HONOLULU – The second-ranked University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team extended its NCAA-record set win streak to 48 following a sweep of No. 12 CSUN Friday, in the first of two Big West Conference matches at the Stan Sheriff Center. Set scores were 25-23, 25-16, 25-17.
 
The teams play again on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
 
UH (16-0, 3-0 BWC) hit .609 for the match with only five hitting errors in 64 attack attempts. The nation's top blocking team finished with nine team blocks along with five aces, including two each by Joe Worsley and Jakob Thelle.
 
Opposite Rado Parapunov finished with a team-high 12 kills, hitting .733. The Sofia, Bulgaria native was a perfect 8-for-8 after two sets. Outside hitters Stijn van Tilburg and Colton Cowell each added nine kills while middle blocker Patrick Gasman tallied seven kills and five blocks.
 
Dimitar Kalchev had 12 kills to lead the Matadors (10-9, 0-3).
 
With CSUN holding a 13-10 lead in Set 1, the teams matched point-for-point until the Warriors reeled off four straight, ignited by a Parapunov kill and capped by a van Tilburg overpass slam for a 21-19 lead. Another Parapunov kill and a van Tilburg-Gasman double block got Hawai'i to set point. The Matadors erased two set points before Kalchev served into the net giving the Warriors the early lead in the match.
 
After the Matadors scored back-to-back points to pull within 11-10 in Set 2, UH ran off six straight that included consecutive solo blocks by Cowell and Parapunov for a 17-10 lead. The Warriors extended their lead to 10 at 21-11 following a Parapunov kill and closed out the set with van Tilburg's ninth kill.
 
Trailing 11-10 early in Set 3, the Warriors reeled off six straight points which included back-to-back aces by Jakob Thelle. Cowell added another ace and Joe Worsley served up two more to make it 23-15.