Friday Top 25/BWC scores, Hawaii 3, UC Irvine 1
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Top 25
No. 1 Minnesota def. No. 20 Michigan, 25-18, 25-18, 22-25, 25-8
No. 14 Nebraska def. No. 2 Penn State, 26-24, 25-19, 25-20
Michigan State def. No. 5 Wisconsin, 14-25, 25-18, 25-22, 22-25, 15-13
No. 11 UCLA def. No. 8 Oregon,19-25, 25-18, 25-19, 25-21
No. 15 Creighton def. Georgetown, 25-12, 25-11, 20-25, 25-11
No. 18 Utah def.No. 25 Colorado, 25-14, 16-25, 25-20, 25-17
No. 19 Florida State def. Virginia, 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 25-14
No. 22 Northern Iowa def. Valparaiso, 25-21, 23-25, 25-22, 25-16
No. 24 Wichita State def. Temple, 29-27, 19-25, 31-29, 25-15
Big West
Cal Poly def. Cal State Fullerton, 25-12, 25-16, 25-13
UC Santa Barbara def. UC Riverside, 25-21, 25-17, 25-22
Where is lipscomb? Do not see her on the bench tonight.
Where’s Lipscomb?
Shane is totally not on the court or even on the sideline. Hope she is OK.
*Shaney*
don’t know where lipscomb is.
same starting lineup as past few matches
Koelsch, Iosia, Granato, Kahakai, Castillo, Williams, Maglio
UCI on a 6-0 run on DeSales’ serving. She has an ace, her 45th this season. It’s 6-1. TO UH
Stuck in a bad rotation.
Misset to Maglio and it’s 23-18. TO UH. Wahine had pulled to 21-18 on Koelsch’s line shot.
Errors.
Wahine practically giving the first set away.
Castillo is way off.
OHs are hitting negative combined. Only MBs are having a good match so far. Again, this is an inconsistent team.
Castillo’s shot into the net, ends it. UCI wins 25-18.
Embarrassing first set. Castillo is missing in action. The team needs to wake up or they’re going to start the Big West season 0-1.
my comment disappeared. go figure.
but wanna keep getting frustrated, than set Casey, because everything she touch flies out
OHs are 3-7-28 for -.143. Every OH is off so far.
I love it when everyone gangs up on one player having a bad night. So much aloha.
Wahine just lack energy.
And of course they won’t beat anyone if mckenna G and Casey both struggle. Gotta hope one of them gets going at least.
Dont understand why Skyler was taken out.
Howling with the kill. UH up 15-13 at the TTO. Maglio went down, think she landed on Montgomery’s foot; should have been a centerline violation. Iosia also looked to tweak an ankle when turning on a play.
Howling hits a heavy ball.
16. I think Howling is the better blocker.
I agree.
UH up 18-13. TO UCI
13. don’t know what you mean about comment disappearing.
Agreed they won’t win many matches when both OHs are hitting negative. but let them adjust and see how it goes from here.
Castillo’s errors mostly went long.
Howling is also a better attacker than Williams.
Can Spectrum stop the end line angle? Even my 7 year old said he doesn’t like it.
22. Perhaps call Spectrum to complain. Have mentioned it to the SID.
DeSales with the kill, pulls UCI to 22-20. TO UH
Team is passing challenged at times. Bad time to shank a serve receive.
DeSales goes wide. it’s 23-20. TO UCI
Granato is passing horribly. Has 3 service errors. She is killing the momentum.
I might be the only one that likes the end like angle to change things up. Can really see the positioning and the plays forming.
Passing has been a weak point for a few years now. You’d think there would be a greater emphasis on it, and some improvement from such emphasis. When UH last went to the final four in 2009, that team could pass nails.
Net violations when Montgomery tried for the service overpass. UH wins 25-22
27. Not to be overly-negative, but this is something you should not be surprised by. Granato has never been a great passer. Greeley looked off tonite, maybe part of the reason she is out.
28. Agree. Interesting view at times.
30. UH gets a gift at the right time.
Granato/Castillo finally in positive hitting territory at .049 combined. Better second set, particularly for Castillo. Clearly, not everything she touches flies out.
Castillo was 5-0-7 in Set 2, Granato 4-3-12.
29. trust me they have worked on serve-receive but give UCI credit. they don’t lead the conference in aces for nothing
Maglio accounts for Hawaii’s last 3 points, a kill, a block and another kill.
UH up 15-11 at the TTO
wahine looking good. they better not let set 1 happen again. as our ladies know they are equipped.
emily magnums block/set, kill was awesome. does she get kill by emily assisted by emily?
Maglio on the service overpass. it’s 20-15. TO UCI
32. As I said, UH has had passing woes for some time, not just against UCI. Also, UCI hasn’t beaten anyone good yet. The only good team they played is Louisville, who swept them. Their SOS is the worst among all teams in the BW. So difficult to give a lot of credit until they play better teams.
BTW, I do trust you, but the practice hasn’t translated to improved in-game performance.
I think a lot of Big West teams serve UH with abandon. Looking for the upset – just like how UH football used to blitz BYU on practically every play back in the 80s.
‘Eaters on a 3-0 run, it’s 22-19. TO UH
ah..wahine decided to pocket the jump serving and switch gears to effect a different tactic.
emilys truly is magnum!
Howling solo stuff and UH wins 25-20.
the middles are rockin it!!! especially emily magnum!
Maglio 11-0-22. .500
Castillo hasn’t had a hitting error since Set 1.
UH should be proud of how it is handling UCI’s attack. Coming into the match, the team hit .256, Kekauoha .316, Akpakpa .369, and Wolfe .301 (probably inflated by the competition). Tonite, the figures are .188, .080, .222 and .278.
that norene to kendra attack was awesome, setter to setter attack!
Wahine sloppiness letting irvine hang around.
come on wahine..dont let this slip….
Maglio hitting .480, 12-0-25. Seriously if they could get her the ball more…
Is anyone else experiencing slight lag and jerky ness from spectrum?
UH had been doing a nice job on Kekauoha. but she’s kind of gotten away from the Wahine.
4 kills this set.
UH has pulled to 16-15 after being down 16-11. TO UCI
we need more magnum. and wahine need to step more on the gas.
I know where she would easily get 15 + more hitting attempts per match.
Granato with her 500th kill. ties it at 16.
Ace by Granato makes it 22-19. TO UCI
UH now has more aces than UCI, 5 to 4. Also more service errors, 9 to 8.
what was that one match where wahine had 13 aces again? now good on casey with her serves..at last.
Koelsch ends it 25-20
Not bad , Mckenna G did not play to her standards and wahine still won.
24 digs for Savanah.
54. Northern Arizona.
congratulations wahine on the W. rising can be reserved for later and put to good/better use.
56. Actually, Granato, Castillo and Koelsch all failed to play anywhere near their season averages, and UH won. Thank the middles (21-1-39, .513), team defense (including 11 blocks), and the fact that they didn’t face a team like Poly.
58. oh yeah. there was some announcement and confused me like that was a long time ago. haha
ryan kalei tsuji said it best and funny. #buillthewall and make irvine pay for it.
the middles made that happen and though irvine refused to pay for it, did pay for it.
Good win. I was frustrated by the slow start but glad to see the Wahine assert themselves after that. All along it felt like we had the better team; it was just a matter of our players performing up to their potential.
All I can say is Thank you to Scott Wong for really wanting to recruit Emily Maglio and convincing Dave she would be a great player. Makes you wonder how many other players Dave didn’t feel would turn out to be great players but did indeed become great players when playing for other teams. Not being negative towards Dave but just wondering. It’s hard to predict how good or how bad players will become in college. Howling and Williams seems to have adjusted well. They will be great in the years to come for HI.
We stunk up the place and still won! If I never see the match and you told me that our 3 pin hitters hit a combined .150 and Iosia had her worst setting performance as a Rainbow Wahine, I would have asked you how badly we lost. Tough serving, good blocking (18 blocks), and Emily Maglio saved our bacon tonight….
Anyone know what happened to Shaney Lipscomb tonight? She wasn’t there….
Thanks to MAGSnificent for her play tonight!!!
Hummm…she’s not on roster.
I suspect Shaney has left the program if she wasn’t at the game and she is no longer listed in the team roster. Her Facebook page says she is currently living in La Jolla. Really unfortunate for UH. They lost a player ranked just outside the top 100. Now the speculation begins as to why she left.
I hope we get some explanation from both sides. Robyn seems to be a little caviler in her responses to real questions. While her hard nosed approach is working with this group, I don’t think “my way or the highway” is going to work if you are trying to recruit California girls. There is too much we don’t to speculate further.
Like mentioned above, it is nice to see that we can still win even if Granato struggles a little. I love Ross in the back row.
Cindy has defended Robyn’s persistence in using granato in the back row because of back row attack potential. However granato’s struggles with passing overshadow this. Ross should sub for granato in the back row because she is better passer and can also handle backrow attack. Granato’s passing is painful to watch in person.
Irvine targeted granato all night in services. Irvine coaches are not stupid. Wait until we play Santa Barbara and cal poly.
No win will be a given in the BWC, but Hawaii has more talent on its roster than everyone else – including Cal Poly.
Cal Poly is playing the best right now though, and they have terminating outsides and an amazing senior setter.
Unfortunate to hear that Lipscomb likely left the program. I have a feeling she won’t be the only one after this season.
Totally agree Conner, Ross, based on passing alone should be in the back row. With her ability to hit the pipe set makes this a no brainer IMO. This would allow Granato to concentrate on what she does best, pound the ball from the front row.
Hope the coach can get some foreign players/transfers during the offseason, if not the team’s going to be in trouble next season.
Ah Mow seems to have a very different coaching style than Shoji, who seemed to be more laid back during the last few years. I think Robyn said in an interview that she thought Dave had mellowed a lot from the time she was a player to when she was on his coaching staff. I have to wonder how her personality might play with potential recruits.
If it’s true that Shaney Lipscomb has left the program that is really disappointing. I had high hopes for her. IMHO she was the heir apparent to NT’s opposite position….big loss if true….
77. I don’t know how Robyn actually is, but i agree that in general old school attitude won’t cut it in the long run. Old futs can blame the young players, but unless a coach is recruiting 40 year old freshman, the coach needs to adapt and stress communication over pure discipline.
I disagree about Granato not playing back row. She has been passing pretty well up to this game. She did steady out after the first game. It’s her serving that’s been problematic. I kind of look at it that you take the good with the bad. Very sure that they are working on it. She has the best back row attack on the roster. I do like Ross in the back row. I think they found a home for her.
#80. Do you go to games in person? I do and granato’s passing woes are very apparent thru the entire match. She should not be playing backrow.
R78
Don’t see it
Always thought her jump vertical wasn’t high enough, hope for the best for her ,if she indeed left the program.
shaney left? thats too bad. shaney is the only left hander too.
i bet cindy might know.
http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=44736
new thread up for Saturday.
Answer on Lipscomb on new thread.
some brutal comments.
I didn’t think they ‘stunk up the place’
Other than Set 1, they played pretty well.
Granato played herself out of negative, came up with key kills
Think the real key was Castillo in Set 2. She was 5-0-7. when that happens, the block has to honro the pins and it opened up the middle.
Maglio only had 3 kills through Set 2. Passing got better and they were able to run the middle.
Bottom line. They picked up the W.