No place like home for Bruins
By Daily Bruin Staff
Feb. 12, 1998 9:00 p.m.
Friday, February 13, 1998
No place like home for Bruins
VOLLEYBALL: Despite injury to Naeve, UCLA expected to stay
ahead
By Grace Wen
Daily Bruin Staff
The UCLA men’s volleyball team will begin a 10-match home stand
with two matches against the San Diego schools this weekend.
The Bruins (8-0, 4-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) will
host San Diego State Friday night in Pauley Pavilion and UC San
Diego on Saturday night at the Wooden Center. Both matches will
start at 7 p.m.
"I’m not going to worry about San Diego," said UCLA head coach
Al Scates. "I’m going to worry about us playing well, improving our
own performance. We’re just going to play our game, work on our
game and that should be enough hopefully. We should definitely beat
these two teams."
Despite the fact that Scates anticipates wins over both schools,
he does not think that the matches will be easy.
UCLA will be without sophomore middle blocker Adam Naeve this
weekend.
Naeve suffered second-degree burns on his arms when he spilled a
pot of coffee on himself. Junior Danny Farmer will start the match,
and his backup will be sophomore Seth Burnham.
Farmer has been a key player in his role off the bench. He
sparked UCLA to wins over Pepperdine, USC and Long Beach State. The
dual-sport athlete currently averages 3.36 kills per game and a
block a game.
For UCLA, it will be a chance to see how the team fares without
its sophomore superstar. As usual, the Bruins form an intimidating
block, but without the 5-foot-10-inch Naeve the Bruins lose some
height at the position.
Though Farmer stands at six feet, four inches, his quickness
enables him to compensate what he lacks in height.
Although San Diego State (1-6, 0-5) would like to capitalize on
Naeve’s injury, it will most likely continue its losing streak. The
Aztecs dropped matches against UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine last
week. However, SDSU did post a win over USC, a team that the Bruins
did not sweep.
UCSD has been win-less thus far in the 1998 season, and will
most likely remain that way through this weekend. The Bruins boast
a 59-2 record against San Diego State and are undefeated against
UCSD with a 27-0 series record.
