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USC Men's Volleyball Sweeps UC San Diego
March 17, 2007 | Men's Volleyball
March 17, 2007
C.J. Schellenberg had 13 kills and Juan Figueroa added 10 kills to lead the No. 13 USC men's volleyball team to a 30-24, 30-15, 30-26 win at UC San Diego in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match on Friday (March 16).
The Trojans, who have won 6 of their past 9 matches and 3 in a row, improved to 9-11 overall and 6-9 in the MPSF. UCSD fell to 5-16 and 2-13. The win avenged Troy's earlier-season loss to the Tritons, which was just the fifth time USC fell to them in the 34-match series.
USC outhit the Tritons, .450 to .067, and dominated the net by getting 19.5 blocks to UCSD's 2.5.
Schellenberg hit .500 and added 4 blocks, while Figueroa hit at a .471 clip and had 6 blocks. Andrew Vernon had a match-best 8 blocks, and both Hunter Current and Matt Pavlovich had 6 blocks. Jimmy Killian returned to the lineup after taking 2 matches off with an ankle sprain and dished out 38 assists.
For UCSD, Jason Spangler had 11 kills and 9 digs and Frank Fritsch had 10 kills.
USC next visits Long Beach State this Thursday (March 22) at 7 p.m.
