After which there have been none …
St. Thomas scored an enormous Summit League upset Thursday night time, knocking off South Dakota State, the final unbeaten crew in NCAA Division I volleyball this season. The Jackrabbits (22-1, 11-1 Summit) had been down 14-8 within the fifth however sided out after which continued on a 5-0 run to tie it at 14. However St. Thomas (15-10, 7-6) regrouped to win the following two factors and are available away with a 22-25, 25-22, 25-16, 15-25, 16-14 victory.
Second-ranked Nebraska retains on rolling. The Huskers traveled to No. 12 Oregon for his or her first Massive Ten match in Eugene and made quick work of the Geese 25-12, 26-24, 25-18 for his or her twentieth win in a row.
Washington went within the different path, taking part in its first B1G match not solely at No. 13 Minnesota but in addition towards its former coach. The Huskies scored a four-set upset.
The one different ranked crew in motion was No. 18 TCU, which swept at UCF within the Massive 12.
Loyola Marymount is alone atop the West Coast Convention after beating second-place Pepperdine17-25, 25-19, 32-30, 36-34 — for its eighth victory in a row.
5 groups are inside a recreation of one another within the loss column atop the Massive West after UC Riverside, which isn’t one in every of them, surprised visiting Hawai’i in 5 for this system’s first victory ever over the Rainbow Wahine. They first performed in 1974 an UH was 29-0 towards the Highlanders.
Southeastern Louisiana swept visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi within the Southland Convention and prolonged its successful streak to 21.
There have been, in fact, reverse sweeps. Lamar did it to visiting Nicholls and Houston Christian did it to visiting Texas A&M-Commerce within the Southland Convention, Belmont pulled it off at Evansville (which was taking part in with out NCAA kills chief Giulia Cardona) within the Missouri Valley, and Outdated Dominion did it at James Madison within the Solar Belt in a wild one, 17-25, 27-29, 25-22, 30-28, 15-10.
Cardona, the senior from Argentina, is probably going executed for the season after breaking her finger in observe this week. She holds an enormous lead in kills within the NCAA with 549, nonetheless 56 forward of Hawai’i’s Caylen Alexander.
Strains of the day:
— Talking of Alexander, in that aforementioned Hawai’i loss, she had 36 kills, hit .318, and had 4 assists, an ace and 14 digs.
— Troy gained in 5 at Southern Miss within the Solar Belt and Tori Hester had a season-high 33 kills, an ace, 22 digs and three blocks, one solo. Hester took a program-record 100 of her crew’s 201 swings.
— In ODU’s win at JMU, JMU’s Brenya Reid had 29 kills, two aces, eight digs and two blocks, one solo, and ODU’s Myah Conway had 26 kills, an help, eight digs and 5 blocks. Reid has 87 kills in her final three matches.
— Utah Valley’s Avery Shewell had 29 kills within the Wolverines’ five-set WAC win at Abilene Christian as she hit .367 and had 4 aces, eight digs and two blocks. Teammate Sami Blackett had 27 kills, an help, three aces, 4 digs and two blocks, one solo.
— Kyndal Payne of Corpus Christi had 20 kills in that three-set loss to Southeastern Louisiana, hitting .356 with 11 digs and three blocks.
The San Diego Mojo of the Professional Volleyball Federation has a brand new proprietor.
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NCAA volleyball Friday
There are 9 ACC matches, together with No. 1 Pittsburgh dwelling for No. 25 North Carolina, No. 4 Louisville at Syracuse, No. 8 Stanford dwelling for Clemson, No. 10 SMU dwelling for Duke, AVCA No. 16 Georgia Tech at Cal and No. 24 Florida State dwelling for Wake Forest. Virginia is at Virginia Tech and Notre Dame is at Boston School.
All three Massive 12 matches embrace a ranked crew as No. 6 Kansas is at Arizona, No. 9 Arizona State is dwelling for Kansas State and No. 21 BYU is at No. 23 Utah.
Within the Massive Ten, No. 3 Penn State is at Northwestern, No. 7 Wisconsin is dwelling for Iowa, No. 11 Purdue goes to Indiana, No. 20 USC is at Illinois, Michigan State is at Rutgers and Ohio State is at Michigan.
The SEC has No. 16 Kentucky dwelling for Texas A&M, No. 22 Florida dwelling for Auburn, Oklahoma at Ole Miss, LSU at Tennessee and South Carolina at Arkansas.
Fifth-ranked and Massive East-leading Creighton, which has gained 14 in a row, is dwelling for Butler and No. 15 Dayton, which has gained 17 in a row, is dwelling for an Atlantic 10 match with Davidson.
Convention USA-leading Western Kentucky, which has gained 17 in a row, goes to Sam Houston.
Northern Iowa, main the Missouri Valley and on a 13-match successful streak, is dwelling for UIC.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
South Dakota State’s lead in The Summit League is now one recreation over idle Omaha. In St. Thomas’s victory at SDSU, Lauren Galvin led with 16 kills, two assists, an ace, seven digs and two blocks. South Dakota State, which hit .197, bought 21 kills from Sylvie Zgonc, who had 4 assists, two blocks and 13 digs. Additionally in The Summit, in Kansas Metropolis’s four-set win at Denver, Kaia Dunford had 21 kills, hit .409 and had an ace, eight digs and a block …
Oregon drew a file crowd of 8,566 however the Geese (17-5, 9-4) bought swept by Nebraska (23-1, 13-0), which took a one-game Massive Ten lead within the win column over idle Penn State. The Huskers bought 14 kills from Harper Murray and 13 from Taylor Landfair. Murray hit .414 and had two assists, an ace and 10 digs and Landfair hit .407 and had an help, two digs and two blocks. Bergen Reilly had three kills in six errorless tries, 33 assists and an ace. Oregon, which hit .133, bought 13 kills from Mimi Colyer …
Washington (18-5, 8-5) gained 25-21, 25-23, 14-25, 25-22 at Minnesota (16-7, 9-4) regardless of hitting .123 and having fewer kills (54-46) and blocks (16-10). Emoni Bush led Washington with 19 kills, two assists, one in every of her crew’s 13 aces, two blocks and 12 digs. Molly Wilson had a kill, 37 assists, two aces, 4 blocks and 15 digs, Julia Hunt had six aces to go together with 4 kills, 4 blocks and 6 digs. Minnesota’s Julia Hanson had 15 kills, an ace, three blocks and 6 digs and Melanie Shaffmaster had 4 kills with no errors in 9 makes an attempt, an ace, 10 digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Her crew hit .248 …
Additionally within the Massive Ten, Maryland beat visiting Michigan State in 4 and UCLA swept at Rutgers as Anna Dodson had 11 kills with one error in 17 assaults and 4 blocks …
WCC-leader LMU (19-4, 10-1 WCC) hit simply .197 but it surely was sufficient to win in 4 at Pepperdine (12-9, 9-1). Paige Flickinger led with 18 kills and had an help, two aces, a block and 17 digs. Sophia Meyers had 13 kills, an help, an ace, a block and 10 digs. Grace Chillingworth led Pepperdine with 19 kills and had three aces and 18 digs. Birdie Hendrickson had 16 kills, an help, an ace, a block and 11 digs …
In TCU’s Massive 12 sweep of visiting UCF, Melanie Parra had 15 kills, hit .344, and had an ace, 5 digs and two blocks, and Jalyn Gibson had 14 kills, hit .458, and had six digs and a block. Additionally within the Massive 12, Cincinnati hit .407 and swept visiting West Virginia as 5 gamers had all of the Bearcats’ kills, 12 by Sydney Nolan. She had one error in 20 assaults to hit .550 and had an help, two digs and a block …
Idle Idaho State (9-2) and Northern Colorado (9-2) at the moment are tied for the Massive Sky lead after UNC was swept by visiting Sacramento State (8-3). Sacramento State, tied with idle Weber State, bought 19 kills from Bridgette Smith, the league chief in kills who hit .459 and had an help, an ace and eight digs …
In UC Riverside’s comeback victory over Hawai’i, Trinity Sheridan had 19 kills, an ace, six digs and two blocks. Jessica Dean had 27 digs, eight assists and two aces … In Belmont’s comeback win at Evansville, Brooke Gilleland had 20 kills and 9 digs, whereas Evansville’s Angelica Gonzalez Maltes had a career-high 21 kills, hit .400, and had 5 digs and two blocks …
Idle Colorado State’s lead grew within the Mountain West when second-place San Jose State misplaced in 4 at UNLV and third-place Fresno State misplaced in 5 at San Diego State … Furman upset Mercer, which had gained eight in a row, within the SoCon however freshman MeMe Davis had a career-best 37 digs to go together with 4 assists.
San Diego Mojo get new proprietor
The San Diego Mojo of the Professional Volleyball Federation introduced that Gary E. Jacobs has acquired controlling possession.
Extra from the Mojo:
A San Diegan since 1966 and alumnus of the College of California San Diego (UCSD), Jacobs is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs Excessive Tech Excessive Constitution Faculty and majority proprietor of the Lake Elsinore Storm, the Single-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres. He’s the managing director of Jacobs Funding Firm (JIC).
Jacobs reunites with San Diego Mojo President Billy Johnson, with whom he labored as proprietor the ECHL’s Las Vegas Wranglers skilled hockey crew the place Johnson served because the membership’s President and Chief Working Officer from 2003 to 2014. The Wranglers established themselves because the preeminent skilled resident team-sports group in Las Vegas, paving the way in which for the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights and the fast growth of the skilled sports activities tradition that adopted.
