Volleyshots

Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.

About the blog host

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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Do we need a rewind tonight

By Cindy Luis on March 3, 2013

Not seeing the need to rehash what we have been for the past 20 minutes or so on the other thread. the SC matches are must-wins. lose those two and pretty much they aren’t making the playoffs. still a tough road trip at Cal Baptist after that. and UOP, UCSB and UCSD are no pushovers  UCSB nearly won at BYU and beat host UCLA.

MPSF standings 3-3 updated

By Cindy Luis on March 3, 2013

tonight Stanford def. USC 3-2 BYU 12  2  13-3 Long Beach 11 3   13-4 UCI  12  4   15-4 Stanford 9  6  12-6 Pepperdine 9  6  9-6 CSUN 7  6  9-6 UCLA  7 7    11-9 Cal Baptist  4  7  7-9 UCSB  5  10  7-12 USC  4  9  4-9 Hawaii  4 10  5-12 Pacific  3  9  5-9 UCSD  3  11  6-13 Scores from Saturday BYU 3, UCSD 0 USC  3, Pacific 1 Stanford 3, Pepperdine 2

CSUN 3, Hawaii 1 3-3

By Cindy Luis on March 3, 2013

Marks back in the lineup. Not sure if he’s completely over what we were told was a respiratory problem. other starters. Timmer serving, Ramos, Sedore, Averill MB and floor captain today. OH Zarkovic, Cheape at Libero,  Guessing Holt is the other MB, will come in for Timmer.

wahine fall tournaments

By Cindy Luis on March 2, 2013

courtesy of Diggin Na Wahine blog. Rest of the schedule still waiting on football. Texas, San Diego, UTEP Arizona, New Mexico State, Northwestern Santa Clara, Portland State, UCLA the comment is about the RPI. Hard to say. It all depends on how these teams do and how their opponents do. and UH has to hope that the Big West has a better year.

CSUN-UH rewind

By Cindy Luis on March 2, 2013

Sorry, our server went down after Set 3 and I had no access to the blog. think it was a very winnable game for Hawaii but they have to cut down their service errors. 9 aces, 16 SEs. Agree with an earlier comment that Marks was valuable not just for his numbers but his presence. He said after the match he hoped to be ready to go Sunday. A lot of times UH’s youth showed. They hung on to bad […]

MPSF Standings 3-1

By Cindy Luis on March 1, 2013

without UH result BYU       11-2    12-3 UCI        12-4   15-3 Long Beach 11-3  13-4 Pepperdine  9-5  9-5 Stanford  7-6  10-6 UCLA  7-7  11-9 CSUN  5-6  7-6 UCSB  5-10  7-12 Cal Baptist  4-7  7-9 Hawaii 4-8  5-10 UOP  3-8  5-8 USC  3-8  3-8 UCSD  3-10  6-11

MPSF scores 3-1

By Cindy Luis on March 1, 2013

Scores from the week UCSB def. UCLA 3-1 UCI def. Cal Baptist 3-2 Stanford def. Cal Baptist 3-1 Friday BYU def. UCI 3-2 Cal Baptist def. UC San Diego 3-0 Long Beach State def. UC Santa Barbara 3-0 Pepperdine def. UOP 3-1

CSUN 3, Hawaii 1 3-1

By Cindy Luis on March 1, 2013

Seems like it’s been a long time since the team was in her UH starting Olsen at OH, announced that he was the floor captain tonight. Also along witih Ramos, Timmer, Sedore, Averill, Zarkovic and Cheape.