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Friday: Only have score but U.S. just defeated France 25-21, 25-22, 24-26, 25-20. Keeps hopes alive to defend the World League title Point differential has U.S and France advancing, host Brazil out. In Hong Kong Friday, the women stayed undefeated in World Grand Prix with a 25-21 25-18, 23-25, 25-16 win over Thailand. They play China Saturday. Libero Tamari Miyashiro, in her second start, had a match-high 12 digs.

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2015/July/16/Brazil-Cuts-US-Mens-Comeback-Short U.S. loses 28-26, 22-25, 25-22, 27-25 in Rio. Christenson was the setter, was in on 3 blocks with 6 digs. Erik Shoji at Libero had 9 digs. Kawika Shoji did not play The U.S. (0-1) must beat France (1-0) on Friday if it hopes to advance from the pool to the semifinals and defend its title. France is on a 15-match World League winning streak including a 3-1 win over Brazil (1-1) Wednesday. then it gets a little convoluted: […]

U.S. men in Rio for World League final round. Pool play opens Wednesday but U.S. doesn’t play until Thursday against Brazil, the team it beat to win World League last year US won its pool 9-3, Brazil won its pool 9-3 Both Shojis and Christenson on the team. Event page link below http://worldleague.2015.fivb.com/en Taylor Averill on the men’s team at the Pan Ams. They open Friday vs. Puerto Rico Link for volleyball schedule below http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/volleyball/schedule-and-results.htm

Hope everyone on Oahu survived the heat and now the rain of the weekend. Happy 30th wedding anniversary to Diane Sebastian and Tom Pestolesi. Great people and glad I was able to cover them during their playing days at UH. I did have a story on Kirsten Sibley (Campolindo, 2016 oral commit) in Friday’s paper. But because it is behind our paywall for subscribers I cannot repost it here. so recapping it with a couple of items didn’t make it […]

A couple of things to update from Wednesday’s thread. the other player not in summer school is Guinasso. She is playing beach this summer but will be back for fall camp. Shoji said he didn’t mention her on the radio Wednesday because she wasn’t in Hawaii but she will be in the mix. Kirsten Sibley, 6-2, OH from Vision Volleyball in Los Gatos has given her oral committee for 2016. Still waiting to hear back from her club coach. Some […]

Feel free to add if I missed stuff. Coach was on for about an hour, some of which there also was a reporter on Major League baseball, which played into Shoji’s love of the Dodgers. He discussed the players being in summer school that started Monday and open gym starting, which coaches are not allowed to attend. Said that two players are not back, only one he mentioned was Mitchem, who is still finishing her degree at Irvine Valley. Caller […]

Bobby’s on vacation but Josh Pacheco filling in on 1420-AM Shoji supposed to be on at 7 a.m. to talk about various things. and for those who might have missed previous post, former UH players Jane Croson and Gus Tuaniga named to both the indoor and beach teams for American Samoa at the Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea. Also, Wahine commit Norene Iosia on the team.

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Was one of the hottest I can remember. Finally got some rain this morning to cool things off. U.S. won its pool finishing 9-3, split the last two matches in Poland, losing 3-2 and winning 3-1. Poland moves on as well when finishing second at 8-4 Speraw decided to go with Kawika Shoji at setter, finished with 29 assists, 13 digs, 3 kills and a block. Erik Shoji at libero with 15 digs. […]