Parapunov POW, Warriors stay at No. 2
Hawaii junior opposite Rado Parapunov picked up his third weekly Big West honor of his career, and first this season, after putting down a combined 34 kills with eight blocks and hitting .463 in last week’s wins over UC Irvine. The Bulgarian national had 18 kills on Friday, including 12 in the 33-31 Set 1 victory, and added 16 kills Saturday as Hawaii extended its program records for consecutive sweeps (12) and consecutive sets won (36).
It was the third conference award this season for the Warriors. Earlier, sophomore libero Gage Worsley and junior middle Patrick Gasman earned defensive player of the week honors.
Gasman was nominated for defensive player of the week. That award went to Nick Amando of Long Beach State.
The complete release is here.
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Long Beach State (15-0) remained a unanimous No. 1 but for the first time this season Hawaii (12-0) is a unanimous No. 2 receiving 14 points from all 16 voters. UC Irvine (13-4) stayed at No. 3.
With Pepperdine losing twice on the road at UCLA and USC, the Waves (11-4) drop to No. 6. That pushes UC Santa Barbara (14-3) up from No. 5 to 4 and UCLA (14-4) up from 6 to 5.
#AVCA Top-15 (March 4):
1. Long Beach State
2. Hawai'i
3. UC Irvine
4. UC Santa Barbara
5. UCLA
6. Pepperdine
7. Lewis
8. Stanford
9. Loyola-Chicago
10. BYU
11. Southern California
12. CSUN
13. Purdue Fort Wayne
14. George Mason
15. Ball State— AVCA (@AVCAVolleyball) March 4, 2019
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The SandBows remained No. 5 in the AVCA beach volleyball poll.
AVCA Beach (March 4):
1. UCLA
2. Southern Calif
3. Pepperdine
4. Florida St
5. Hawai’i
6. LSU
7. Cal Poly
8. LBSU
9. FIU
10. South Carolina
11. Calif
12. Loyola Marymount
13. Stanford
14. Arizona
15. Stetson
16. FAU
17. Grand Canyon
18. Georgia St
19. TCU
20. Saint Mary’s— AVCA (@AVCAVolleyball) March 4, 2019
Never mind unanimous #2, I wonder why Hawaii isn’t getting any 1st place votes. Yes, LBSU is the defending champ, but Hawaii leads in hitting percentage, kills per set, assists per set, digs per set and blocks per set. They’ve had two common opponents, Concordia Irvine and USC. Both swept Concordia, UH had the larger point differential. UH swept USC, Long Beach won in 4 at home. I’m biased, but I’d vote for Hawaii.
This team is for real…Youtube has several clips of the UCI series…Solbrig doing the slide…I could watch that all day!
It seems that the Bows won’t get #1 votes until they beat LBSU at the end of the season, which I believe they will. And I think LBSU won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. GO BOWS!
3..I agree with your whole post!
Hawaii got two (2) first place votes, finally, in the Off the Blocks Media Poll today. RESPECT!
http://www.offtheblockblog.com/2019/03/off-the-block-releases-new-college-mens-volleyball-national-media-poll-9/#more-26803
There’s so much the Warriors can improve on, it could get scary. I don’t even have a gut feeling that this particular team fall into a slump either because of a great deal of maturity on the court. Their confidence is soaring even more, way more, after this weekend and I believe it will only fuel them to achieve even more greatness.
http://www.offtheblockblog.com/2019/03/why-i-selected-hawaii-no-1-on-this-weeks-media-poll-ballot/#more-26798
I saw very impressive performance vs. UCI. However, the Warriors played a relatively ‘soft schedule’ so far. NJIT, Concordia, Queens, St. Francis, Lincoln Memorial, these are really D-II teams. Who are we kiddin. Why are we playing these teams. LBSU is National defending Champs. You need to beat them to take over the number one spot. That won’t happen until the end of the season.
Should be an interesting second half of the schedule. Go Warriors. BOOKUMDANOALOHA
Rado is national POW!!!
deleted your first part
Need to be humble until we can take down LBSU.
http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=49027
new thread up for Tuesday with Parapunov National POW
7. with only 10 conference matches instead of 22 when in the MPSF they need to fill the schedule.
THey brought in SC and Stanford. Pepperdine and Ball state this week.