The UCLA Bruins met little resistance at the net last night against Oklahoma, put up a formidable wall of their own and served the overmatched Sooners off the court.

It all added up to a 30-22, 30-16, 30-26 Bruins victory in the Honolulu Regional semifinals of the NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament at the Stan Sheriff Center.

The statistics didn't lie.

No. 4 seeded UCLA hit .378, and had 13 blocks and eight aces. No. 13 Oklahoma hit .179 with one block and two aces.

"We're excited to be moving on certainly," UCLA coach Andy Banachowski said. "I thought we came out and played hard and played well. We did well in the important aspects of serving and passing. One of our better team offenses so far and I was happy with some of the blocking we had tonight, too."

UCLA (32-3) will face Hawai'i in an Elite 8 match tonight at 6:30.

UCLA middle blocker Nana Meriwether had 17 kills without an error in 24 attempts for a .708 hitting percentage against Oklahoma (28-6). Senior outside hitter Ali Daley added 11 kills and sophomore outside hitter Kaitlin Sather had 10.

"Nana, I didn't realize she had gone through the whole match without making an error out there, although she does that every day in practice," said Banachowski while scanning the stat sheet during the postgame press conference.

Meriwether, who led the nation with a .458 hitting percentage and 1.96 blocks per game, said: "We still had to work hard to get kills."

Oklahoma coach Santiago Restrepo said the key to the match would be stopping Meriwether in the middle and senior Katie Carter on the outside. Carter had six kills in 22 swings, but his Sooners could barely get a piece of Meriwether's shots.

"She hit over .700 against us and we're one of the strongest blocking teams in the Big 12," he said.

Dailey credited sophomore setter Nellie Spicer for running a smooth offense.

"I think it was really good distribution of the setting through Nellie," Daley said. "She has a way of pulling blockers away from the hitters and you always have one-on-ones. We've been working on our shots in practice and going up against our block every day in practice."

The Bruins also dug 66 balls compared to 50 for the Sooners. Oklahoma's only block came early in the match and it went the final 142 serves without another one.

"It was one of our best coverage jobs in a match where a lot of balls (the Sooners) did block our backcourt people were able to keep the ball in play," Banachowski said. "It keeps them from getting some of their blocks."

The first game was tied at 12 before UCLA went on a 7-1 run, which included four aces, to take command.

"I was definitely surprised a little bit. They have obviously very strong servers so we had trouble passing the ball," Restrepo said. "The ball has a tendency to float a little bit more here. We didn't handle it very well. What can you do?"

The second game was as close as 8-7 Bruins, before they switched into overdrive. Meriwether had seven kills in the game, including a stretch of four in a row for UCLA that set up game point.

The third game had 11 ties with the final one at 14-all. The Bruins went ahead 27-23 after a kill from junior middle blocker/outside hitter Rachell Johnson. The Sooners couldn't get closer than two the rest of the way, and Meriwether ended the match with a kill.

"We didn't show the first two games what Oklahoma volleyball is all about," Restrepo said. "We were tentative in the first two games. We settled down in the last game and did well."

Reach Kyle Sakamoto at ksakamoto@honoluluadvertiser.com.