California Baptist University
Stanford
Cardinal Sin
4/13/2013 4:51:00 AM | Men's Volleyball
PALO ALTO, Calif. --- No. 5 California Baptist University was on the verge of snagging a second straight huge road win, before No. 8 Stanford stormed back in the fifth set.
Coming back to force a fifth game, CBU was up as much as three early in the set, but ended up falling 15-10 to lose the match.
Stanford held serve on its home court, winning 25-23, 20-25, 25-16, 25-23, 15-10 to move to 15-11 overall, 12-11 MPSF.
CBU grabbed a 7-4 lead early in the fifth and looked to have all the momentum, but Stanford would get three straight points, two on Lancer errors, to even the set and force a CBU timeout.
Out of the break the Cardinal kept the run going, outscoring CBU 8-2 down the stretch to win it.
Stanford was up 2-1 in the match after an impressive third game win, but the fifth-ranked Lancers showed the poise of a team that had been down before, stealing a hard fought fourth.
Going down by two late CBU got two kills from Guilherme Koepp and a bad Cardinal set to take a 21-20 lead. Koepp smashed another after a Stanford timeout and CBU would hold that advantage the rest of the way.
Koepp ended the set with a kill, giving him six in the game.
After trading the first two sets the Lancers and Cardinal looked to be in for a battle, but Stanford came out and blasted CBU by nine points in the third.
CBU committed nine attack errors in the third, hitting just .059 in game three and Stanford attacked at a .309 clip to score the comfortable win.
After dropping the opening set, the Lancers came back and forced the Cardinal into costly errors down the stretch to win by five. It was Stanford with the unusually high attack error number, totaling eight in the game.
Koepp led the short-handed Lancers with 17 kills in the match and Levi Cabral posted 15.
The Cardinal put four players in double figures, led by Steven Irvin with 14. Stanford hit .303 in the match.
The Lancers hit .213 on the night, committing nine more errors in the match.
CBU falls to 16-13, 12-11 with the loss, closing the season tomorrow night at Pacific.
