Volleyshots

Believe this gives the sport 31 teams. 40 required for NCAA to sponsor a championship. Quite a growth heading into its third season. California State University, Northridge announced the addition of women’s sand volleyball as the Matadors’ 19th intercollegiate sport Friday. Jeff Stork, head coach of the Matadors’ indoor volleyball team, will be the head coach of the sand team. The Matadors’ sand squad will begin competition this spring, and will feature 14 returners from CSUN’s 2013 indoor squad that […]

Hawaii will open coach Dave Shoji’s 40th season Aug. 29. Arizona State, San Diego State — coached by former Wahine All-American Deitre Collins — and Ohio University are in the year’s first tournament at the Stan Sheriff Center. The following weekend, 2012 NCAA runner-up Oregon will be here with New Mexico and St. John’s. UCLA and former Western Athletic Conference opponent Utah State return the third weekend, with San Francisco. Pepperdine comes in for two matches the following week, before […]

A little surprised the Rainbow Warriors stayed put at No. 10 Pepperdine moves up to 1 from 3 (12 votes) and Loyola-Chicago stays at No. 2 with the other six votes. UCLA up 3 to No. 3, USC up 1 from No. 4 and Long Beach drops to fifth from 4. BYU up to  from 8 UCI tied with UCSB for eighth. http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-1-20-14/

Will be out on assignment so won’t be able to post when it comes out. If someone sees it before I get back, would you mind putting up where Hawaii is? I think they’ll move up to around 8. and for those who missed it on an earlier thread … Oceanic only televising one of this week’s UCSD matches. Believe they’ll only be there Friday, not Sunday. As others have suggested, you are welcome to call OC to complain.

Josh Walker’s team Marienlyst won the Danish Cup in 4 sets over Gentofte in Odense, Denmark.  They have qualified for the Nordic finals in two weeks.

A very good win for the Rainbow Warriors tonight. it ties the series at 38-38 one of the keys was early, in Set 1, where they opened with Timmer serving. in men’s volleyball you only have 6 subs and can only re-enter once. The lineup allowed them to have Timmer serve twice. They also went without a libero a couple of times at the end. Averill, who got beat up all night when being stepped on under the net, had […]

Just a reminder that there is no TV tonight Radio 1420-AM  espn1420am.com  

West: broken left pinkie, happened in practice. got a second opinion yesterday. Out a minimum of 3 weeks. At the point, they’re not discussing a medical hardship petition.