UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The third-ranked University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team completed a two-match series sweep of No. 14 Penn State with a 3-1 win, which included a marathon fourth-set, Saturday at Rec Hall. Set scores were 25-27, 25-10, 25-15, 38-36.
 
The Rainbow Warriors (10-1) went 3-0 on their three-match road trip to the state of Pennsylvania and returns to Honolulu riding a seven-match win streak. The matches in State College marked the first appearances for UH since the 2002 NCAA Championship.
 
Kainoa Wade matched his career-high in kills with 21 to lead Hawai'i while Louis Sakanoko also tied his personal best with 19. Wade hit .450 in the match with only three attack errors in a team-high 40 swings while also adding three aces, five digs, and four blocks. Sakanoko hit .515 in 33 attempts along with one ace and five blocks.
 
As a team, UH hit .412 with nine aces and 13 blocks. Setter Tread Rosenthal dished out 47 assists and tallied two aces, seven digs, and three blocks. Adrien Roure added 11 kills, three aces, seven digs, and three blocks while Justin Todd led the team with a career-high seven blocks. Roure's ace on UH's eighth serve for the match ended it.
 
Matthew Luoma led the Nittany Lions (4-4) with 17 kills but hit .212. Sean Harvey added 11 kills.
 
Owen Rose closed out the tightly contested first set with back-to-back aces snapping UH's 13-set win streak.

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That loss did not sit well for the Warriors, who routed the Nittany Lions in Sets 2 and 3, 25-10, 25-15, respectively. UH hit a combined .722 in the two sets with only one attack error in 36 attempts. The Warriors also tightened up their defense with 7.5 blocks and held PSU to a combined hitting percentage of .000.  
 
The Nittany Lions took an early four-point lead in Set 4 but UH tied it at 12. Each time the Nittany Lions jumped back ahead, the Warriors would tie it, including at 22 after a Roure-Todd double block.
 
The teams then traded points until UH had match point at 25-24. The Lions erased two of Hawai'i's chances for the match and had their own set point at 27-26 and four more times. The Warriors fended off each one and had their own match point again at 32-31 after a PSU attack error. The Lions would erase five more match points but Roure's ace – originally called out but overturned by replay – closed it out.
 
Hawai'i will take the next week off before travelling to Stanford for a two-match series, Feb. 13-14.