Volleyshots

Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.

About the blog host

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.

Latest news

MPSF scores 2-12

By Cindy Luis on February 12, 2014

UCSB (h) def. CSUN, 25-18, 25-19, 25-6 Stanford def. Pacific (h) 25-18, 26-24, 25-17 Long Beach def.  UCLA (h), 25-16, 25-20, 22-25, 25-22

Hawaii 3, Cal Baptist 1

By Cindy Luis on February 12, 2014

There will be fan phones for the first time this season tonight (Wednesday) 296-1420 after the match Wednesday’s match on TV. Friday’s not because of baseball opener Radio: 1420-AM Wednesday, 1500-AM Friday Livestreaming Wednesay at ocsports.tv Audio: espn1420am.com Wednesday, nbcsportshawaii.com Hawaii Livestats: hawaiiathletics.com.  

Hawaii stays at No. 11 in poll

By Cindy Luis on February 10, 2014

Loyola-Chicago and UCLA swap places at 1-2, Ramblers with 11 votes, Bruins with 5 3-6 the same: Pepperdine (2 votes) BYU, SC, Beach, UCSB and Stanford swap at 7-8 9-10 the same UCI and Lewis http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-2-10-14/

MPSF standings & results through 2-8

By Cindy Luis on February 9, 2014

A very nice win by the Warriors tonight. UCLA travels to SC Sunday Elsewhere Stanford 3, UCI 0 UOP 3, UCSD 1 UCSB 3, Pepperdine 2 Standings BYU 8-1, 8-3 UCLA 6-1, 9-2 Pepperdine 6-2, 6-2 Beach 5-3, 6-3 UCSB 5-3, 6-3 USC 5-3, 6-3 Hawaii 5-3, 7-4 Stanford 4-4, 7-4 UCI 4-6, 7-7 CSUN 3-5, 3-6 Cal Baptist 2-6, 3-7 UOP 1-7, 2-9 UCSD 0-10, 0-11      

Hawaii sweeps CSUN a second time

By Cindy Luis on February 8, 2014

Had some errands to run live stats, video, audio via gomatadors.com UH wins Set 1 25-22, Set 2 25-19 UH blocking well again, 5-2 edge Siki having a much better outing 7-1-12 West 3-1-6, Sedore 4-0-12, Olsen 5-1-9, Averill 5-1-6 1 aces, 10 SEs.

MPSF standings 2-7 & results

By Cindy Luis on February 8, 2014

some results Thurs/Fri USC 3, UCSB 2 Stanford 3, UCSD 0 UCI 3, UOP 0 Saturday UH at CSUN,2 30 p.m. HST UCSB at Pepperdine UCI at Stanford UCSD at Pacific Sunday: UCLA at USC Heading into Saturday’s matches BYU 8-1, 8-3 Pepperdine 6-1, 6-1 UCLA 6-1, 9-2 USC 5-3, 8-3 Beach 5-3, 6-3 UCSB 4-3, 5-3 UH 4-3, 6-4 UCIS 4-5, 7-6 Stanford 3-4, 6-4 CSUN 3-4, 3-5 CBU  2-6, 3-7 UOP 0-7, 1-9 UCSD 0-9, 0-10    

Warriors sweep at CSUN

By Cindy Luis on February 7, 2014

Sedore and Olsen both with 10 kills as Hawaii sweeps Cal State Northridge 25-20, 25-15, 28-26. Warriors hit .360 to the Matadors’ 153 CSUN 5-7-19 in Set 2. UH with a 12.5-4.5 edge in blocks. Warriors 4 aces, 14 SEs. Sedore with 2 aces. Matadors 3 aces, 14 SEs West back 5-0-8, Zarkovic 6-6-24. Averill 8-0-9 so the middles combined for 13-0-17. last 99 inutes.

warriors at CSUN 5 p.m. HST

By Cindy Luis on February 7, 2014

Have to cover DII state girls basketball so won’t be updating until after the match is over. You’re welcome to post. Video & livestats at gomatadors.com Radio 1500