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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.
Hawaii sweeps 25-18, 25-19, 25-20 Sedore with 15, Averill 9, West 8, Olsen 7. Zarkovic not a good night 5-6-16 UH hit 363, 3 aces, 9 SEs, 31 digs, 10 by Ramos, 9 blocks UOP hit 190, 4 aces, 11 SEs, 24 digs, 6.5 blocks
Moving the discussion on another thread about ‘sandbagging’ to here other links available on avca.org SAND Below see page 4, 9.2 C http://www.avca.org/includes/media/docs/SAND-VOLLEYBALL-NCAA-RULES-MODIFICATIONS3(11).pdf Because Tiegs was unable to play when the dual tournament started on Saturday, she was not allowed to play on Sunday. Riggs moved up to 1 and that necessitated the juggling of the lower pairs 3-5. As for the question of Johnson-Jackson playing at 5 last year, that’s where they played all season, including when […]
Top 3 remain the same: Loyola with 13 votes, The Beach with 3, BYU with 2. 4& 5 switch Pep to 4, UCSB to 5. Stanford stays at 6, USC up 2 to 9, UCI stays at 8, UCLA down two to 9, Lewis and Hawaii trade at 10 and 11 http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-3-17-14/
A great run for the UH pairs UH -2 Spieler-Taylor upset No. 1 Pep Strehlow-Dykstra, 21-16, 21=17 in the semis Spieler & Taylor fell to Pep-2 larsen-Woolever, 21-18, 16=21, 15-10 Larsen-Woolever def. UH -1 Riggs-Cook in the semis 21-17, 21-12
www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Events/Beach/2014-Beach-Collegiate-Challenge Above is the link for Sunday’s results, click on pairs tournament I am going to be out most of Sunday so won’t get to update until this afternoon As mentioned yesterday, 5 UH teams in the Round of 16, and mostly playing Pepperdine teams. 3 teams advanced to quarters. starting at 10:30 a.m. HST This is what we have so far: PU 1 Strelow-Dykstra def. UH 5 Rooks-Higgins 21-10, 21-15 UH-3 Longo-Long def. GCU 2 Dugan-Glennie, 21-15, 19-21, 15-10 […]
BYU 15-2 Long Beach 12-4 Pepperdine 12-5 UCSB 12-6 UCLA 11-7 Stanford 11-7 UCI 11-8 USC 11-8 Hawaii 9-9 CSUN 6-10 Cal Baptist 2-15 UOP 1-16 UCSD 1-18
Stanford def. Hawaii 3-2 BYU def. UC San Diego 25-15, 25-21, 25-15 USC def. UCLA, 25-20, 19-25, 25-17, 25-23 At Long Beach CSUN def. Ohio State, 25-22, 23-25, 31-29, 25-21, 15-13 Long Beach def. Penn State 25-21, 25-23, 25-17
The pairs tournament started after the dual matches Tiegs won’t be playing Sunday. Wong said he was resting her for Wednesday (vs. Arizona and USC) . Said the duals are more importants. All Nos. 1 and 2 teams got byes Hawaii’s 3-4-5 all won to advance to Sunday’s main draw 5. Rooks-Higgins def Grand Canyou’s Ausmus-Goodman, 24-22, 21-16 they play Pepperdine’s No. 1 Strehlow-Dykstra 3. Long0-Long def. Bakersfield’s Riley/Tucker Campbell. they play GC-2 Dugan-Glennie 4. Chow-Tucker def. Bakersfield’s 4-Little-Perrens, 21-13, […]