Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 THOUSAND OAKS (3-17)-- UC Santa Cruz men's volleyball finished 1-1 after playing two tough matches at the Cal-Lu-Fornia Invite Friday afternoon.
The Banana Slugs fell 3-1 to third-ranked Juniata (25-20, 19-25, 21-25, 21-25) before rallying to outlast the host Kingsmen with a 3-1 reverse sweep of their own (21-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-23).

Match 1
The Banana Slugs hit .321 in taking the first set against Juniata. However they hit a combined .167 the rest of the match dropping the next three sets.
Set Four had nine ties before UC Santa Cruz took a 16-13 lead. However, the Eagles ran off a 9-4 run to regain the lead at 22-20. Colton Jeffrey had a kill to bring UC Santa Cruz back within 1 before Juniata closed with the last three points to stop the comeback and pick up the win.
Jeffrey led the Banana Slugs with a season-high 19 kills. Zachary Thompson had a season-high seven total blocks to go over 100 in his career. Mohan Duvvuri had 22 assists while First Year Johndiego White had a season-high fifteen assists.

Match 2
In front of a raucous crowd, Cal Lutheran led the entire first set and held off every rally by the Banana Slugs to take a 1-0 lead. Set Two was all UC Santa Cruz, as the Banana Slugs held the hosts to -.032 hitting and led by as much as five at 22-17 before holding on for the two-point win. Cal Lutheran went up 12-8 in the third set on a controversial moment where a Cal Lutheran player was suspected of a double-touch before the Kingsmen won the point. The hosts still had the lead at 19-15 before UC Santa Cruz responded with a 4-0 run, tying it on a setting error. UC Santa Cruz got to Set Point at 24-22 on a block from Jeffrey and Ethan Makishima and held off a Kingsmen comeback, with a kill by Noy Fisher ending the set and giving UC Santa Cruz a 2-1 lead.
Set Four opened with UC Santa Cruz going up 4-0 helped by two Riley Norman aces. However the hosts rallied to tie it at 8-all. Ties on the next eleven points followed before the Banana Slugs found their groove and pushed the lead to 22-19. However, the Kingsmen rallied again to tie it at 23-all, but the hosts' luck ran out as a pair of CLU errors gave the set and match to the Banana Slugs.

Norman had a season-high 17 kills to lead the Banana Slugs. His two aces gave him 34 for the season and moved him into fifth place on the school's single season chart. Jeffrey had 11 kills and eight digs, while Tuncer had a double-double with 10 kills and 12 assists. Duvvuri had a team-high 26 assists as UC Santa Cruz ended Cal Lutheran's school-record nine-match winning streak.
UC Santa Cruz (18-9) plays early Saturday against East Coast schools Nazareth and Lasell.