There have been no upsets Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball on an evening when second-ranked Nebraska was taken to the restrict by No. 9 Purdue and No. 4 Louisville needed to win in 5 at No. 21 Florida State in the one matches between ranked groups.
There have been, in fact, reverse sweeps. Boston Faculty did it at Cal, Jacksonville did it at West Georgia, Bryant did it to visiting New Hampshire and Drake did it to visiting Murray State.
Strains of the evening: In Purdue Fort Wayne’s wild 26-28, 25-23, 25-22, 24-26, 28-25 Horizon League victory over visiting Oakland, Panna Ratkai had 30 kills for the third time in her profession, hit .289 after having 9 errors in 78 swings, and added two assists, three aces, 16 digs and three blocks. There have been 20 ties and 4 lead adjustments within the fifth set!
Lipscomb’s Karlie McNabb had 28 kills and hit .480 in her workforce’s five-set ASUN win over North Alabama to go along with an help, two aces and 7 digs. Drake’s Macy Daufeldt had 28 kills for Drake in its reverse-sweep win over visiting Murray State as she hit .355 and had an ace, 12 digs and two solo blocks. Chattanooga misplaced its SoCon match in 5 to visiting The Citadel, however Char’e Vanzandt had 27 kills, hit .389, and had three aces, 4 digs and two blocks. And a nod to Dayton’s Lexi Almodovar, who had 21 kills in a sweep of Loyola Chicago, hitting .500 with two assists, 5 digs and two blocks.
Key NCAA outcomes and prime performances observe.
Additionally on this version of Volleyball Right now, we have now UCLA hiring John Hawks to switch John Speraw as its males’s coach and Friday’s outcomes from the 2 Athletes Limitless matches.
NCAA volleyball Saturday
The ACC has three matches as No. 1 and unbeaten Pittsburgh, which swept the Mustangs on Wednesday, goes to No. 14 SMU, No. 6 Stanford is dwelling for Boston Faculty and Syracuse is at Cal.
The Huge Ten reveals No. 2 Nebraska dwelling for Rutgers, No. 9 Purdue at Iowa, No. 14 Minnesota dwelling for Maryland and Illinois at Michigan State.
Each one of many 4 Huge 12 matches includes a ranked workforce. No. 8 Kansas is at Cincinnati, No. 17 TCU is at No. 23 BYU, No. 18 Baylor goes to Utah and No. 12 Arizona State performs at Texas Tech.
The SEC is off.
Within the Huge East, No. 5 Creighton is at St. John’s and within the Atlantic 10, No. 22 Dayton is dwelling once more for Loyola Chicago.
South Dakota State, at 15-0 the one workforce apart from Pittsburgh with no defeats, places its 4-0 Summit League report on the road in opposition to North Dakota.
Pepperdine, tied with San Francisco atop the WCC, performs LMU, tied with Washington State a sport again. USF performs Oregon State and WSU performs Saint Mary’s.
4 of the 5 prime groups within the CAA acquired at it once more when Charleston faces Towson and Northeastern performs Hofstra.
UT Arlington, 15-2 and 5-0 within the WAC, has gained six in a row and performs at Abilene Christian.
Winless watch: 0-18 Hampton performs a CAA match at UNC Wilmington.
NCAA volleyball Friday
ACC: Fourth-ranked Louisville (13-2, 5-0) got here away with a 16-25, 25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 15-9 victory at No. 21 Florida State (11-4, 3-2). Anna DeBeer had her greatest match of the season, ending with 23 kills — her earlier season excessive was 13 — and hit .333 to go along with an ace, 11 digs and two blocks. Audrey Koenig had 22 kills for FSU, hitting .340, with three aces, 9 digs and a block …
No. 6 Stanford (12-2, 4-1) swept visiting Syracuse (12-5, 0-5) as Sami Francis had 12 kills and .524 within the 25-22, 25-13, 25-8 victory. Francis, who had one error in 21 assaults, had six blocks. The Orange hit minus .023 …
NC State (8-5, 3-2) ended the eight-match profitable streak of visiting North Carolina (12-2, 4-1) as Amanda Rice had 19 kills, hit .484 and had an ace, six digs and 5 blocks, one solo. NC State drew a Reynolds Coliseum report crowd of three,431 … No. 20 Georgia Tech (10-4 ,2-3) swept visiting Virginia Tech (6-9, 0-5) … Duke (7-9, 3-2) gained in 4 at Wake Forest (10-6, 2-3) as Kerry Keefe and Taylor Williams had 16 kills apiece … Miami (11-5, 2-3) rallied to beat visiting Notre Dame (9-5, 2-3) 25-22, 19-25, 19-25, 25-13, 15-12 … Virginia (14-2, 4-1) swept at Clemson (8-8, 0-5) … Boston Faculty (8-9, 1-4) pulled off a reverse sweep at Cal (9-8, 1-4) as Halle Schroder had 16 kills within the 21-25, 21-25, 25-17, 25-19, 19-17 victory. She added an ace, 18 digs and two blocks, one solo. Brooklyn Yelland had 22 digs, six assists and an ace.
BIG TEN: Second-ranked Nebraska (15-1, 5-0) got here away with a 25-22, 22-25, 23-25, 25-22, 17-15 victory over No. 9 Purdue (12-4, 3-2) which each out-hit Nebraska (.311 to .242) and out-blocked the Huskers (15-5.5). Nebraska, which confronted match level at 15-14, rallied on kills from Merritt Beason, Taylor Landfair and Beason to finish it. Beason completed with 22 kills and had an help, an ace, eight digs and two blocks. Eva Hudson had 26 kills for Purdue, hitting .349, to go along with 15 digs and a block, and Chloe Chicoine had 22 kills, hitting .327, and had 13 digs and a block …
All the different 5 matches had been sweeps. No. 3 Penn State (15-1, 5-0) gained at Michigan State (7-9, 0-5) as Jess Mruzik had 14 kills, an ace and 10 digs … Illinois (10-5, 2-3) gained at Michigan (13-3, 3-2) as Raina Terry had 16 kills, hit .364, and had an help, a dig and 4 blocks, one solo … No. 14 Minnesota (10-5, 3-2) hit .358 and beat visiting Indiana (9-6, 2-3). Lydia Grote had 13 kills with no errors in 23 assaults to hit .565 and had two digs and three blocks .. Iowa (9-8, 3-2) beat visiting Rutgers (5-11, 0-5) … No. 10 Wisconsin (10-4, 4-1) beat Maryland (10-6, 1-4) because the Badgers out-blocked the guests 14-1. CC Crawford, who had eight kills with one error in 16 assaults, had an ace, two digs and 9 block assists. Maryland hit .043.
SEC: Simply one of many league’s ranked groups was in motion as No. 19 Florida (11-4, 2-2) beat visiting Mississippi State (7-6. 1-3) in 4. Kennedy Martin had 14 kills, two aces, 5 digs and 4 blocks … Georgia (7-7, 1-3) drew a report dwelling crowd of 8,376 — shattering the earlier better of 5,303 — and beat South Carolina (9-5, 0-3) in 5 as Sophie Fisher had 18 kills, two aces, three digs and 9 blocks. Erykah Lovett had 17 kills, hit .400 and had 4 aces, 10 digs and three blocks because the Bulldogs out-blocked South Carolina 18-2. Riley Whitesides had 22 kills for South Carolina to go along with three aces, eight digs and a block … LSU (10-6, 2-3) beat visiting Oklahoma (7-6, 1-4) in 4 regardless of 21 kills by OU’s Alexis Shelton, who hit .359 and had an help, an ace, six digs and 4 blocks, one solo. LSU’s Jurneee Robinson had 17 kills, two assists, three of her workforce’s 11 aces, eight digs and three solo blocks … Missouri (11-5, 2-2) swept visiting Alabama (9-6, 1-3) as Jordan Iliff had 17 kills with three errors in 28 assaults to hit .500 and added three aces and two blocks, one solo.
AROUND THE NATION: Fifth-ranked Creighton (14-2, 5-0) swept its Huge East match at Villanova (11-5, 4-1) as Ava Martin had 13 kills because the Bluejays matched this system’s greatest begin. Martin had one error in 25 assaults to hit .480 and had an help, 4 of her workforce’s 9 aces, 4 digs and a block. Setter Kendra Wait had 5 kills in 10 errorless tries, 33 assists, an ace, 9 digs and 7 blocks … Additionally within the Huge East, Marquette (8-6, 4-1) saved tempo with a four-set win at St. John’s (13-6, 2-3) as Aubrey Hamilton had 17 kills, hit .316, and had an help, seven digs and three blocks, one solo … DePaul (12-5, 4-1) gained in 5 at Georgetown as Audrey Kemp had 22 kills, hit .311, and had three digs and 4 blocks …
No. 22 Dayton (16-1, 6-0) swept visiting Loyola Chicago (9-8, 4-2) within the Atlantic 10 as Lexi Almodovar had 21 kills with two errors in 38 swings, two assists, 5 digs and two blocks. She’s averaging 4.55 kills per set. Karissa Kaminski had 16 digs, 4 assists and two aces … Within the different A10 match, VCU beat visiting Saint Louis in 4 and Julia Rienks had 22 kills, an ace, three digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Anja Kujundzic had 24 digs and eight assists …
UC Davis (10-5, 5-1) took over sole possession of first within the Huge West with a 22-25, 25-21, 28-26, 25-17 win at Hawai’i (9-6, 3-2). Oliva Utterback had 21 kills, hit .318, and had an help, two aces, 5 digs and 4 blocks …
Buffalo (9-10, 5-1) is alone atop the MAC — with 4 groups tied for second a sport again within the loss column — after its five-set win at Miami by which Katrin Trebichavska had 22 kills, an help, an ace, 14 digs and two blocks. A day after upsetting Bowling Inexperienced, Jap Michigan (11-10, 5-2) acquired swept at Toledo (12-7. 5-2), which acquired 15 kills from Izzy Granger, who hit .323 and had an ace and 17 digs. Bowling Inexperienced’s (10-8, 5-2) woes continued because it misplaced in 5 at dwelling for the second straight evening, this time to Central Michigan (14-5, 5-2). CMU’s Natalia Rejment had 17 kills, hit .324 and had three assists, an ace, 9 digs and three blocks …
In Jacksonville’s ASUN reverse sweep at West Georgia, Breanna McDonough had 26 kills, an help, two aces and 4 digs … Additionally within the ASUN, Lipscomb improved to 8-8 however stayed tied atop the league at 5-0 with FGCU and Central Arkansas. Karlie McNabb had 28 kills and hit .480 in her workforce’s five-set win over North Alabama to go along with an help, two aces and 7 digs …
Madi Malone had 25 kills in a five-set win for Milwaukee (11-7, 6-0) at Northern Kentucky within the Horizon League to go along with two assists, 12 digs and three blocks. Wright State (14-3, 6-0) saved tempo with a sweep at Youngstown State as Sam Ott and Maya Ayro had 17 kills every … In a wild one at Purdue Fort Wayne, the Mastodons beat visiting Oakland 26-28, 25-23, 25-22, 24-26, 28-25 as Panna Ratkai had 30 kills …
South Florida gained its American Athletic match at Wichita State in 4 as Nalya Sawtelle had 20 kills and Maria Clare Andrade 19 and 20 digs. Rice, which swept North Texas, and USF are tied atop the AAC at 5-0 … Catyon White had 23 kills, 13 digs and a block for Gardner-Webb in its four-set Huge South win at Charleston Southern … Faculty of Charleston (14-5, 6-1) swept visiting Towson (14-3, 5-2) and is tied with Hofstra (10-6, 6-1), which beat Northeastern (7-8, 5-2) in 4, atop the CAA. Delaware (9-4, 5-1) was off …
All 4 Ivy League matches had been sweeps, together with Yale (9-3, 4-0) beating Cornell to construct a one-game lead over Harvard (8-5, 3-1), which misplaced at Princeton … Howard swept Morgan State within the MEAC and Rya McKinnon had 20 kills, hit .500, and had two assists, an ace, 12 digs and a block … Saint Francis hit .337 in an NEC sweep of Central Connecticut as Korrin Burns had 18 kills with three errors in 28 assaults to go along with three aces and 5 digs …
App State, which has handled the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, went to Outdated Dominion and acquired a four-set win to enhance to 9-3, 3-0 within the Solar Belt. ODU (13-3, 2-1) had gained 10 in a row.
Hawks returns to UCLA to educate NCAA-champion males
From the UCLA information launch:
John Hawks, who was an assistant coach for UCLA from 2015-22 and head coach at Loyola College Chicago from 2022-24, has been named the third head coach in UCLA males’s volleyball historical past.
Hawks additionally at present serves as the pinnacle coach of the U21 USA Nationwide Workforce, and not too long ago gained Gold on the NORCECA Qualifiers this previous summer time in Mexico, incomes a bid to the World Championships in China subsequent summer time.
In Hawks’ two seasons as head coach of Loyola Chicago, he posted a 40-17 report (.702 profitable proportion), earned Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Affiliation (MIVA) Coach of the Yr honors in 2023, and coached six All-People.
Click on right here for the whole information launch.
Hawks replaces his outdated boss, John Speraw, who resigned to turn out to be the CEO of USA Volleyball after profitable the final two NCAA championships.
Workforce Abercrombie, Workforce De La Cruz-Mejia win in Athletes Limitless
Workforce (Brittany) Abercrombie defeated Workforce (Kayla) Caffey 73-69 — however misplaced two of the three units in a 25-17, 24-26, 24-26) end result — on Friday evening in Mesa, Arizona.
Within the nightcap, Workforce (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejia beat Workforce Nootsara (Tomkom) 79-62, profitable 25-12, 26-24, 28-26.
Abercrombie led her workforce with 278 factors, getting a match-high 16 kills, an ace and 10 digs. Morgan Hentz had 21 digs and 7 assists. Brooke Nuneviller led Workforce Caffey with 11 kills, an help, 10 digs and a solo block.
Leketor Member-Meneh led the winners with 13 kills, hitting .370, and had two assists, two solo blocks and eight digs. De La Cruz-Mejia had 12 kills, an help, 4 of her workforce’s six aces and 4 digs. Natalia Valentin-Anderson had 19 digs, 31 assists and an ace to take prime factors honors with 364.
Madi Kingdon Rishel led Nootsara with 16 kills, 9 digs and a solo block.
The following AU matches are Sunday when Nootsara performs Abercrombie and Caffey performs De La Cruz-Mejia.
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And click on right here for the second-match recap.
