The University of the Fraser Valley men's volleyball team came up victorious in a four-set battle against their crosstown rivals, the Columbia Bible College Bearcats, on Friday in Abbotsford.

Playing at Columbia Place, the Cascades dropped the first set 25-20, but stormed back to take the next three 25-23, 25-22, 28-26.

With the win, the UFV squad improves to 6-17, while the Bearcats fall to 1-22 in PACWEST play.

The two teams wrap up the regular season on Saturday at UFV's Envision Financial Athletic Centre (7 p.m. pacwestbc.tv).

"We did a good job of siding out, and we passed better tonight than we have recently," UFV head coach Nathan Bennett analyzed. "Ryan Luck came in and did a really good job of passing for us – he was on fire."

The teams found themselves even at 12-12 in the first set, but the Bearcats scored five of the next six points to take a 17-13 lead. CBC held onto that advantage late, and with the score 23-20, they got a kill from Noah Bouius and a block by Nathan Rempel to finish off the set 25-20.

The Bearcats went up 10-7 in the second, but four consecutive kills by the Cascades' Landon Uy helped his team surge ahead 13-10. CBC chipped away at the lead, eventually pulling even at 19-19 after a pair of kills by Jackson Anderson. With the Cascades up 21-20, Uy once again hit back-to-back kills to increase their lead to 23-20, and despite a late charge from CBC, UFV held on to take it 25-23.

The Cascades built a 23-19 lead in the third, and while CBC was able to close the deficit to 23-22, kills by Graham Walkey and Justin Peleshytyk finished it off 25-22.

The teams continued to battle in the fourth, playing to a 25-25 score, but it was the Cascades who once again came out on top after a pair of kills by Peleshytyk and another by Uy to close it out 28-26.

"Our defensive and transition game has been doing a pretty good job for us in the last month or so, but today any of the things that were unexpected or not of the norm we had a difficult time with," Bennett said afterward. "When things were rolling, we were doing really well. I think it's the moments when things don't come as easily – that's where we have to clean up going into provincials."

Uy posted a game-high 18 kills for the Cascades, while Caleb Kastelein notched 14 of his own. Carter Bronson added 15 digs, while Luck had seven on the night.

Bouius paced the Bearcats with 15 kills, and Jakob Boschmann added 13.