{"id":158092,"date":"2022-04-25T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158092"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:22:49","slug":"uh-mens-volleyball-capture-big-west-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/25\/uh-mens-volleyball-capture-big-west-title\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> men\u2019s volleyball <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> bound, capture Big West title"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-big-west-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-big-west-2022.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-big-west-2022-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-big-west-2022-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/splash.aspx?id=splash_326&#038;path=mvball\">men\u2019s volleyball team<\/a> captured its second Big West Championship tournament title with a grueling straight-set sweep over rival Long Beach State on Saturday, April 23, in front of a raucous crowd of 6,636 at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. Set scores were 27-25, 28-26, 25-23.<\/p>\n<p>In a rematch of the 2019 final, the second-seeded Rainbow Warriors (24-5) claimed the title and the league\u2019s automatic berth into the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championship where <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> will <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/4\/24\/mens-volleyball-mens-volleyball-will-make-eighth-ncaa-tourney-appearance.aspx\">face either Princeton or North Greenville in an opening round match<\/a>, Tuesday, May 3, at 4:30 p.m. (<abbr title=\"Hawaii standard time\">HST<\/abbr>) at <abbr title=\"University of California, Los Angeles\">UCLA<\/abbr>\u2019s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Most Valuable Player <strong>Jakob Thelle<\/strong> directed <abbr>UH<\/abbr> to a .368 hitting percentage for the match, including .452 in the third set. The Tonsberg, Norway native dished out 43 assists and added 11 digs for his second double-double of the season. <strong>Dimitrios Mouchlias<\/strong> and <strong>Spyros Chakas<\/strong> each tallied 16 kills for the Warriors, which also received a boost from <strong>Chaz Galloway<\/strong> (7 kills, 5 digs) and <strong>Guilherme Voss<\/strong> (7 kills, 5 blocks).<\/p>\n<p>The win capped a perfect home season (18-0) for <abbr>UH<\/abbr>, and avenged two losses to the Beach earlier this month in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the game visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/4\/23\/mens-volleyball-mens-volleyball-sweeps-beach-for-big-west-championship.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_70681\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrIWtJPjl6k?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Sights &amp; Sounds Big West Championship\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> will face either Princeton or North Greenville in an <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> opening round match on May 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,911,9,550,56,80],"class_list":["post-158092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158095,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158092\/revisions\/158095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}