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STOCKTON, Calif. - No. 3 Hawai`i won its 12th straight match sweeping The University of the Pacific tonight 30-27, 30-19, 30-23 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match at the Spanos Center.
Hawai`i improves to 16-4 and 12-3 in the MPSF, while Pacific falls to 7-14 and 5-10.
Highlighting the sweep was libero Alfred Reft recording four digs and becoming the UH all-time leader in the statistical category. Reft needed only three digs to surpass former Warrior Allen Allen (1986-89) who had 739. Reft is now at 740 and counting.
Jose Delgado and Dio Dante led the offensive charge slamming down 10 kills apiece as UH hit a whopping .369 collectively.
UH limited the Tigers to only .160 hitting, led by Brian Adamson's 15 kills.
Pacific led early in Game 1 8-5 and 11-8, but UH rallied tying it up at 16 and took the lead for good on the very next point on a UOP hitting error. UH went up by as many as four (25-21) before closing out the game, 30-27.
Games two and three were all UH. Hawai`i jumped out to leads of 5-0 and 10-3 before cruising on to a 30-19 victory in game one. It was much the same in game two as the Warriors scored the first four points and extended its lead to seven (16-9) which they maintained the rest of the way.
The two teams have Sunday off and finish off the two-match series on Monday at 7:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. HST).