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STANFORD, Calif. – The University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team put up a fight but the outcome was still the same as No. 6 Stanford swept the two-match Mountain Pacific Sports Federation series with a four-set win, Saturday, at Maples Pavilion. Set scores were 25-17, 18-25, 28-26, 25-15.
 
The Rainbow Warriors (9-4, 4-4 MPSF), who lost to the Cardinal in straight sets on Friday, dropped their third straight match and 10^th in the last 11 all-time meetings at Stanford since 2008. UH's four-match road trip continues with a two-match MPSF series at USC, Monday and Tuesday at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, Calif.
 
Outside hitter Kupono Fey led UH with a season-high 17 kills, two shy of his career-best. The junior, who also recorded seven digs and three blocks, hit .483 and didn't record his first error until late in the third set.
 
After a season-low two kills on Friday, freshman opposite Stijn van Tilburg recorded 15 kills and six digs. Senior outside hitter Sinisa Zarkovic added 11 kills and seven digs. Freshman setter Joe Worsley had his most significant action of the season and finished with 39 assists.
 
Stanford's Gabriel Vega tied Fey for match-high honors with 17 kills while Madison Hayden added 15. The Cardinal hit .348 for the match and out-blocked the Warriors 13-to-8.5.
 
The Cardinal doubled up the Warriors 10-5 early in Set 1 and stretched their lead to 13-6 after consecutive hitting errors by van Tilburg and Zarkovic. But UH's block came alive midway through the set as the Warriors put up three stuffs to pull within 15-12. UH got as close as two before the Cardinal pulled away with three straight for a 20-15 lead. UH hit .000 in the set primarily due to Stanford's big block which posted three straight late in the period to the put the game out of reach.
 
With Worsley taking over setting duties in Set 2, the Warriors jumped out to a 7-2 lead with five kills in their first six attempts. Fey and van Tilburg took over with five kills during a 6-0 run, helping UH extend its lead to 17-9. Hawai'i led by as much as nine before finishing off the Cardinal 25-18 to tie the match at 1-1. van Tilburg and Fey each posted six kills in the set and the Warriors hit .607.
 
The Warriors fell behind 6-1 to start Set 3 and 13-7 before slowly chipping away at the lead. Zarkovic tallied seven kills in the set as UH tied it at 22 and fended off two set points. Zarkovic went back-to-back, giving the Warriors set point a 26-25 but the Cardinal scored the final three points, capped by Madison Hayden's ace.
 
Stanford used three early blocks to jump out to a 10-4 lead in Set 4. The Warriors trailed 13-5 after the Cardinal's fourth block and would not get closer than five the rest of the way. Stanford recorded six blocks in the frame and limited UH to .029 hitting.