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Bruins, Long Beach Volleyball Winners

By MIKE HISERMAN
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UCLA and Cal State Long Beach are all but assured berths in the NCAA men’s volleyball Final Four after winning Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. tournament matches Thursday at Cal State Northridge.

UCLA (23-4), the defending national champion, made short work of Stanford, 15-11, 15-9, 15-9. Top-ranked Cal State Long Beach secured the other bid with a 9-15, 17-15, 17-15, 15-11 victory over second-ranked USC.

The Final Four is scheduled for May 4-5 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

UCLA and Cal State Long Beach play in the WIVA championship game Saturday at Northridge, with the winner receiving the conference’s automatic qualifying berth. But even Saturday’s loser, as the second-place finisher in a conference that has delivered all 20 NCAA champions, is a lock to advance as a wild card team.

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Mike Hiserman

Mike Hiserman is former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. He wrote for the Long Beach Press Telegram and Orange County Register before joining The Times in 1982 and won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting on betting scams. Hiserman has been Sports editor of The Times’ San Fernando Valley and Orange County editions. He retired in November 2020.

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