Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More. The No. For the second straight day, UH overcame a hostile sellout crowd at the 5,seat Smith Fieldhouse, this time dispatching the Cougars in four β , , , β on Saturday night to improve to on the season. And it was the first time that UH ever won both matches of a two-game set against its former longtime conference foe in Provo; UH improved to all-time there.
Aloha Ball in Provo! Wade, who guided the program to national championships in and , downplayed the milestone in a postgame video call with Hawaii media. It was a nice win tonight. In terms of the wins, the only thing I want is Sophomore hitter Louis Sakanoko made his first start of the season in place of an ailing Clay Wieter and delivered 13 kills on 27 swings. Opposite Kristian Titriyski supplied a match-high 17 kills with nine errors to hit. Ex-UH hitter Keoni Thiim was held in check for much of the match as he hit in the negative through two sets.
He finished with 14 kills against nine attack errors on 33 swings. The dangerous server had one ace against three service errors. Thiim, who was open in talking about his friction with the UH coaching staff after he left, had circled the matches against UH in his final season of college volleyball.
Wade acknowledged there was some familiarity in defending against Thiim, an undersized but explosive player who leads the Cougars in total swings on the season. You just get in front of him, go up and be big.
Both the guys blocking for us on the right side can put a nice-sized block up there. The Cougars led in the fourth when UH made its match-winning push to win seven of the last nine points. UH heads home and will prepare to host No.
