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.
USC (h) def. Pepperdine, 19-25, 25-19, 27-25, 25-18 Long Beach St (H) def. Cal Baptist, 25-20, 25-17, 23-25, 23-25, 15-6 BYU & UCI have clinched MPSF tourney berths 1. BYU 14-2 2. UCI 14-5 3. Long Beach State T4 UCLA & Pepperdine 11-7 6. Stanford 9-8 7. CSUN 8-9 T8 UCSB & Cal Baptist (ineligible) 8-10 9. UH 6-12 10 USC 5-13 11. UCSD 4-14 13. Pacific 3-12
This was Ann’s story this morning. Any thoughts? Don’t know what his ‘out of the box’ ideas are other than one that was floated here a while back where UH ‘hosts’ a subregional in Las Vegas. Canceling the Hawaii-Brigham Young football game Dec. 7 at Aloha Stadium might be a deal maker for Rainbow Wahine volleyball. The anger UH coach Dave Shoji directed at the NCAA volleyball selection committee last fall, when his eighth-ranked team was not seeded in the […]
Cal Baptist def. CSUN (h) 25-23, 23-25, 22-25, 25-21, 16-14 Thursday, Cal Baptist is at Long Beach State Standings CBU not eligible for postseason tourney 1 BYU 14-2 2. UCI 14-5 3. LBSt 12-5 4. Pepperdine 11-6 5. UCLA 11-7 6. Stanford 9-8 Cal Baptist 9-9 7. CSUN 8-10 7. UCSB 8-10 9 Hawaii 6-12 10 USC 4-13 11. UCSD 4-14 12 UOP 3-12
Hoping someone will help me out with a recap tonight because I’ll be at an interview from 6-730 Call the Coach 6 p.m. Outrigger Reef. 296-1420. Thanks.
On another thread someone mentioned that the Wahine would be headed to The Invitational at Washington, filling in that week between the last volleyball tournament and the first Big West match. The Seattle tourney is under consideration but likely the Wahine will be in another tournament in the midwest. Not at Nebraska.
Two losses drop UH two spots back down to 12 BYU (15 votes) and UC Irvine stay 1-2 Pepperdine (1 vote) swaps places with Long Beach State at 3-4 UCLA, Stanford, Lewis stay 5-6-7 Ohio State trades spots with CSUN at 8-9 UC Santa Barbara up from 11 to tie at No. 9 with CSUN 11. Cal Baptist up a spot, 12. Hawaii down 2 Penn State stays at 13, Loyola-Chicago to 14 after not being ranked USC drops from […]
Didn’t start one because I wasn’t there but that is my mistake. It deserves it’s own. UH wins 18-25 25-20, 25-18, 25-17. Att: 1747 there were comments on other threads about it, particularly blocking. Lack of or poor. Think you can hardly judge this team on Friday since Hartong didn’t play front row and they were down to two middles Both Vorster (knee) and Kastl (ankle) weren’t 100 percent. Things will be much different in fall. stat-wise UH hit .229 […]
Below is my web story. another disappointing serving night for Hawaii. radio feed kept going out so it was hard to follow but Set 4 was crucial with 2 yellow cards given to UH. first for delay of game at the start then Sedore got another yellow, his second in 3 matches. Still feel they can make the playoffs but they’re going to have to win out IMHO. UOP and UCSB at home the next two weeks. if they win […]