SMU performed Stanford on Wednesday in entrance of two,761, second-largest volleyball crowd at Moody Coliseum and the primary time with a former president in attendance.
George Bush and his spouse Laura watched No. 5 Stanford come away with a sweep over the No. 9 Mustangs that was each bit as shut because the 25-22, 25-23, 35-33 rating indicated.
5 different ranked groups received — together with Georgia Tech pulling off a reverse sweep towards visiting Clemson — on a Wednesday that had simply 17 matches, however No. 25 Auburn misplaced in 5 to Alabama.
South Florida is alone in first place within the American Athletic Convention after a powerful sweep.
Issues are busier Thursday as we head to Holyoke, Massachusetts, for the annual Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Fame induction celebration weekend.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
There may be one match within the Massive Ten when UCLA goes to No. 11 Purdue.
The 2 matches within the Massive 12 present league-leading No. 8 Kansas residence for Kansas State and No. 22 Baylor residence for Cincinnati.
The ACC and SEC are off however there are 4 matches in The Summit League, together with the final unbeaten group within the nation, 16-0 South Dakota State. The Jackrabbits, 5-0 in convention play, go to last-place North Dakota.
The six Southland Convention matches embody each groups unbeaten in league play. Southeastern Louisiana (15-4, 7-0) — which has received 15 in a row and options the final participant from my membership, Volleyball Baton Rouge that I retired in 2019, libero Lexi Gonzalez — goes to Lamar. Stephen F. Austin (14-5, 6-0) is residence for New Orleans.
There are 4 matches within the West Coast Convention, together with Washington State, tied for the lead with idle LMU, residence for Oregon State in a battle of the 2 former Pac-12 groups.
The WAC leaders go at it when UT Arlington (16-2, 6-0) places its seven-match successful streak on the road towards visiting Grand Canyon (12-5, 5-1).
MAC-leading Buffalo (10-10, 6-1) is residence for Bowling Inexperienced (10-8, 5-2), one among 4 groups tied for second.
Northern Colorado (13-5, 4-1), tied with idle Idaho State and Sacramento State for the Massive Sky lead, is residence for Montana State (6-11, 4-2), which is alone in fourth place.
Two of the three Massive West groups tied for the lead are in motion as UC Davis (10-5, 5-1) goes to CSU Bakersfield and Cal Poly (12-5, 5-1) is residence for UC Santa Barbara. Lengthy Seashore State (11-5, 5-1) is off.
Colorado State, which holds a one-game lead over Fresno State within the Mountain West, is at San Diego State and Fresno is at Air Drive.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Stanford (14-2, 6-1) got here away with a 25-22, 25-23, 35-33 victory at SMU (13-5, 5-2), successful a wild third set and overcoming its personal serving ineptitude: The Cardinal had three aces and 22 serving errors. Stanford hit .303, whereas SMU hit .247 and had two aces and 15 errors. Notice to former President Bush: Not each match has that many missed serves. There have been 44 ties and 20 lead modifications.
Elia Rubin led Stanford with 18 kills, hitting .368, and had an help, a kind of aces, three blocks and 5 digs. Ipar Kurt had 16 kills — together with the match winner — hit .344 and had two block and a dig. On the match-ending rally, Kurt had an opportunity to finish it, however was blocked and libero Elena Oglivie made a outstanding cowl after which had the help on the final play. She had 14 digs and 5 assists. Setter Kami Miner had two kills in as many tries, 41 assists, an ace, 4 blocks and 6 digs.
SMU’s Maya Tabron had 11 kills, hit .400, and had three assists, an ace, seven digs and three blocks, one solo. Naya Shime had 10 kills, hit .318, and had 11 digs and three blocks. Celia Cullen had a kill, 28 assists, a block and 9 digs …
Within the different ACC match, No. 17 Georgia Tech (12-4, 4-3) needed to pull off a 24-26, 27-29, 25-21, 25-16, 19-17 reverse sweep over last-place Clemson (8-10, 0-7). Bianca Bertolino had 23 kills for GT to go together with three assists, an ace, 16 digs and two blocks. Tamara Otene had 20. kills, two aces, 18 digs and two blocks. Clemson’s Azyah Dailey had a career-high 30 kills, hit .313, and had 9 digs and a solo blocks. Mia McGrath had 18 kills, three assists, 12 digs and two solo blocks …
There have been two SEC matches as No. 16 Kentucky (10-7, 4-2) received in 4 at Tennessee (9-7, 2-4) and Alabama (10-7, 2-4) knocked off visiting No. 25 Auburn (14-3, 4-2) in 5. In Kentucky’s 25-21, 14-25, 25-22, 25-21 victory, Brooklyn DeLeye led with 23 kills, hit .304, and had an help, an ace and 10 digs. Asia Thigpen, a freshman making her first begin, had 15 kills with one error in 24 assaults, hitting .583, to go together with an help, eight digs and a solo block. Tennessee’s Hayden Kubik had 14 kills, 15 digs and a block. Alabama received 25-23, 15-25, 22-25, 26-24, 16-14 as 4 gamers had 10 or extra kills, 15 apiece by Sophie Agee and Chaise Campbell. Francesca Bertucci had 25 digs and eight assists. Bella Bell had 22 kills and hit .465 for Auburn and added three blocks, one solo. Alexis Dacosta had 24 digs and 5 assists …
No. 13 Arizona State (17-2, 6-1) swept its Massive 12 match with visiting Houston (8-8, 3-3). Geli Cyr led with 13 kills, an help, two aces, 11 digs and two blocks and Claire Jeter had 12 kills with no errors in 27 assaults to hit .444 and had two digs and a solo block. Houston’s Angela Grieve had 16 kills, an ace, six digs and two blocks … No. 18 TCU (13-4, 5-2) swept at Texas Tech (9-9, 1-5) as Melanie Parra had 19 kills, hit .400, and had an help, two aces, 10 digs and a block … No. 24 BYU (11-6, 4-3) beat visiting Iowa State (8-8, 2-3) behind 13 kills every from Claire Littel and Elli Mortensen … West Virginia (7-11, 1-6) broke by means of with its first league win, a four-set victory over visiting UCF (8-7, 1-5). Hailey Inexperienced had 19 kills with one error in 31 swings to hit .581 and had a solo block. Cassidy Tanton had 17 kills, two assists and eight digs … Colorado (10-8, 3-3) received 15-25, 25-17, 25-21, 25-27, 18-16 at Arizona (12-5, 1-5) as Lily Dwinell had 20 kills, hitting .356, and added two digs and two blocks. Ana Burilovic and Sydney Jordan had 16 kills every. Burilovic had an help, two aces, 4 digs and three blocks, one solo, and Jordan, who hit .400, had an help, three aces, 16 digs and two blocks. Arizona’s Carlie Cisneros had 19 kills, Jaelyn Hodge 17 and 6 blocks, and Jordan Wilson had 16 kills, two aces, 11 digs and three blocks …
South Florida (11-7, 7-0) took over sole possession of first place within the American Athletic Convention with a 25-21, 25-14, 25-23 sweep of visiting Rice (11-5, 6-1). The 7-0 begin is this system’s greatest convention begin since 2002 when it went 12-0 in Convention USA. Maria Clara Andrade had 21 kills, hit .405, and had two blocks and 5 digs. Naiya Sawtelle added 19 kills, hit .531, and had two blocks and 9 digs. Lia Schneider had 20 kills and 6 assists. Rice bought 12 kills from Samarah Hill … Colgate of the Patriot League received in 4 towards visiting Binghamton of America East, which bought 28 kills from Tsvetelina Ilieva, who hit .379 and had an help, an ace and 10 digs. Colgate’s Abby Shadwick had 19 kills, hit .400, and had two assists, an ace, 9 digs and two solo blocks … UAlbany hit .339 in a four-set America East win at Siena of the MAAC. Shynelle Woroniuk had 16 kills, an help, two aces, three digs and a block. Kiki Provatas had 4 aces to go together with two assists and two digs …
Northwestern (4-11, 2-5) received its Massive Ten match over visiting Iowa (9-10, 3-4) in 4 as Kennedy Hill had 12 kills in 19 errorless assaults to hit .632 and had three digs and 6 blocks, one solo. Sophia Summers had six kills, hit .308, and had an help, 5 of her group’s 13 aces, three digs and 5 blocks, two solo. Rylen Reid had six aces … Additionally within the B1G, Illinois (12-5, 4-3) beat visiting Indiana (9-8, 3-2) in 4. Raina Terry had 16 kills, 10 digs and 5 blocks … And Hampton dropped to 0-20 because the Pirates of the CAA misplaced in 4 to visiting Norfolk State of the MEAC.
SoCon strikes event
From the Southern Convention:
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The 2024 Ingles Southern Convention Volleyball Championship, initially slated for Asheville, North Carolina, will likely be contested on Nov. 21-24 at Wofford School in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
“We heard very clearly from a few of our closest companions – Ingles Markets, Discover Asheville, Harrah’s Cherokee Middle – Asheville, and the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports activities Fee – that it’s in everybody’s greatest curiosity to maneuver this 12 months’s Ingles SoCon Volleyball Championship to permit Asheville time to get better from the consequences of Hurricane Helene” stated SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross. “Asheville has been an impressive host for a lot of SoCon championships and we look ahead to taking part in on the Harrah’s Cherokee Middle – Asheville subsequent 12 months. We lengthen prayers and assist to everybody who has been affected by this tragic and heartbreaking state of affairs. We respect Wofford School’s willingness to host the Championship on quick discover and are wanting ahead to offering an impressive championship expertise for our student-athletes, coaches and followers.”
The Southern Convention helps with the restoration efforts in Asheville by partnering with World Central Kitchen to assist present meals. Donations will be made right here.
All pre-sale tickets that had been bought for the event in Asheville will likely be honored at Wofford.
