PROVO, Utah, April 14, 1997 -- The #3 seed BYU Cougars will host the #6 seed Hawaii Rainbows at the 1997 PowerBar/Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men’s Volleyball Championship Tournament Quarterfinals, live this Saturday evening, April 19th at 6:00 p.m. PST, 9:00 p.m. EST, across America and around the world, via satellite, on The Cable Radio Network from Brigham Young University’s Smith Fieldhouse.
The PowerBar/MPSF Men’s Volleyball Championship Tournament Quarterfinal match between BYU and Hawaii will also air live throughout the Hawaiian Islands on the Rainbow Sports Radio Network, with flagship 1420AM KCCN, Honolulu.
Olympic sportscaster Jeff Ruffolo will call the play-by-play with Bob McGregor providing the color commentary. PowerBar (www.powerbar.com) is the broadcast title sponsor.
BYU is paced by the 1996 Volleyball Magazine Freshman of the Year Ryan Millar, with outside hitters Steve Hinds, Ingo Lindemann and middle blocker Adam White. In the only regular-season match-up this season on February 1st in Provo, BYU defeated the Rainbows in an eighty-eight minute, three game sweep, 15-8, 15-4, 15-7.
The Rainbows will counter with four senior starters, including setter Curt Vaughan, outside hitter Aaron Wilton and opposite Jason Ring. A third year starter, Hawaii’s junior middle blocker Sivan Leoni has a .441 hitting percentage, which ranks him among the leaders in the nation.
NCAA Volleyball is available on the global Internet at Audionet (www.audionet.com/radio/contemporary/crn) and throughout the United States on The Cable Radio Network, with satellite audio coverage provided to hundreds of cable TV systems ... including the major metro markets of: Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Dallas, Providence, Seattle, Portland and Arlington, Virginia.
NCAA Volleyball radio broadcasts are also available to TV satellite dish owners in Canada, Guam, the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Central and South America, via Satcom C3, Transponder 23, Audio Channel 7.235.
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation includes the varsity men’s volleyball programs of: Brigham Young University, Cal State Northridge, University of Hawaii, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount University, University of the Pacific, Pepperdine University, San Diego State, Stanford, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and USC.
Next Broadcast:
Saturday, April 26 - PowerBar/Mountain Pacific Sports
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