people complained and doubted about long until she showed this match that shes a decent defender, almost as much digs as mendoza and kahakai. despite end of match she hit 0% she still had 7 kills and where it counts. you see that high velocity swing of hers? and this time she was more tactical, what she lacked in offense compare to tai she made up for in defense and she shielded na wahine from kill shots digging it up and passing it spectacularly and she scrambled.

also yall miss tai eh? you all before were dissing tai too. and i know some of you still do, hating on both tai and ginger, including about the formers faith.

a note on serving, notice how nikki taylors serve was so effective? she kind of changed her jump float to more of a standing float similar to adolphos the other day but with a little hop on it. and since people complained about service errors, notice how ucsb servers were all the way back? essentially they can hit as hard as they want and as long as they hit it straight, it would go over the net and hardly go out long. wahine float servers should try that at a standing float all the way back instead of jump floating (ie greeley, long, to name a few). speaking of serving i wonder couldnt they use passi as a serving specialist to threaten some opponents with her jump/spin serve like vs davis?

the reasons why wahine won the match (because they were in some real threat of danger):

they won the opening set (which was a sort of luck, had they lost that set, it could of been like last year 5 set and who knows, they have yet to win at 5, let alone come from behind to win at 5)

sarah mendoza was at least 40% faster (i had predicted she only needed to be 20% faster vs ucsb, knowing that she isnt going to be any quicker and she luckily now has kahakai and even long to back her up if need be). good thing because that gaucho libero is hardly slow.

higgins provided armor. though her setting was of lesser quality but she provided 7 blocks (on paper thats more than anybody else). despite her perceived lackluster setting to the middles, magill and adolpho still got plenty kills and blocks. greeley also contributed.

of course, the TIGER of na wahine RISES. broken elbow? what broken elbow? (though i still implore her to use her other arm as necessary) nikki taylor her power was terrifying including at the service line with 3 aces/no service errors. her gun easily tore through the gauchos defense. it was taylor made!