Hawaii sophomore opposite hitter Kristian Titriyski, who made his first start in more than two months, delivered the game-clinching kill in the fifth set to give him a team-high 13 to lead No. 3 Hawaii to a 26-24, 23-25, 25-19, 20-25, 15-12 win over No. 2 Long Beach State tonight at LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n
Hawaii (18-3, 1-0 Big West) began conference play with its first win over the Beach (14-3, 0-1) in 11 years inside of the Pyramid.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Warriors snapped an eight-match road losing streak to Long Beach State in regular-season play.<\/p>\n
Junior setter Tread Rosenthal finished the match despite being in serious discomfort after what looked like cramps in the final two sets.<\/p>\n
He had a team-high 35 assists, seven kills and five blocks.<\/p>\n
Louis Sakanoko hit .500 with eight kills for UH before leaving the match in the third set after an apparent injury. Sakanoko, who received a red card earlier in the set for complaining to an official, also had four digs.<\/p>\n
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Adrien Roure added seven kills and Finn Kearney had five kills after taking over for Sakanoko at outside hitter.<\/p>\n
Hawaii hit .288 in the match and finished with 17 less total kills than the Beach, who had 64 and hit .259.<\/p>\n
Wojciech Gajek led Long Beach State with 22 kills but also was dealing with cramps late in the match.<\/p>\n
The Beach committed 28 attack errors and 26 service errors and was outblocked 12.5-7.5.<\/p>\n
The two teams will play again on Saturday night at 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawaii sophomore opposite hitter Kristian Titriyski, who made his first start in more than two months, delivered the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-229714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}