{"id":286423,"date":"2026-04-26T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:40:07","slug":"long-beach-state-rallies-to-stun-hawaii-in-5-sets-for-big-west-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286423\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State rallies to stun Hawaii in 5 sets for Big West title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JOSHUA<\/p>\n

JOSHUA SUDOCK \/ SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER<\/p>\n

Hawaii\u2019s Tread Rosenthal and Ofeck Hazan attempt to block a swing by Long Beach State\u2019s Skyler Varga during the second set of tonight\u2019s Big West Championship final at Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif.<\/p>\n

IRVINE, Calif. >> Jackson Cryst served back-to-back aces to end the fourth set after Hawaii had five championship points and No. 2 seed Long Beach State pulled out a heart-stopping 20-25, 27-25, 22-25, 30-28, 15-11 win over the Rainbow Warriors to win the Outrigger Big West Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship tonight at Bren Events Center.<\/p>\n

Freshman opposite Wojciech Gajek finished with a match-high 27 kills and senior Skyler Varga added 16 kills for the Beach (24-4), who lost both regular-season matches to the \u2018Bows.<\/p>\n

Kristian Titriyski tied a season-high with 20 kills, Louis Sakanoko added 17 and Adrien Roure finished with 15 for Hawaii (27-5), which will find out its NCAA Tournament fate during the selection show on Sunday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Bows will likely be one of the five at-large teams selected to one of four regional sites to be determined.<\/p>\n

Ofeck Hazan had a career-high nine blocks and six kills playing for an injured Justin Todd, who was on crutches and in a boot on the UH bench.<\/p>\n

Hawaii hit .286 for the match. The Beach hit .321, including .500 in the fifth set.<\/p>\n

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Hawaii dropped to 4-2 in Big West tournament finals, losing for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOSHUA SUDOCK \/ SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Hawaii\u2019s Tread Rosenthal and Ofeck Hazan attempt to block a swing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14596,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-286423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-editors","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\/286423","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=286423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}