Volleyshots

AVCA out with Poll No. 1 of season Hawaii up from 4 to 1, slides the previous top thee down a spot each 2. Pepperdine. 3. USC. 4. Florida State The Beach and LMU stay put at 4 and 5 http://avca.org/sand/poll/ And keep forgetting to put up this about the Aloha Invitational, April 24-25 It’s been on the UH schedule but now CBS Sports is involved with a national broadcast and falls the week before the AVCA nationals in Alabama. […]

Rainbow Warriors with 1 first-place vote Top 3 remain the same: Loyola (16 votes), Lewis, UCI (1 vote), UH with 1 Been told it is the highest ranking since No. 4 in 2010 kind of surprised that BYU didn’t drop more Cougars lost two to unranked Stanford, only down 2 spots to 6 Pepperdine stays at 5 http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-3-9-15/ Thanks for the help on getting the sand poll notice. It’s the DiG poll. Think the AVCA will be out next week […]

Reminder no TV for Sunday (don’t shoot the messenger) UH didn’t put up the radio link. It is on 1500-AM nbcsportsradiohawaii.com. Gametracker at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74749 I’ll be there with Volleyshots but it will be limited. Have to write another story for Monday’s paper. MPSF standings heading into Sunday UCI 12-2 Hawaii 11-2 Pepperdine 9-3 BYU 10-4 USC 9-5 UCSB 8-7 Beach 7-8 UCLA 6-7 Stanford 5-8 CSUN 3-10 Cal Baptist 2-12 UCSD 0-14

Queen of the Beach (Gold Champion): Kellie Woolever/Kelley Larsen (Pepperdine) Runner-Up: Olivia Urban/Katie Spieler (UH) Silver Bracket Winner: Corrine Quiggle/Katie Messing (Pepperdine) Bronze Bracket Winner: Samantha Cash/Leanna Schroeder (Pepperdine) Best Offense: Sarah Sponcil (LMU) Best Blocker: Katie Messing (Pepperdine) Best Defense: Katie Spieler (UH) Aloha Spirit: Sophie Asprey (Pepperdine) Gold Bracket (6 teams) Round 1 Metter/Sponcil (LMU) def. Knudsen/Dykstra (PEPP) 21‐18, 21‐17 Strehlow/Cook (PEPP) def. Asprey/Racich (PEPP) 13‐21, 21‐18, 15‐10 Woolever/Larsen (PEPP) vs. bye Urban/Spieler (UH) vs. bye Semifinals Woolever/Larsen […]

Figured men deserved their own thread. Sand thread still open for comments. Really good win for the SandBows today. Around the MPSF Friday Stanford def. BYU 3-1 Long Beach State def. UCLA 3-2 UCSB def. CSUN 3-0 Cal Baptist def. UC San Diego3-1 UC Irvine def. Ball State 3-0

Sand season about to start at Queen’s 9 a.m. Hawaii vs. LMU Pepperdine vs. LMU at 10 a.m., UH vs. Pepperdine at 11 Followed by the pairs tournament around 1:30. continues Saturday at 8 a.m. No game tracker will try to update from the beach. Men’s VB key match vs. the Waves. 7 p.m. Friday gametracker at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74748 TV OCsports Ch. 16. Radio 1420-am online links available for both TV and radio ocsports.tv espn1420am.com

Now that football schedule is released, Shoji can start finalizing fall 2015 Already have mentioned the teams that will headline each of the three tournaments. In order: Oregon State, UCLA and Florida. Reed Sunahara just took the job at West Virginia. wouldn’t be surprised to see him on a future schedule. Looks like San Diego State will be back for one of the tournaments this year. Wednesday Long Beach State rebounded to beat UCSB 3-1. a little surprised by that […]

These are the pairs for Friday’s opener with LMU No. 1: Brittany Tiegs (Sr., 5-9)-Nikki Taylor (So., 6-3). No. 2: Katie Spieler (Jr., 5-5)-Olivia Urban (Sr., 6-2). No. 3: Sammie Brown (Sr., 5-10)-Hannah Rooks (So., 6-0) No. 4: Lara Schreiber (Fr., 6-0)-Mikayla Tucker (So., 5-8) No. 5: Heather Boyan (Sr., 6-2)-London Chow (So., 5-5) UCLA def. CSUN 16-25, 25-21, 25-22, 25-23 UCI def. USC 20-25, 18-25, 25-19, 25-17, 15-13. Trojans’ fourth straight loss. Live chat with Brook Sedore 1 p.m. […]