#16 CSUN Improves to 8-2 With 3-0 Win Over Dominican
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – Freshman Stilian Delibosov had nine kills on .818 hitting as the 16th-ranked CSUN men’s volleyball team swept Dominican University New York, 3-0 in a non-conference match on Friday at Premier America Credit Union Arena.
With the 25-14, 25-21, 25-16 win, CSUN improves to 8-2 on the season. The win matches the Matadors’ best 10-match start since 2010 when CSUN was also 8-2 through 10 matches.
Delibosov connected for kills on nine of his 11 errorless swings to go with three blocks in the win. Sophomore Jalen Phillips added seven kills (.385) and a season-high three aces and Trevor Lau came off the bench to match his career-high with five kills (.667).
Behind 31 assists from Donovan Constable, CSUN hit .324 (40-16-74) as a team. The Matadors also had a sizable advantage from the service line, posting nine aces to one for the visitors. CSUN also out-blocked the Chargers (5-2) and had 40 kills to 22 for the Chargers.
S1 – CSUN 25, DU 14 – CSUN used a 3-0 run, highlighted by kills from Lorenzo Bertozzi and Constable and an ace by Joao Avila, to open up an 11-5 lead while forcing an early Dominican timeout. A Constable ace opened up CSUN’s largest lead of seven at 14-7. The Matadors still led by seven at 17-10 and 19-12 before a 6-2 run closed out a 25-14 win.
Dominant first set over Dominican.
CSUN takes it 25-14!#GoMatadors pic.twitter.com/OytwRm9gUK
— CSUN Men’s Volleyball (@CSUNMensVB) February 8, 2025
S2 – CSUN 25, DU 21 – The Chargers scored the first four points before a Dominican ace opened up an 8-3 lead, forcing CSUN’s first timeout. The lead was still five (12-7) when Constable’s first of three aces cut the lead to 12-9. The Chargers would push the lead back to four at 14-10 when CSUN put together an 11-3 run to take a 21-17 lead on a Matador triple block. The visitors would pull within two at 22-20 before a Kaufman kill capped a 3-1 run as the Matadors closed out a 25-21 win.
UP 2-0!
After trailing 17-14, CSUN scored eight straight and won set two.#GoMatadors pic.twitter.com/xHNFfxRROS
— CSUN Men’s Volleyball (@CSUNMensVB) February 8, 2025
S3 – CSUN 25, DU 16 – The Matadors opened the final set on a 4-0 run and would never trail. A Delibosov kill maintained a four-point CSUN lead at 8-4 and the Matadors used a Phillips kill to lead 9-5. An ensuing 6-4 CSUN run gave the Matadors a 15-9 lead at the media timeout. A kill by Jackson Payne would extend the CSUN lead to 18-12, and the Matadors would win the set going away, 25-16.
A Trevor Lau ACE earns CSUN the sweep in 78 minutes!#GoMatadors pic.twitter.com/18hqfPsevD
— CSUN Men’s Volleyball (@CSUNMensVB) February 8, 2025
NOTES
- The match was the first-ever contest between Dominican University New York (1-5) and CSUN in men’s volleyball.
THEO
“We got off to a bit of a slow start but I thought our starters did a nice job of settling in. We took care of them in set one, made some changes in set two, and it always takes a little time for guys to get comfortable, but I thought they played well. The goal for us is to get better, and our ability to play multiple guys in different spots and be comfortable with the offense is really what we’re trying to do.”
UP NEXT
CSUN next travels across the Valley to take on No. 10 Pepperdine at Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu on Saturday at 5 p.m.
#GoMatadors
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