Hawaii sweeps CSUN
FINAL: The Rainbow Wahine volleyball team completed a 25-23, 25-19, 25-20 sweep victory at Cal State Northridge on Friday night, improving their overall record to 15-7 and 11-2 in the Big West.
Here’s the breaking news on it.
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Set 3
Cal Poly sweeps UCSB 25-18, 25-23, 25-19
5:35: Hawaii wins it 25-20, final point coming on CSUN hitting error
5:29. Hawaii up 19-15. TO CSUN
Over in San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly about to sweep UCSB
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5:23; Hawaii was down 1-8, have scored 4 straight to take a 12-11 lead. TO CSUN. McKenna Granato with 10 kills, her 15th match in double-digit kills. She is 7 shy of 1,000 for her career.
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SET 2
McKenna Granato 8-1-13, Natasha Burns 8-2-13. Sarah Liva 6-0-8.
5:04: Kill by McKenna Granato ends it Set 2 25-19.
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4:57: Block by Sarah Liva and Angel Gaskin puts Hawaii up 18-12. TO CSUN
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4:53: Two aces by Janelle Gong has Hawaii take a 13-9 lead. TO CSUN
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Set 1
4:37: Kill by Norene Iosia ends it. Set 1 to Hawaii 25-23.
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4:35: Aeryn Owens with a tip shot. CSUN holds off 2 set points when closing to 24-23. TO UH
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4:33: Norene Iosia hits long. CSUN pulls to 23-21. TO UH
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4:28 Hawaii pulls away at 22-16. TO CSUN. McKenna Granato 3-0-4, Sarah Liva 5-0-5.
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4:23: Hawaii extends lead to 17-13 on a kill by Sarah Liva and a hitting error by CSUN’s Aeryn Owens. TO CSUN.
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Forgot to mention that former Long Beach State coach Brian Gimmillaro on the ESPN3 broadcast. I had joked with the Big West that it would be fun to have Dave Shoji join Brian G on a broadcast.
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4:17: Hawaii up 15-13 at the TTO
CSUN will do a challenge that the block hit Ross as it was going out. That would make it 14-14. We’ll see when we come back.
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Starting lineup McKenna Ross (in for Casey Castillo), McKenna Granato, Sarah Liva, Natasha Burns, Faith Ma’afala, Norene Iosia, Tita Akiu. Angel Gaskin in at Opposite in the fourth rotation.
CSUN starting all five seniors. It is Senior Night at the Matadome.
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Hawaii (14-7, 10-2) at CSUN (7-17, 3-9), 4 p.m. HST
It’s Senior Night for the Matadors
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Early Top 25
4) Illinois def. Ohio State 25-17, 18-25, 25-11, 25-19
9) Creighton def. St. Johns 25-22, 25-12, 25-22
10) Pittsburgh def. Georgia Tech 25-12, 25-19, 25-19
24) Louisville def. Miami-FL 21-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22
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Rado Parapunov worked out with some of the Warriors, using the Mikasa volleyballs the team will be using when playing in Japan. Hawaii left today for a week-long training trip.
Cal Poly has just swept UCSB. Although Robyn Ah Mow denies that fatigue the day after UH defeated Cal Poly in five exhausting sets, I’m sure that UH could have defeated UCSB if they had an extra day of rest. UCSB is a great defensive team but the Gauchos had too many errors, 31 total vs. 15 of Cal Poly. Kills and aces about the same, but Cal Poly had four more total blocks. Really it was the errors that killed UCSB.
Of course fatigue was an issue. Robyn is not going to publicly make excuses but I have zero doubt the girls were drained.
This team plays off emotion and when you extend all your energy and emotion for the game that meant so much, you bound to have nothing left the next day.
Our hope was that UCSB would struggle too but they didn’t….so we ended up with nothing in the tank.
The remedy for that kind of situation in the future is to get depth at all positions. If our “B” team can keep up with our “A” team, then Robyn could have plugged fresh players here and there and not lose a beat. Unfortunately, we don’t have many proven players at OH and we lost Casey due to injury so we were not able to really sub much players in.
Congratulations. A great win.
How are the men’s side doing? They are on the airplane to Japan today. On the air now. Or landed. Still flying.
1. the UCSB-Cal Poly score is updated above. really don’t care for this format but it is what it is.
4. They left Friday so not sure where over the Pacific they are.
The more interesting match is at UC Riverside, which is in Set 5. Highlanders up over UC Irvine 9-7 in Set 5
UCR closes it out in 5, 19-25, 25-17, 25-22, 13-25, 15-11
Latest Top 25
4) Illinois def. Ohio State 25-17, 18-25, 25-11, 25-19
9) Creighton def. St. Johns 25-22, 25-12, 25-22
10) Pittsburgh def. Georgia Tech 25-12, 25-19, 25-19
17) Cal Poly def. UC Santa Barbara, 25-18, 25-23, 25-19
19) Marquette def. Villanova 21-25, 25-14, 25-15, 25-17
20) Missouri lost to South Carolina 25-18, 23-25, 25-21, 20-25, 13-15
24) Louisville def. Miami-FL 21-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22
25) Tennessee def. Ole Miss 21-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23
5. I had not refreshed the screen when I announced the UCSB-Cal Poly score so I hadn’t seen your own update at around 5:30. I tried to avoid reading the update of the Hawaii match with CSUN so I could see the ESPN3 replay online, but when my comment got published, I couldn’t help seeing the final caption, “UH sweeps CSUN.” It’s not as much fun watching when I know the outcome of the match in advance. Cal Poly I watched first as there is no replay and as a Cal Poly alumnae, I didn’t want to miss that match with UCSB.
Enjoyed Brian Gimmillaro on the broadcast. Loved his insight on the game. Surprise we didn’t see Skyler get in the game. Actually thought she was going to start.
9. Think Williams is better off the bench. We’ll see who they use against The Beach. I would think Castillo. She’s cleared to play
Final Top 25 for Friday
1) BYU def. San Diego 25-19, 25-15, 22-25, 25-20
2) Stanford def. Colorado 25-19, 25-21, 27-29, 27-29, 15-9
4) Illinois def. Ohio State 25-17, 18-25, 25-11, 25-19
8) Nebraska def. 7) Penn State 25-27, 25-19, 21-25, 25-18, 15-8
9) Creighton def. St. Johns 25-22, 25-12, 25-22
10) Pittsburgh def. Georgia Tech 25-12, 25-19, 25-19
17) Cal Poly def. UCSB 25-18, 25-23, 25-19
19) Marquette def. Villanova 21-25, 25-14, 25-15, 25-17
20) Missouri lost to South Carolina 25-18, 23-25, 25-21, 20-25, 13-15
21) Arizona def. 18) Washington State 23-25, 25-20, 19-25, 25-22, 15-12
22) UCLA def. Oregon State 26-28, 24-26, 25-18, 26-24, 15-9
24) Louisville def. Miami-FL 21-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22
25) Tennessee def. Ole Miss 21-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23
25) Northern Iowa def. Bradley 25-22, 25-19, 25-23
Big West
Hawaii def. Cal State Northridge, 25-23, 25-19, 25-20
Cal Poly def. UC Santa Barbara, 25-18, 25-23, 25-19
UC Davis def. CSU Fullerton, 25-16, 25-18, 25-10
UC Riverside def. UC Irvine, 19-25, 25-17, 25-22, 13-25, 15-11
There doesn’t seem to be a women’s volleyball version of Bracketology on-line.
I wanted to see where Hawaii stands.
I didn’t think they were in the Last 4 In grouping, but I was curious to see if they were in the Last 4 Out, or Next 4 Out categories.
Bubble-wise, where do you think Hawaii stands, Ms. Luis?
Hawaii is last four IN, if they sweep remaining matches, but its still dicey. Hawaii wants their OOC opponents to do really good from gere on out and wants pepperdine to do good too to have that extra top 50 win.
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Thank you.
12. If the RPI could get mid-40s I think they have a chance. But they also have to win out.
13. Thanks.
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