{"id":308635,"date":"2026-05-10T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308635\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:36:10","slug":"hawaii-advances-to-ncaa-final-by-beating-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308635\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii advances to NCAA final by beating Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <img width=\"760\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/web1_0273.HSA.MensVBall.05092026_JS--1-.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid h-100 w-100\" alt=\"JOSHUA SUDOCK \/ SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER&#10;                                Hawaii outside hitter Adrien Roure went for a kill in Saturday\u0092s NCAA national semifinal match against Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.\" style=\"max-height:600px;object-fit:contain;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>JOSHUA SUDOCK \/ SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii outside hitter Adrien Roure went for a kill in Saturday\u2019s NCAA national semifinal match against Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &gt;&gt; Kristian Titriyski put down his match-high 14th kill on Hawaii\u2019s second match point and the second-seeded Rainbow Warriors will play for a national championship on Monday after defeating Long Beach State 25-15, 18-25, 25-21, 25-22 this evening at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Sakanoko added 12 kills and five digs and Adrien Roure had 10 kills to put three UH players in double figures in kills.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Todd, who missed Hawaii\u2019s five-set loss to the Beach in the Big West tournament final two weeks ago, had a career-high 10 blocks and four kills.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii (29-5) advances to play UC Irvine on Monday at 1 p.m. in the final of the National Collegiate Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>UH beat Long Beach State (25-5) three out of four meetings this year.<\/p>\n<p>Skyler Varga had 13 kills and Wojciech Gajek had 11 on .071 hitting for the Beach.<\/p>\n<p>                        Don&#8217;t miss out on what&#8217;s happening!<\/p>\n<p class=\"email-form-blurb m-0\">Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It&#8217;s FREE!<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii is 3-3 all-time in the national final. One of those wins was later vacated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOSHUA SUDOCK \/ SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Hawaii outside hitter Adrien Roure went for a kill in Saturday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-308635","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\/308635","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=308635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}