BYU beats Concordia and advances to MPSF event semifinals. Matthew Norton, BYU photograph
BYU improved in each set in its 3-1 victory over seventh-seed Concordia Wednesday afternoon, advancing to the MPSF event semifinals with its win over the Golden Eagles.
The No. 2 seed Cougars defeated Concordia on set scores of 20-25, 25-23, 25-18, and 25-15.
As soon as BYU received in its groove, the Cougars proved to be an excessive amount of for his or her opponent, outpacing the Golden Eagles by 19 factors over the ultimate three units.
The 2 faculties had met twice in March, taking part in to an identical end result with BYU besting Concordia in California on each events. Wednesday’s win extends the Cougars’ unbeaten streak in conferences with the Golden Eagles to 9 consecutive matches.
The victory additionally pushes BYU to 9 wins in a row this season, the college’s final defeat coming originally of March in opposition to Grand Canyon.
Concordia falls to 8-19 on the 12 months, shedding its closing 4 matches to shut out the season. Nevertheless, the Golden Eagles gave BYU every thing it might deal with for the higher a part of the primary two units.
After dropping the preliminary set, the Cougars started to take cost of the match, eking out a two-point victory within the subsequent sport earlier than placing on dominant performances from there to shut out Concordia.
“Props to our guys for staying in it and rebounding after that loss within the first set,” BYU coach Shawn Olmstead stated. “Our service stress improved within the final two units and turned issues in our favor for us to complete off these closing units faster.”
The Cougars ended the competition with 10 service aces, eight of which got here within the third and fourth units. 4 completely different gamers made their means into that a part of the stat sheet. Freshman exterior hitter Trent Moser gave the Provo college a match excessive 5 aces off the bench. Moser’s 5 aces is essentially the most by a BYU participant this season.
Junior reverse hitter Kupono Browne led the Cougars in kills, the fourth time in BYU’s final 5 matches that has occurred, ending the afternoon with 20 kills on a whopping .571 kill proportion. He rounded out his spectacular efficiency with two blocks and three aces. Sophomore exterior hitter Miks Ramanis added 11 kills and 4 blocks for the Cougars.
BYU will play once more Thursday within the event’s semifinal spherical starting at 8:05 p.m. MDT.