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Match tied at 1. Santa Clara wins Set 1 25-22, after it was tied 22. NMSU wins Set 2 25-17.

Not to belabor the point but for those who have dismissed how good USD is, 2 good road wins at Iowa State tourney No. 14 San Diego def. No. Illinois (H) 3-1 Saturday & No. 11 Iowa State 3-1 Friday Now, can’t promise this is a complete schedule, some scores from Friday; they again don’ t have UH’s complete schedule, nor UCLA No. 6 Texas def. No. 1 Penn State 3-2, 25-27, 25-17, 13-25, 25-21, 15-10 No. 8 Florida def. […]

Watching the replay. What a great dig by Manu-Olevao to keep the run at the end alive. Think they had more silly string than at 1,000. What a great celebration. Glad to get to see this, albeit delayed. Dashefsky wise to get out of the way. Anyway, had held off posting this until after Shoji’s milestone, in part because UA coach Rubio had asked out of respect to Shoji so as it not create a distraction. Rubio told me that […]

Quite the night. Was stuck writing on deadline, the rewriting. sorry that I couldn’t offer live posts. Banachowski stayed out of it until Shoji called him out of the stands. Thought Shoji did a really nice job of his post match speech. was funny and humble. anyway, UH hit 303 for set 4, ended up 12-6.5 edge in blocks. after being outblocked 3-0 in Set 1. UH had 6 blocks in Set 2 They are re-doing the box cause it […]

Hawaii coach Dave Shoji’s run into the volleyball history book took longer than expected but the No. 9 Rainbow Wahine defeated Santa Clara 23-25, 25-15, 23-25, 25-17 tonight at the Stan Sheriff Center. Senior All-American Emily Hartong finished with a match-high 20 kills and team-high 14 digs for Hawaii (3-1, 2-0 Hawaiian Airlines Classic). Sophomore middle Jade Vorster added 10 kills and was in on five of Hawaii’s 12 blocks, while senior libero Ali Longo had 13 of the Wahine’s […]

UCLA’s win over NMSU was 78 minutes. Poor Aggies. They likely will have spent over 12 hours more on their delay in Phoenix than their actual playing time on the court. Only mentioning this because UH won’t start until the scheduled 730 p.m start. Santa Clara using the time to work with their two setters. The protocol clock has started so looks like UH will come out on the court early.

UCLA up 25-15, 25-22. UH will start on time … 730. Bruins finish out 25-12

Match last 91 minutes, UH hit. 260 to NSMU’s 132. 43-17-100. Aggies outblocked the Wahine 9-6. UH won the dig battle 37-30, and ace battle 5-3. Taylro 7-3-15, Vorster 4-1-6 (2 sets), Manu-Olevao 6-2-15, Uiato 2-1-4, 27 assists, Hartong 13-6-33, they set her a lot at the end to give her the ‘honor’ of ending the record-tying match but the final point put down by Goodman. Hartong also led the team in aces (2) and digs (9) Adolpho 7-3-17, Long […]