HONOLULU — No. 10 UC San Diego's time in The Hawaiian Islands presents the 2025 Outrigger Big West Men's Volleyball Championship ended on Friday night after a 3-0 defeat at the hands of No. 1 Long Beach State.
 
The Tritons were the four seed in the competition and coming off a five-set match on Thursday night. As the top seed in The Big West, Long Beach State earned a bye to Friday's semifinal round.
 
Set scores were 25-18, 25-23, 25-17 in favor of the Beach.
 
The loss ended the Tritons' season with a final record of 18-12. Those 18 wins are the team's most in either the Division I or Division II era, which began in 2001.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Tritons were without All-Big West First Team selection Anthony Cherfan. Fellow First Team honoree Bryce Dvorak finished with 29 assists, three digs, one ace and one block. Josh Schellinger, an All-Big West Honorable Mention recipient, was one of three Tritons to finish with a team-high seven kills.
 
Sebastian Lara and Peter Selcho also had seven kills. Selcho finished his two matches in The Big West Championship with no errors, registering 18 kills on 28 attempts.
 
The Tritons' best set came in the second frame of the match as they out-hit Long Beach State .348-.240. UC San Diego started the set with a 14-10 lead before the Beach fought back to go up 19-18. The set was later tied at 22, with Long Beach State winning three of the final four points to win 25-23 and set up the sweep in set three.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.