Long Beach State, UCLA cruise into NCAA men’s volleyball semifinals

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Long Beach State and UCLA men’s volleyball teams moved one step closer to a potential national championship rematch with quarterfinal sweeps at the NCAA tournament on Thursday, while Pepperdine extended its late-season magic.
Top-seeded Long Beach (28-3) defeated No. 8 seed Fort Valley State, 25-21, 25-16, 25-16, while third-seeded UCLA (21-6) dismissed sixth-seeded Belmont Abbey, 25-18, 25-21, 25-19.
LBSU will face fifth-seeded Pepperdine (21-9), which outlasted