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.
Only two conference matches today, both go to 5 Cal Baptist (H) def. Hawaii, 25-14, 24-26, 23-25, 25-21, 15-13 UCSD def. USC (H) 23-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-20, 15-12 1. BYU 14-2 2. UCI 14-5 3. Long Beach St. 12-5 4. Pepperdine 11-6 5. UCLA 11-7 6. Stanford 9-8 7. CSUN 8-8 8. UCSB 8-10 Cal Baptist 6-9 9 Hawaii 6-12 10 USC 4-12 11 UCSD 4-14 12 UOP 3-12
The tournament included teams from UH, Florida International, Hawai‘i Pacific, and Chaminade in a 16-team main draw and consolation bracket. The 16-team, single-elimination main draw was an all-FIU final with top-seeds Kate Stepanova and Ksenia Sukhareva defeating third-seeded Jess Mendoza/Maryna Samoday, 21-13, 19-21, 15-7. Both FIU teams defeated Hawai‘i teams in the semifinals en route to the finals. Stepanova and Sukhareva ousted Natasha Bell and Tai Manu-Olevao, 21-19, 21-16 while Mendoza and Samoday easily handled Katie Spieler and Ginger Long, […]
UCLA def. CSUN (H), 20-25, 25-19, 22-25, 25-13, 15-10 Pepperdine (H) def. UCSD 25-13, 25-13, 25-15 UC Irvine def. USC (H), 25-18 ,25-20, 25=21 think the concern for Hawaii is to not finished tied with CSUN, which has the tiebreaker BYU 14-2 UCI 14-5 Long Beach 12-5 Pepperdine 11-6 UCLA 11-7 Stanford 9-8 CSUN 8-8 UCSB 8-10 Cal Bapts 6-9 Hawaii 6-11 USC 4-12 Pacific 3-12 UCSD 3-14
Not much to say (plus I still have to do Chaminade basketball rewrite) UH killed by 22 service errors with just 4 aces CBU had 10 aces, 13 SEs. UH with 14 blocks to CBU’s 10. CBU with 8 solo, says something about predictability. Sedore 11-8-30, 1 BS, 4 BA, 0 aces, 7 SEs West 0-0-0 in 2 sets ? Averill 3-1-6 (feed the middle) Marks 10-2-25, 1 aces, 7 SEs Holt 6-2-11 2 BA, 6 BS Zarkovic 14-3-24. 2 […]
Radio 1500. no internet radio live video streaming at cbulancers.com best way to get to livestats is through hawaiiathletics.com go to MVB schedule and click on livestats. no change in the starting lineup for UH. Timmer in the middle, then Holt will come in.
Wahine Nos. 1 and 2 lost their matches, Nos 3-4-5 win. 1. Kate Stepanova/Ksenia Sukhareva (FIU) def. Ginger Long/Katie Spieler (UH) 21-16, 21-13 2. Jessica Gehrke/Maryna Samoday (FIU) def. Natasha Bell/Tai Manu-Olevao (UH) 21-15, 21-18 3. Jane Croson/Ashley Kastl (UH) def. Emily Podschweit/Tina Toghyani (FIU) 21-16, 21-19 4. Alyssa Longo/Karlee Riggs (UH) def. Camila Rosado/Elly Citron (FIU) 21-11, 21-17 5. Kuulei Zalopany/Olivia Urban (UH) def. Jessica Mendoza/Laura Duffy (FIU) 21-17, 21-12 and No. 6 Miyashita-Mount won their exhibition.
Finally got a result from HPU from Wednesday’s match. unfortunately have yet to see a box. Hawaii Pacific beat Division I Texas Tech in five sets (25-17, 13-25, 25-18, 20-25, and 15-12).Freshman outside hitter Samantha Rummans led the Sea Warriors with 18 kills, followed by sophomore middle hitter Haley Doerfler who had 10 kills, and junior right-side hitter Makamae Recca added eight.
Interesting times in the MPSF *UCSB (H) 3, CS Northridge 1 (25-22, 25-21, 24-26, 25-15) *UCLA 3, LONG BEACH ST (H) 2 (21-25, 21-25, 25-18, 26-24, 15-10) 1 BYU 14-2 2 UCI 13-5 3 Long Beach State 12-5 4 Pepperdine 10-6 5 UCLA 10-7 6 CSUN 8-7 7 Stanford 9-8 8 UCSB 8-10 9 Hawaii 6-10 10 Cal Baptist 5-9 11 USC 4-11 12 UOP 3-12 13 UCSD 3-13