Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
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Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.
Bruins fall in 5 to the Matadors tonight, 25-22, 19-25, 28-26, 16-25, 23-21. UCLA hit .433, had a 11-4.5 edge in blocks. and still lost. CSUN had 9 aces but 25 service errors. Bruins with 4 aces, 18 SEs. some other results: UCSB def. Long Beach State 3-2, Stanford def. UOP 3-0 UCLA at 12-9, UH at 11-9 for that final spot. UCLA has gone 2-7 in its last nine, a slide started by the 2 losses to Hawaii. Bruins […]
Moving the discussion here from another thread and clarifying. Friday’s match not televised. Oceanic is doing Baseball vs. UCI Saturday’s match is televised on OC-16 UH says live streaming both nights but if you go to ocsports.tv, it will only be on Saturday Radio both nights on 1500-AM nbcsportsradiohawaii.com
http://avca.org/sand/poll/ sorry for the delay Had two interviews and the dentest BTW, SandBows last home matches Saturday vs. HPU and Chaminade at Queen’s. The schedule has been switched and they will play HPU at 9 a.m., Chaminade at 10 a.m. Only the match with the Sea Warriors will count in UH’s record. something about only counting one match vs. a ‘club team.’ SC (10-1) and Pepperdine (9-1) swap at 1-2 after the Women’ of Troy beat the Waves back on […]
top 3 remain the same: Loyola (12 votes), BYU (5), Pepperdine 1 Stanford moves up 2 spots to 6, UCSB stays at 5, Long Beach drops 2 to No. 6. UCI and USC swap at 7-8, UCLA stays at 9 and Hawaii at 10 11-15 stay the same: Lewis, Ball State, Penn State, IPFW, Harvard.
For the second time this year, University of Hawaii sand volleyball’s top tandem of Karissa Cook and Brittany Tiegs captured a pairs tournament. The duo defeated fellow Rainbow Wahine Katie Spieler and Nikki Taylor in the finals of the Stanford Tournament Sunday at ACSR Sand Volleyball Courts to cap a stellar Northern California road trip for the SandBows. UH went 5-0 in dual matches during the week, while Sunday’s tournament bracket saw four UH tandems fill in the semifinals. UH went a perfect 10-0 against competitors from Santa […]
this from stanford’s twitter brack link is at https://twitter.com/StanfordSandVB/status/450343079036219392/photo/1 looks like Tiegs=Cook, Long-Longo and Chow-Urban into quarters. the latter two play each other. UH twitter is @UHSandVB
1. BYU 18-2 2. Pepperdine 15-6 3. UCSB, Long Beach State, Stanford 13-7 6. UCI 14-9 7 USC 14-9 8. UCLA 12-8 9. Hawaii 11-9 Pepperdine 3, UOP 1 CSUN 3, UCSD 2 BYU 3, UCLA 1
Hawaii 5-0 vs. Stanford, UCLA and Santa Clara. #3 Hawai’i def. Stanford, 5-0 1. Brittany Tiegs/Karissa Cook (UH) def. Brittany Howard/Carly Wopat (STAN), 21-16, 21-10 2. Katie Spieler/Nikki Taylor (UH) def. Jordan Burgess/Lauren Birks (STAN) 21-12, 21-14 3. Ali Longo/Ginger Long (UH) def. Madi Bugg/Kyle Gilbert (STAN) 21-10, 21-9 4. Hannah Rooks/Karlee Riggs (UH) def. Kelsey Humphreys/Inky Ajanaku (STAN) 21-16, 21-11 5. London Chow/Tayler Higgins (UH) def. Morgan Boukather/Megan McGehee (STAN) 21-12, 21-10 #3 Hawai’i def. Santa Clara, 5-0 1. Brittany Tiegs/Karissa Cook (UH) def. Nikki Hess/Sabrina Clayton (SCU), 21-12, 21-17 2. Katie […]