Feb. 17, 2005
Los Angeles, Calif. - The Stanford men's volleyball team fell to No. 1 ranked UCLA in four games at Pauley Pavilion on Thursday night. It was the fifth loss in six contests for the Cardinal, who dropped to 4-9 and 3-7 in MPSF play, while the Bruins improved to 13-1 and 9-1 in conference contests.
The Bruins captured the first two games, putting together scoring runs that sunk the Cardinal. Stanford rebounded to capture game three despite surrendering a 25-21 lead as the Bruins came back to tie the score at 31. The Cardinal sealed the game with two straight points to post the 33-31 win.
In Game 4, a 12-12 tie was broken when Stanford committed three straight hitting errors and the Bruins' Paul Johnson spiked a kill for a four-point lead. The lead never shrunk to less than three points and UCLA won the game and the match on another kill by Johnson.
Senior David Vogel led Stanford with 17 kills, followed by Craig Buell who added 10. William Clayton and Ben Reddy contributed nine kills apiece, and Kevin Hansen recorded 51 assists.
The final game scores were 30-21, 30-20, 31-33, 30-26.
The Cardinal continues its southern California road trip on Saturday, traveling to UC Irvine for a 7:00 pm game.