USC Men's Volleyball Upsets No. 9 Pacific

[cyberVBmidwest]

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Trojans have won 3 of their last 4 matches.

Feb. 25, 2007
Juan Figueroa had 23 kills, 7 digs and 4 blocks and teammate C.J. Schellenberg added 14 kills and 4 blocks to help the No. 14 ranked USC men's volleyball team upset No. 9 Pacific, 30-21, 30-21, 20-30, 30-26, in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match on Sunday (Feb. 25) in USC's Galen Center.

USC-which has won 3 of its past 4 matches- improved to 6-9 overall and 5-7 in the MPSF, while Pacific dropped to 8-9 and 6-7.

Figueroa hit .405. Teammate Matt Pavlovich started for the first time this season and added 12 kills (hitting .391) and 5 blocks, while Matt Mosko returned to the starting lineup for the first time since Jan. 17 and posted a career-best 9 blocks and 3 aces, both match highs. Jimmy Killian had 6 blocks and 6 digs.

For Pacific, Pekka Seppanen had 20 kills (hitting .429), 5 blocks and 4 digs.

USC outhit the Tigers, .288 to .145, and had more blocks, 19.0 to 13.5.

With the first game tied at 8-8, USC went on a 7-0 run and was never threatened as it hit .636 to Pacific's .091. USC broke a 15-15 tie in the second game with consecutive points and then scored the game's final 7 points. The tables turned in the third game as Pacific made major lineup changes and pulled ahead to stay after running off 3 straight points at 12-12 (the Tigers hit .381 in that game to USC's .000). In the final game, USC scored 3 unanswered points to open up a 22-19 lead and carried that edge to finish out the match.

USC next hosts No. 4 BYU in back-to-back MPSF matches on Friday (March 2) and Saturday (March 3), both at 7 p.m. in the Galen Center.



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[sexy]

good to see figgy is back for usc -- wow thats a hot looking guy!!

[bigfan]

Big win for USC....now lets hope they win at least one game from BYU in this week-ends two match set.

[CityTechLegend]

Is this really an UPSET though???

SC has a bigger volleyball tradition than UoP and they do have a great coach in Fuergison so why do people think this is an upset???

SC has been playing better and harder the past few weeks and they have shown glimmers of greatness against the best in the MPSF. To say this is an UPSET just because UoP is RAnked this year doesn't really make any sense. If it were Mercyhurst defeating UoP then that would be an UPSET not USC. They are a good team that is starting to play up to their POTENTIAL.

[Mac]

When a lower ranked team beats a higher ranked team it is usually considered an upset. Has nothing to do with tradition. I thought UoP was a more talented team than SC. Both teams seem to be playing very inconsistently, getting up for some opponents and not for others. But the raw talent is there on both.