Lucas Yoder and Gianluca Grasso combined for 53 kills to help the USC men’s volleyball team snap a 5-match losing streak and upset No. 7 UC Irvine, 25-23, 40-42, 25-23, 25-23, in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match on Friday in Irvine.
Category: University of California, Irvine
First-place UC Irvine proving coach Russ Turner correct
Russ Turner thought his UC Irvine basketball team had the goods to be a contender in the Big West Conference. The seventh-year head coach said so before the season began, even though he had lost all but one starter off this past season’s team that was regular-season co-champion.
Huggins, Jones lead New Mexico St past UC Irvine, 85-79, OT
Braxton Huggins scored eight of his 24 points in overtime, Jemerrio Jones and Eli Chuha each had double-doubles and New Mexico state beat UC Irvine 85-79 in overtime on Monday night. Jones sandwiched two buckets around back-to-back 3-pointers by Huggins to give New Mexico State an 82-74 lead with 34 seconds to play.