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Loyola’s Thomas Jaeschke returns a serve during the Ramblers win over Stanford in last year’s NCAA final. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Loyola men’s volleyball team swept into the semifinals of the NCAA volleyball tournament with a 3-0 win over Pfeiffer Tuesday night at Stanford.
The No. 3 seed Ramblers (26-2), defending NCAA champions, meet No. 2 UC-Irvine Thursday.
No. 1 Lewis opens in the semis against the winner of the late Tuesday quarterfinal between Hawaii and Penn State.
Loyola rallied from a 24-19 deficit and staved off nine set points before taking the second set 33-31. The Ramblers won the other sets 25-20 adnd 25-15 as Thomas Jaeschke of Wheaton had 12 kills.