rasay, who had played sparingly, mostly as a designated server.

"Of anybody we had on this road trip, I wanted to play Danny the most," Wilton said. "He set a good match.

"Azenha had a good night and Kyle was hitting 1.000 until late in Game 3. And Mau (LaBarre) did pretty well."

LaBarre was in on six of the team's 9.5 blocks.

The Warriors had 13 service errors -- 10 in the first two games combined -- which kept the Tritons closer than Hawaii would have liked. But the bigger scare came in Game 3 when Warrior junior hitter Jose Delgado hurt his ribs when he chased down a ball and landed in the bleachers.

"It hurts for him to breathe," Wilton said. "We probably won't find out how he is until we get back."

Not playing for a second match was junior hitter Matt Bender, who has been weakened by a bout with the flu.

"San Diego played a lot better tonight (than Hawaii's 3-0 victory Wednesday)," Wilton said. "What we learned from tonight is we always have to come ready to play. San Diego is always extremely well prepared and we played well enough to win."

Note: Host UC Santa Barbara lost to defending NAIA champion Cal Baptist last night 30-26, 30-24, 22-30, 30-21. ... UC San Diego's only win of the season came against Cal Baptist, 3-2.

MPSF standings

	Conference			Overall
	W	L	Pct.	W	L
Pepperdine	16	1	.941	16	1
UCLA	13	3	.813	20	3
UCSB	11	5	.688	13	8
Hawaii	11	5	.688	15	6
BYU	9	5	.643	14	7
Long Beach State	8	6	.571	14	7
Stanford	7	7	.500	8	9
CS Northridge	7	9	.438	11	10
Pacific	6	10	.375	12	12
UC Irvine	4	12	.250	6	17
USC	3	14	.176	6	18
UC San Diego	0	16	.000	1	19

Yesterday
Hawaii def. UC San Diego, 30-22, 30-23, 30-22
Tomorrow
Hawaii at UC San Diego
Long Beach State at Brigham Young
Stanford at Pepperdine
Cal Baptist at UC Santa Barbara
CS Northridge at IPFW

Hawaii def. UC San Diego

30-28, 30-26, 30-27

Warriors (15-6, 11-5 mpsf)
	g	k	e	att	pct.	bs	ba	d
Klinger	3	9	2	12	.583	0	2	0
Hakala	3	9	3	20	.300	1	2	2
Carere	2	3	0	3	1.000	0	1	1
Azenha	3	18	3	32	.469	0	3	4
La Barre	3	6	3	15	.200	0	6	2
Rasay	3	0	0	0	.000	0	1	4
Delgado	2	6	4	16	.125	0	2	7
Reft	3	0	0	1	.000	0	0	9
Totals	3	51	15	99	.364	1	17	29
Titans (1-19, 0-16 MPSF)
	g	k	e	att	pct.	bs	ba	d
Hardy	3	9	3	25	.240	0	1	3
Rusch	3	7	3	12	.333	0	1	1
Toren	3	13	1	19	.632	0	0	3
Honnette	3	13	7	31	.194	0	2	3
Dierdorff	3	0	2	3	-.667	0	0	3
Smith	3	2	3	10	-.100	0	2	3
Tai	3	0	0	0	.000	0	0	13
Sexton	2	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0
Bowe	2	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0
Sayers	1	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0
Totals	3	44	19	100	.250	0	6	29

Key -- g: games; k: kills; e: hitting errors; att: attempts; pct.: hitting percentage; bs: block solos; ba: block assists; d: digs.
Aces -- Hawaii (4): Azenha 2, Klinger, Rasay. UCSD (6): Toren 2, Dierdorff, Hardy, Honnette, Rusch. Assists -- Hawaii (46): Rasay 46. UCSD (41): Dierdorff 40, Toren.
T -- 1:27. Officials -- Jesse Martinez, Patsy Malta. A -- 311.