HONOLULU – The third-ranked University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team returned to Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center after a 40-day break between home matches with a four-set win over sixth-ranked BYU, Wednesday. Set scores were 27-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-18.
 
The Rainbow Warriors (13-1) extended their win streak to 10 matches with the win while snapping the Cougars' nine-match win streak. UH hit .460 in the match with three players – Kainoa Wade, Louis Sakanoko, and Adrien Roure – combining for 45 of the team's 63 kills.
 
Wade continued his recent hot streak with a team-high 16 kills, hitting .355 with two aces, six digs, and four blocks. He started sluggishly with three errors, hitting .000 in the first set before finding his rhythm and hit .500 the rest of the way.
 
Louis Sakanoko tallied 15 kills, hitting .433 with three aces and six digs while fellow Frenchman Adrien Roure added 14 kills, hitting .500 with four digs. Trevell Jordan had a season-high seven kills in 11 errorless attempts with four blocks and Ofeck Hazan came off the bench to ignite the offense with four kills and two blocks.
 
Tread Rosenthal finished with 46 assists, four kills, six digs, and three blocks.

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Trent Moser led the Cougars (13-3) with a match-high 18 kills along with four aces, four digs, and two blocks. Trever Herget and Connor Oldani each had 12 kills. As a team, BYU hit .386 for the match and tallied eight aces.
 
UH erased a five-point deficit to take the opening frame. The Warriors used a 10-4 run, capped by a thunderous backrow kill by Sakanoko to retake the lead. The Cougars fended off two set points until a kill by Sakanoko and a Jordan-Rosenthal double block ended it.
 
The Cougars reeled off four unanswered in Set 2 for an 18-13 lead. The Warriors got within one at 23-22 after an ace by Wade and had a swing to tie it but the Cougars dug Sakanoko and Moser's kill gave them set point. After a UH point, Moser's 14^th kill gave the Cougars the set.  
 
UH jumped out to an 11-5 lead in Set 3 as Roure tallied five of the team's first nine kills. The lead was 20-12 after back-to-back aces by Finn Kearney and the Warriors never looked back.  
 
A 4-1 run in Set 4 gave Hawai'i a 14-10 lead which was all it needed. The Warriors scored six unanswered for a 22-15 and closed out the set on a 9-3 run.  
 
The teams play again on Friday at 7:00 p.m.