Simply three ranked groups performed Saturday as AVCA No. 21 USC knocked off VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 12 Minnesota in 4 units and No. 23 Dayton swept at VCU.
In fact there have been reverse sweeps. Kansas State did it to visiting Iowa State, Davidson did it to visiting George Mason, Jap Michigan did it to visiting Miami and Murray State did it to visiting Evansville.
Strains of the day: There have been a lot price noting.
Talking of Evansville, the Purple Aces misplaced at Murray State however Giula Cardona had 31 of her staff’s 49 kills — hitting .274 after having 11 errors in 73 swings — an ace, six digs and a block. The 5-foot-11 senior from Argentina, the 2023 Missouri Valley participant of the yr, had 30 kills twice already this season. She had 40 in a match final season.
Jacksonville misplaced its Convention USA match at Liberty in 5, however the Gamecocks’ Kayla Williams had 29 kills, hit .460, and added three assists, 5 of her staff’s 11 aces and 6 digs. In Stony Brook’s five-set CAA win over visiting Faculty of Charleston, Charleston’s Emily Banitt had 28 kills, hitting .303, with an help, 17 digs and two blocks, and Stony Brook’s Kali Moore had 26 kills, an help, eight digs and a block. In Denver’s five-set Summit victory at North Dakota, Cassie Davis had 27 kills, hitting .478, with an help, two aces, eight digs and a block. Montana gained its Large Sky match at Weber State in 5 units as Jourdain Kamps had a career-high 26 kills, hitting .382, to go together with two digs and eight blocks, two solo.
Key outcomes, high peformances and a take a look at Sunday all comply with on this version of Volleyball Immediately.
Volleyball Sunday
The showcase NCAA Division I match Sunday is on ESPN at 1 p.m. Jap when Texas, No. 7 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, makes its first SEC journey to AVCA No. 18 Florida.
Additionally within the SEC, No. 13 Kentucky is dwelling for Missouri, No. 24 Auburn is dwelling for Texas A&M, Arkansas is at Oklahoma, Georgia is at Alabama, Tennessee is at Mississippi State and LSU is at Ole Miss.
All of the ranked ACC groups are in motion, together with No. 4 Louisville dwelling for No. 19 Georgia Tech at 1:30 p.m. on the ACC Community. High-ranked Pittsburgh is at Syracuse, No. 5 Stanford is dwelling for Wake Forest, AVCA No. 16 Florida State is at Virginia Tech, No. 17 SMU is at Boston Faculty, Miami is at Virginia, Clemson is at Notre Dame and NC State is at Cal.
The one Large 12 match is the second half of the ESPN doubleheader when No. 15 Baylor goes to No. 22 TCU. Each groups are 10-3.
The 4 Large Ten matches embrace No. 9 Wisconsin dwelling for Washington, at 13-0 one of many final three unbeatens (Pitt and South Dakota State are the others). That is Washington’s first B1G journey to Madison. Second-ranked Nebraska is dwelling for Iowa, No. 10 Purdue is dwelling for Michigan State, Northwestern is at Illinois and Ohio State goes to Indiana.
The one West Coast Convention match of the day is on ESPNU when Pepperdine goes to Washington State.
Winless watch: 0-14 Marist is dwelling for 1-13 Manhattan within the MAAC. The Purple Wolves misplaced in 4 Saturday to Iona.
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Sunday can also be the second night time of Athletes Limitless.
At 7 p.m. Jap, Workforce De La Cruz-Mejia performs Workforce Valentin-Anderson on ESPN+ after which at 9:30, Workforce Hentz performs Workforce Nuneviller on ESPNU.
After the primary two matches, Brittany Abercrombie is the person lead with 341 factors and e Bethania De La Cruz-Mejis (her staff captain) is second with 3-5. Abercrombie had 16 kills, hit .325, and had an ace, 9 digs and a solo block in her first match.
Across the nation
USC (11-3, 3-1 Large Ten) got here away with a 25-23, 22-25, 25-11, 25-18 victory over visiting Minnesota (9-5, 2-2) which performed a four-set match for the primary time this season. USC, which hit .320, obtained 19 kills from Ally Batenhorst, who hit .348 and had an help, three aces, two blocks and 6 digs. Jadyn Livings had 13 kills, hit .500, and had 4 blocks, and Adonia Faumuina had 12 kills, an help, eight digs and 5 blocks, two solo. Mia Tuaniga had two kills, 48 assists, 4 blocks and 9 digs. Minnesota, which hit .146, obtained 16 kills from Lydia Grote, who had an ace, two digs and a solo block. Julia Hanson had 9 kills, two assists, an ace, eight digs and two blocks.
Additionally within the Large Ten, Michigan (13-2, 3-1) gained in 5 at UCLA (7-6, 1-3) as 5 gamers had eight or extra kills, 19 by Allison Jacobs, who had an help, 16 digs and two blocks, one solo; and Maryland (10-5, 1-3) swept Rutgers (5-10, 0-4), which took over sole possession of final place …
Dayton simply retains on rolling. The Flyers are 14-1, 4-0 within the Atlantic 10, after sweeping for the second straight day at VCU. Lexie Almodovar had 15 kills, two blocks and 4 digs and Brooke Smith had 11 kills with one error in 11 assaults, a dig and a solo block. Additionally within the A10, in Saint Louis’s five-set win loss to Duquesne, Addy Brus had 25 kills, an help, two aces, 10 digs and 4 blocks; and in Davidson’s reverse-sweep win over George Mason, Isabel Decker had 24 kills, three assists, an ace and 15 digs …
Kansas State got here again to beat visiting Iowa State 28-30, 23-25, 28-26, 25-17, 25-20 as Aliyah Carter led with 19 kills within the Large 12 match. She had an ace, 4 digs and 5 blocks. Ella Larkin had 23 digs, seven assists and two aces. Brenna Schmidt had 4 kills, a dig and 11 blocks, one solo. Ok-State had 21 blocks, most for this system since 2014. Iowa State’s Maya Duckworth had 23 kills, 9 digs and 5 blocks, Brooke Stonestreet had 25 digs, eight assists and an ace, and Pam McCune had 10 blocks, two solo. Additionally within the Large 12, Cincinnati swept visiting UCF as Carly Glendinning had 13 kills, an help, two aces, 5 digs and a block; and Colorado beat visiting Texas Tech in 5 as Lily Dwinel had 16 kills, hit .375, and had two digs and 9 blocks …
In West Georgia’s five-set ASUN win at Austin Peay, Sanai Younger had 17 kills, hit .417 and had 4 blocks. FGCU is now 13-3, 5-0 within the ASUN after sweeping at North Florida as Skylar English, who hit .455, and Shelby Kent, who hit .467, had 17 kills every; and in Jacksonville’s four-set ASUN win over Stetson, Breanna McDonough had 23 kills, an help, 4 aces and 12 digs … Dylan Maberry had 13 kills with one error in 26 swings to hit .462 in Excessive Level’s Large South sweep of Charleston Southern, including 10 digs and a block … Yale beat Princeton in 4 within the Ivy League as Payton Bryan had 19 kills with one error in 28 swings to hit .643, and Princeton’s Sydney Daring had 24 kills, hit .404, and had an help, 4 digs and a block. Additionally within the Ivy, in Dartmouth’s sweep of Columbia, Kauany Gutz had 14 kills, hit .462, and had two aces and 9 digs … Rider beat Canisius in 4 within the MAAC and Paige Giehtbrock had 19 kills, hit .421, and had three of her staff’s 10 aces, 15 digs and three blocks …
Within the Large West, Hawai’i swept at Lengthy Seaside State, leaving each groups at 3-1, tied atop the standings with Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC Irvine and Cal State Bakersfield. Caylen Alexander had 18 kills for Hawai’i, hitting .452, to go together with an ace and 10 digs. In CSUN‘s five-set win at Cal State Fullerton, Hailey Brockway had 19 kills, two assists, 14 digs and three blocks, one solo … Towson is 14-2, 5-1 within the CAA after sweeping N. C. A&T as Victoria Barrett had 15 kills, two aces, 9 digs and two blocks. Additionally within the CAA, Hofstra gained in 5 at Campbell, however the Camels’ Gwen Wolkow had 23 kills, three assists, 10 digs and three blocks. And since I’m now following Northeastern, Brynn Smith had 13 kills, hit .345, and had 9 digs and three blocks in a sweep of visiting William & Mary. The Huskies are 5-1 within the league … Youngstown State misplaced in 5 at Northern Kentucky however Abbie Householder had 23 kills within the Horizon League defeat. Additionally within the Horizon, Wright State is 13-3, 5-0 atop the convention after hitting .422 and sweeping Cleveland State. Sam Ott had 12 kills with no errors in 25 assaults, an help, 13 digs and two blocks, and Reilly Zegunis had 11 kills with no errors in 16 assaults and an ace and three blocks …
Within the MAC, in Jap Michigan’s reverse sweep over Miami, Abby Stanford had 14 kills, hit .500, and had a dig and 10 blocks, one solo. In Buffalo’s MAC sweep of Kent State, Abby Leigh had 11 kills with no errors in 14 assaults to hit .786 and he or she had two assists, three digs and three blocks, one solo …
Northern Iowa hit .405 in a Missouri Valley sweep at UIC. Additionally within the Valley, Drake gained in 4 at Valparaiso as Ashlynn Kuhn had 19 kills, hitting .405, with three digs and two blocks … Malaya Jones had 20 kills, an help, three aces and 9 digs in Colorado State’s four-set Mountain West win over Fresno State. The Rams, 8-6, are 4-0 and stayed a sport up within the loss column over San Jose State (9-1, 4-1) as a result of it gained by forfeit when Wyoming wouldn’t play the Spartans … Saint Francis gained its NEC match in 4 at LIU and Korrin Burns had 23 kills, hitting .326 with 9 digs … In a 26-24, 25-20, 29-27 OVC sweep of Little Rock, Morehead State’s Irene Wogenstahl had 16 kills with two errors in 32 assaults and eight blocks, two solo …
Bucknell is 14-1, 6-0 within the Patriot League after sweeping at Navy for its 14th win in a row. Tijana Kostic had 11 kills with no errors in 20 assaults to hit .550 and he or she had two assists, six of her staff’s 17 aces, seven digs and a block … Mercer’s Skye Ekes had 21 kills in her staff’s five-set SoCon victory over Chattanooga. She hit .407 and had an help, an ace and a solo block … Kyndal Payne had 15 kills with one error in 21 assaults to hit .667 in Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s sweep of Lamar. She added two assists, an ace, 12 digs and a block. Additionally within the Southland, McNeese swept New Orleans and McKenzie Moore had 12 kills with no errors in 23 assaults, help, 14 digs and three blocks … Abilene Christian beat Seattle U in 5 within the WAC and Alexis Robust had 23 kills and a block … Pacific gained its WCC match over visiting Santa Clara in 5 as Alexa Edwards had 19 kills with one error in 44 assaults to hit .409 and added 4 of her staff’s 12 aces, 9 digs and two blocks, one solo. Additionally within the WCC, Nemo Seaside (all-name staff) had 13 kills and hit .333 as San Diego hit .346 and beat visiting Oregon State in 4. Teammate Isabel Clark additionally had 13 kills and three errors however in 28 swings, hit .357 and had two assists, two aces and 12 digs.
