MPSF match of the week: Pepperdine sweeps UCLA
By Cindy Luis on February 5, 2014No. 1 UCLA 9-1, 6-0 at No. 3 Pepperdine 5-1, 5-1 Gametracker & video at pepperdinesports.com Pepperdine wins Set 1 25-14
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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.
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Tuileta commits to USC
By Cindy Luis on February 5, 2014sorry for not posting sooner. There are comments on the MPSF thread. Agree with the comment that it was somewhat tacky that he did a hat switch at the signing. But nothing other players didn’t do this morning elsewhere during NLI Day. Would have been a nice bonus for volleyball. This from our Paul Honda earlier Wednesday: Larry Tuileta was known to drop a bomb on opposing defenses from time to time as an All-State quarterback at Punahou. He dropped […]
MPSF standings 2-3
By Cindy Luis on February 3, 2014Heading into this week UCLA 6-0 BYU 7-1 Pepperdine 5-1. UCSB 4-2. Long Beach 5-3 USC 4-3 CSUN & Hawaii 3-3. UCI 3-5, Stanford 2-4. Cal Baptist 2-5. UOP 0-6. UCSD 0-8. Saturday scores BYU 3, USC 2 Stanford 3, CSUN 0 UCLA 3, UCI 1 Long Beach State 3, UOP 0 Monday’s match: BYU at Cal Baptist.
Warriors stay at No. 11
By Cindy Luis on February 3, 2014http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-2-4-14/ Only changes among 13 are UCLA-Lewis no longer tied for No. 1, UCSB and UCI trading 8-9 1. UCLA 10 votes 2. Loyola-Chicago 8 votes 3. Pepperdine 4. BYU 5. USC 6. The Beach 7. Stanford 8. UCSB 9. UCI 10. Lewis
catching up on scores from past week
By Cindy Luis on February 1, 2014Some interesting matches today (2/1) UCLA at Irvine (playing each other twice in six days), BYU at SC, CSUN at Stanford and Beach at UOP Past week’s results: UCLA 3, UCI 0; Cal Baptist 3, Princeton 0; USC 3, Cal Baptist 0; UCLA 3, UCSD 0; Beach 3, Stanford 2; CSUN 3, UOP 2,; Pepperdine 3, BYU 2, Irvine 3, UCSD 0 MPSF standings heading into today’s matches 2-1 UCLA 5-0 BYU 6-1 Pepperdine 5-1 USC 4-2 UCSB 4-2 CSUN […]
UCSB tops Hawaii in 5 on Night 2
By Cindy Luis on January 31, 2014Junior opposite Brook Sedore put down a team-high 15 kills and junior middle Taylor Averill added 14 but it was not enough as No. 11 Hawaii fell to No. UC Santa Barbara for a seventh straight time tonight in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Gauchos (5-2, 4-1) were led by Evan Licht’s 22 kills in winning the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball match 20-25, 25-23, 25-14, 21-25, 15-13 at Rob Gym. Sophomore hitter Siki Zarkovic added 10 kills for the Rainbow […]
UH falls to UCSB 3-1
By Cindy Luis on January 30, 2014UCSB def. Hawaii 25-19, 21-25, 25-22 Sedore with 19 kills and Zarkovic 12. Olsen a flat .000 6-6-20 Not much from the middles. Averill 7-3-18, Holt 2-1-7. Gauchos with a 12-7 edge in blocks. Key: UH no aces, 13 SEs. UCSB 7 aces, 18 SEs Klingi the only one in double figure kills for UCSB with 13. Not a pretty match on either side UH hit 192 to UCSB’s 208. Both teams with 24 hitting errors. UCSB with three more […]
Aloha to Ann Miller
By Cindy Luis on January 30, 2014Annie’s last day is tomorrow, Jan. 31. She has been an outstanding journalist and wonderful colleague since I came to Hawaii in 1981. She started at the Advertiser the year before in 1980. She has left her mark with her in-depth coverage for over three decades, especially Wahine volleyball and basketball, as well as local tennis, golf and high school sports. I never considered her a rival because of our different news cycles for most of our careers, she with […]