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.
Stanford 3, UC Santa Barbara 0 Long Beach 3, UCSD 0 UCI 3, CSUN 1 1 BYU 10-1 10-3 2 UCLA 8-2 11-3 3 Pepperdine 7-3 7-3 4 Long Beach 8-4 9-4 T5 UCSB 7-4 8-4 T5 Hawaii 7-4 9-5 7 USC 7-5 8-5 8 Stanford 6-5 9-5 9 UCI 7-7 10-8 10 CSUN 4-8 4-9 11 Cal Baptist 2-8 3-9 12 UOP 19 2-11 13 UCSD 0-13 0-14
The Trojans defeat the Rainbow Warriors 25-17, 15-25, 25-17, 25-22 In Set 4, UH pulled to 22-21. SC got a block on Zarkovic and a kill by Jensen for match point. one point later, Jensen with his 20th ended it. Hawaii hit 218 on the night, 4 aces, 2 SEs. 7 blocks. West 4-0-10, Sedore 14-6-39, Averill 7-1-13, Zarkovic 13-7-30, Olsen 3-7-16, Fey 7-2-11 in 2 sets, Zarkovic 11 digs, Ramos 12. Christenson, who was out last week with an […]
Thank you to everyone who helped find the link. Had been waiting to hear from Ah Mow-Santos as well for more details. Anyway, ‘Imi ‘Ike def. Rancho Valley (Calif). 25-17, 25-23 to win the gold in 18 Open. Dropped 2 sets the whole time. 1 in the elite 8 and 1 in the quarters. Coached by Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, assisted by Kaleo Baxter. Aneli Cubi-Otineru and Mita Uiato Members were Adora Anae, Clare-Marie Anderson, Mariah Berard-Kamakeeaina, Bailey Choy, Sydney Fanoga, […]
I am a little surprised but just 18 voters. Interesting that BYU barely beats Stanford (in 5) but moves up from 4 to 2 Loyola Chicago with 14 votes, Still No. 1. then BYU (3 votes), UCLA (1 vote) and Pepperdine. UCSB moves up 2 to 7, The Beatch stays at 6, UCI up from 9 to 7, USC down from 5 to 8, Stanford down a spot to 9, Lewis stays at 10. http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-2-17-14/
Thanks for the reminder Tryouts and all other user names. meant to post earlier Tita Ahuna and Diane Sebastian Pestolesi are 2 of the 7 who will be inducted into the UH Sports Circle of Honor next month. There are now 10 individual volleyball players and the 1982-83 and 87 vb teams. Other inductors are Al and Niko Noga (Footbaoo), QiongJie Huang (diving) and Rose Thomas-Rosie Vera Cruz (tennis) Ahuna (1984-87), the captain of UH’s last NCAA Championship volleyball team in […]
UCI (h) def. Pepperdine 27-25, 25-23, 25-19 UCLA (h) def. CSU Northridge 25-15, 25-18, 34-32 BYU def. Pacific, 25-19, 25-16, 20-25, 25-19 UCSB (h) def. Long Beach, 30-28, 23-25, 25-21, 25-20 USC def. UC San Diego (h), 25-13, 25-21, 25-15 MPSF standings prior to UH-CBU result W L Pct. GB All BYU 9 1 .900 — 9-3 UCLA 8 2 .800 1 11-3 UCSB 7 3 .700 2 8-3 Hawaii 6 3 .667 2 1/2 8-4 Pepperdine 6 3 .667 […]
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Hawaii played very efficiently after making the right adjustments following Set 1. Warriors with a 17-5 edge in blocks. Averill finished with 12 total blocks, 11 BAs, both career highs. Zarkovic 12 kills, 3 errors, Averill 11 kills, 1 error; Olsen 11 kills, 3 errors. Sedore 9-1-24. very nice night for Kanetake with 11 digs. 6 aces, 18 SEs. Team hit .500 for Set 4, 386 for the match. Lancers hit negative 208 in Set 4, finish with a 127. […]