IRVINE, Calif. – No. 2 UC Irvine hit a season-low in a 3-0 loss (22-25, 17-25, 23-25) to No. 3 UCLA at the Bren Events Center Wednesday.

The Anteaters hit just 0.77 (20-15-65) to UCLA's .442 (45-11-77).  

UCI snaps a 10-match winning streak, suffering its first loss of the season, 10-1.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
>Outside hitter Hilir Henno had a team-best 10 kills, three aces and four digs
>Opposite Nolan Flexen tallied five kills plus two block assists
>Middle blocker Maxim Grigoriev had a team-high four aces to go with three kills and two block assists
>UCLA (6-4) was led by Cameron Thorne's 15 kills
> UCI had nine aces to UCLA's four and took advantage of 22 Bruin service errors

FIRST SET
>The set started with two aces by Andon Kiriakou
>Back-to-back kills by UCLA gave some separation, 17-15
>A Bruin service error and an ace by Hilir Henno tied the score at 20-20
>The lead didn't last long as UCLA scored the next three, 23-20
>UCLA would go on to win, 25-22
>UCLA hit .750 (16-1-20) to UCI's .143 (7-4-21)

SECOND SET
>UCLA would score three in a row to take a 5-4 lead then Maxim Grigoriev stepped to the service line and had three aces to go with a solo block by Kiriakou to give UCI a 9-5 lead
>Five kills, two UCI attack errors and an ace moved UCLA back in front 18-12
>The Bruins would go on to take the set, 25-17

THIRD SET
>UCLA started with a 4-1 lead
>The Anteaters would use two UCLA errors and a kill by Henno to tie the score at 10-10
>With the score tied at 13-13, UCLA scored five straight, four on UCI errors to move out to an 18-13 lead
>Down 15-21, UCI would try to rally on kills by Grigoriev and Henno, an ace by Grigoriev and a UCLA attack error, 19-21
>UCI could never catch UCLA, 25-23
 
NOTES
>UCI's nine aces are the most since the team had nine at Stanford on Jan. 31
>A crowd of 2,927 were in attendance at the Bren Center, the second largest regular season men's volleyball crowd ever

UP NEXT
UCI and UCLA will meet again Saturday for a 5:00 p.m. match at Pauley Pavilion.