High-ranked Pittsburgh stayed unbeaten with a sweep of visiting SMU, No. 14 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, No. 11 Oregon swept No. 16 USC, No. 12 Arizona State defeated Arizona in 4, and UCLA knocked off AVCA No. 24 Washington on Wednesday in NCAA Division I volleyball.
We’ve acquired the important thing outcomes and prime performances, a take a look at Thursday’s schedule, and an replace on prime USA gamers taking part in professionally on this version of Volleyball Right now.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
There are three Large 12 matches involving 4 ranked groups. Eighth-ranked Kansas, the one workforce with out a league loss at 12-1, 3-0, goes to West Virginia (6-9, 0-4). No. 17 TCU (11-3, 3-1) is at Utah, which isn’t ranked however stands 13-2 and can also be 3-1. No. 18 Baylor (10-4, 2-1) goes to No. 23 BYU (9-6, 2-2) and Kansas State (4-9, 2-2) performs at Cincinnati (11-3, 2-1).
The lone Large Ten match has Ohio State (7-7, 0-4) at Northwestern (3-9, 1-3).
The ACC and SEC are idle.
South Dakota State (14-0, 3-0 Summit League), the one different workforce in addition to Pitt with out a loss, is dwelling for Omaha (5-9, 3-0) in a battle of convention leaders. Third-place North Dakota State (6-6, 2-1) is at Kansas Metropolis (3-11, 1-2).
First-place Pepperdine is idle, however second-place San Francisco (10-5, 3-0) performs a West Coast Convention match at Portland (9-5, 2-2), whereas San Diego (8-6, 3-1) performs at Loyola Marymount (11-4, 3-1) and Washington State (8-5, 3-1) is at Pacific (11-5, 1-3).
UT Arlington (14-2, 4-0), the one WAC workforce with out a league loss, is dwelling for Seattle U, whereas the 2 of the three groups tied for second place go at it when Grand Canyon (10-5, 3-1) is at Utah Tech (9-5, 3-1). Southern Utah (7-8, 3-1) is dwelling for California Baptist.
Bowling Inexperienced (10-6, 5-0), the one MAC workforce with out a league loss, is dwelling for Jap Michigan (13-4, 4-1), certainly one of three groups tied for second. Central Michigan (13-4, 4-1) is at Toledo, whereas Buffalo (8-10, 4-1) is off.
Southeastern Louisiana (13-4, 5-0), tied with idle Stephen F. Austin (13-5, 5-0) atop the Southland Convention, is dwelling for Nicholls.
Georgia Southern (12-1, 2-0) places its 11-match successful streak on the road in a Solar Belt Convention match towards visiting Troy. GSU is tied atop the East Division at 2-0, whereas Texas State leads the West at 4-0.
SoCon-leading Mercer (13-3, 3-0) goes to Samford (9-5, 3-1).
Tennesse Tech (15-1, 4-0) is the one workforce unbeaten in Ohio Valley Convention play and has gained 5 in a row. The Golden Eagles play at Lindenwood (10-7, 4-1), which is tied with idle Southeast Missouri (7-10, 4-1) for second place.
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
Olivia Babcock, the 2023 VolleyballMag nationwide freshman of the yr, did nothing to harm her 2024 nationwide participant of the yr probabilities as she led Pitt (15-0. 5-0) to a 25-17, 25-18, 25-9 ACC blasting of visiting SMU (12-4, 4-1). The Panthers hit .427.
Babock had a season-high 18 kills — 12 within the second set — and hit .571 with two errors in 28 assaults and continued her serving onslaught with 4 extra aces. Babcock, who had 12 aces this previous Sunday at Boston Faculty, additionally had three blocks and 7 digs. Torrey Stafford had 13 kills with two errors in 23 assaults to hit .423 and had 4 assists, a block and 6 digs. Valeria Vazquez-Gomez had six kills, an help, three of Pitt’s 10 aces, 14 digs and two blocks, one solo, and Rachel Fairbanks had two kills in 4 errorless tries, 37 assists, an ace, a block and 7 digs.
SMU’s Natalie Foster had 5 kills in 12 errorless assaults, however her teammates mixed for 20 kills and 15 errors because the Mustangs hit .109 …
Oregon (12-2, 4-1 Large Ten) swept visiting USC (11-4, 3-2) 25-18, 27-25, 25-19. Mimi Colyer had 17 kills with one error in 37 assaults to hit .432 and had 9 digs and two blocks, one solo. Mackenzie Morris had 16 digs and three assists. Ally Batenhorst had 11 kills for USC …
Arizona State (15-2, 4-1 Large 12) gained 25-20, 23-25, 31-29, 25-15 at Arizona (12-4, 1-4) as the 2 former Pac-12 groups performed their first Large 12 match towards one another. Geli Cyr led ASU with 23 kills, hitting .302, and had a block and 17 digs. Mary Shroll had 32 digs and 5 assists and Argentina Ung had 4 kills, 42 assists, three blocks and 20 digs. Arizona’s Jaelyn Hodge had 20 kills, two assists, an ace, 4 blocks and 13 digs …
UCLA (8-6, 2-3 Large Ten) gained 25-27, 26-24, 25-22, 25-23 at Washington (13-2 3-2). Cheridyn Leverette led the Bruins with 18 kills and hit .348 to go together with three blocks and two digs. Grayce Olson had 16 kills, hit .483, and added an help, three aces 4 blocks and 5 digs. Peyton Dueck had 18 digs and two assists and Audrey Pak had three kills, 51 assists, two aces, a block and 5 digs. Emoni Bush, who hit .393, and Audra Wilmes had 13 kills every for Washington …
Temple of the American Athletic acquired 25 kills from Sydney Jones in its five-set win over Binghamton of the America East. Jones hit .327 and had 10 digs. Teammate Taylor Davenport had 21 kills, two assists, an ace, three digs and two blocks, one solo. Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva had 21 kills, six digs and three blocks … Jap Kentucky swept its ASUN match with Bellarmine as AG Vandagriff had 10 kills with one error in 18 assaults and two blocks and Jose Schmitendorf had 16 digs, 4 assists and three aces … New Hampshire of the America East swept visiting Excessive Level of the Large South as Kelly Kaufmann had 13 kills with no errors in 20 assaults to hit .650 and added two blocks …
In Rhode Island’s Atlantic 10 sweep of Fordham, Havyn Rolle had 11 kills, hit .500, and had an ace, 4 digs and 7 blocks, two solo … Houston held on for a five-set Large 12 victory over visiting Iowa State as Angela Grieve had 21 kills, an ace, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Katie Corelli had 17 kills, hit .394, and had a dig and a block and Kate Georgiades had 26 digs, 9 assists and an ace. Iowa State’s Religion DeRonde had 17 kills and Lilly Wachholz had 16 … UConn swept Providence within the Large East and Hanna Tylska had 11 kills with one error in 24 assaults …
UTEP improved to 16-2, 6-0 in Convention USA with a four-set win over visiting NM State as Kaya Weaver had 12 kills with one error in 17 swings to hit .647. She had 4 blocks, one solo … Kennesaw State got here away with a five-set CUSA victory at Jacksonville State. JSU’s Kayla Williams had 22 kills, two assists, 9 digs and two blocks … Additionally in CUSA, Western Kentucky beat Center Tennessee in 4 as Kaylee Cox had 15 kills, hit .382, and had 4 assists, seven digs and two blocks. Izzy Van De Wiele had 12 kills with no errors in 17 assaults to go together with a dig and 5 blocks, one solo …
Missouri of the SEC swept visiting Southeast Missouri State of the OVC as Jordan Iliff had 14 kills, hit .500, and had 4 of her workforce’s 10 aces, two digs and two blocks. Maya Sands had 16 digs, seven assists and two aces … Texas A&M gained its SEC match in 4 at Ole Miss as Logan Lednicky had 20 kills, hit .310, and added an ace, 15 digs and 4 blocks, two solo. Ava Underwood had 21 digs and 5 assists … Florida A&M beat visiting Bethune-Cookman in 5 as Iyonnie Sanford had 13 kills and hit .435 within the SWAC match to go together with 5 digs and a block.
USA ladies taking part in overseas
Whereas many American ladies are taking part in Athletes Limitless and/or ready for the begins of the LOVB and Professional Volleyball Federation leagues to start, loads of prime gamers are with their professional groups in different international locations,
Amongst final week’s highlights:
In Italy, Khalia Lanier had 10 kills and hit .714 for Imoco Conegliano to go together with two blocks and an ace in a sweep of Busto Arsizo … Lindsey Ruddins had eight kills and an ace in Scandicci’s sweep of Cuneo … Simone Lee had 17 kills, a block and an ace as Vallefoglia fell to Firenze in 5 units … Ashley Evans had two kills and two blocks because the setter made her A1 debut in Bergamo’s sweep of Perugia … Olympian Avery Skinner was named MVP as Chieri beat Novara in 5 units. Skinner had 17 kills and hit .310 ..
In Türkiye, the place Dana Rettke made the the transfer from Italy to Eczacibasi, she had 4 kills, two blocks and two aces in a sweep of Aras Kargo … Micaya White led Sigorta Store to a 5 set win over Sariyer with 22 kills (.327) and three blocks. Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani had 16 kills, 5 blocks and three aces … Kendall Kipp had 4 kills in its place in her Turkish League debut as VakifBank was swept by Galatasaray …
In Germany, Madelyn Robinson had 12 kills (.706) and two aces as Stuttgart swept Munster … Danielle Harbin had 15 kills, 4 blocks and three aces as Potsdam beat Efurt in 5 units … Sabrina Starks had 10 kills (.769) added a block and an ace … Krystal Rivers had 12 kills, three blocks and an ace as Stuttgart swept Wiesbaden …
In France, Lexi Hadrych earned MVP honors as TFOC upset Mulhouse in 4 units. Hadrych had 23 kills (.419) and three blocks and Karson Bacon had 5 kills and two blocks. Katelyn Evans led Mulhouse with 24 kills, three blocks and an ace and Annayka Legros had 13 kills (.667) and two blocks … Morgahn Fingall had 13 kills and three blocks as Volero Le Cannet outdueled RC Cannes in 5. Lauren Matthews led Cannes with 14 kills, 4 aces and three blocks … Setter Ella Could Powell was named MVP as Nantes swept Chamalieres and he or she had two aces and a kill …
In Brazil, Jenna Grey and Minas Tenis Clube earned their first title of the season by sweeping the Campeonato Mineiro …
And in Hungary, the place Taylor Bannister continues to be a star, Vasas took it first title of the season by successful the MEVZA (Center European) Tremendous Cup. Bannister had 14 factors within the sweep.
