The San Diego Smash — Geena Urango, Toni Rodriguez, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans — gained the inaugural AVP League on Sunday.
There have been no NCAA upsets as the highest groups all gained, together with No. 1 Pittsburgh, No. 4 Louisville and No. 5 Creighton and No. 10 SMU defeated No. 25 North Carolina in the one match involving two ranked groups.
Reverse sweeps? After all: Syracuse did it to visiting Notre Dame within the ACC and Binghamton did it to visiting New Hampshire in a battle for first place within the America East.
Strains of the day: Towson gained in 4 at Stony Brook behind 27 kills from Victoria Barrett, who hit .380 and had two assists, an ace, 18 digs and 4 blocks, two solo. Texas A&M misplaced in 4 at Tennessee, however Logan Lednicky had 27 kills, hit .404 and added 9 digs and a block.
San Diego Smash wins AVP League
The San Diego Smash earned the distinction of being the primary champions of the AVP League, defeating the Dallas Dream in a “Golden Set” tiebreaker on Sunday in Carson, California.
The Smash’s Geena Urango and Toni Rodriguez opened the championship sport with a 15-9, 15-9 mauling of Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg. However the Dream’s Miles Partain and Andy Benesh bested Chase Budinger and Miles Evans 15-12, 15-11 in a battle of the pairs who represented the USA within the Paris Olympics. That meant a Golden Set would break the tie.
Urango-Rodriguez constructed an 8-5 lead and Budinger-Evans closed out a 15-13 victory, with Chase’s spike scoring the profitable level. The Smash got here into the playoffs because the No. 4 seed with an 8-8 report within the common season.
The third-place match, gained by the Miami Mayhem over the New York Nitro additionally was settled in a Golden Set. The Mayhem’s Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner topped Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander in three units (29-27 within the third) and the Nitro’s Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes swept April Ross and Alix Klineman. Trevor and Theo handed the retiring 2021 Olympic gold medalists a 8-7 edge within the Golden Set, and April and Alix had been as much as the duty within the last competitors of their careers, profitable 15-12.
Larry Hamel’s full report posts Tuesday together with images by Jim Wolf.
Additionally, the group of Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft took house $20,000 after falling 21-17, 21-18 within the gold-medal match to Brazilians Carol Solberg and Barbara Seixas within the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Elite16 occasion in Rio de Janeiro.
Earlier on Sunday, Kraft and Cannon blitzed the German pair of Sandra Ittlinger and Kim Van de Velde 21-14, 21-16 within the semifinals.
The USA pair, the one one left after the qualifier, captured their third consecutive Elite16 medal. They received silver in Gstaad silver and bronze in Vienna in July.
NCAA volleyball Monday
The spotlight, in fact, is “900 Sq. Toes,” the weekly video Zoom with Emily Ehman and yours really. We’re going at it somewhat later Monday night and can put up ASAP.
Additionally Monday is the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot and this previous week has given our dozen voters lots to think about. That posts late morning.
And there are matches, too, 5 in all. There are two WAC matches, together with one of many hottest groups within the nation, UT Arlington, going 82 miles to the southwest to Tarleton State. UTA (23-2, 13-0), which has clinched the highest seed within the WAC Match, has 14 in a row. Additionally within the WAC, second-place Grand Canyon goes to California Baptist.
Within the SWAC, Alcorn faces Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Southern performs Grambling and Alabama A&M faces Mississippi Valley.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
Fifth-ranked Creighton (23-2, 14-0) hit .356 and mainly wrapped up the Massive East regular-season title with a 21-25, 25-12, 25-18, 25-13 victory at Marquette (18-7, 12-2). Norah Sis led with 23 kills, hitting .429 after having two errors in 49 assaults to go along with a dig and a block. Ava Martin had 16 kills, hit .424, and had two aces and 11 digs. Setter Kendra Wait had two kills, 44 assists, three aces, 13 digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Creighton held a 12-3 benefit in blocks as Marquette hit .146. The Golden Eagles, who had gained 28 Massive East matches in a row at house, received 13 kills from Aubrey Hamilton and 12 from Hattie Bray … Additionally within the Massive East, UConn gained in 4 at Georgetown as Hanna Tylska had 19 kills, hit .372, and had three assists, two aces, 12 digs and a block …
Within the ACC, the 2 leaders, No. 1 PIttsburgh and No. 4 Louisville swept. Pitt crushed visiting Duke, which had 19 kills however 28 errors, 25-10, 25-11, 25-13. Torrey Stafford had 13 kills with one error in 25 assaults, 4 assists, an ace, 5 digs, and three blocks. Louisville did the identical at Boston School, profitable 25-21, 25-18, 25-8.
No. 10 SMU beat visiting No. 25 North Carolina in 4, led by Jamison Wheeler, who had 16 kills, hit .420, and had eight digs and three blocks. No. 24 Florida State beat visiting NC State in 4, Miami beat visiting Wake Forest in 4, and Syracuse, as famous, got here again for a 20-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-22, 15-12 victory over visiting Notre Dame. Zharia Harris-Waddy had 17 kills, hit .400, and had an ace, three digs and 11 blocks, one solo …
The 2 ranked Massive Ten groups in motion gained. No. 11 Purdue swept visiting Michigan and USC gained in 4 at Indiana. Eva Hudson had 19 kills and hit .350 for Purdue with an ace, six digs and three blocks. Michigan’s Valentina Vaulet had 20 kills, hit .400, and had an help, an ace and two blocks. USC received 20 kills from Ally Batenhorst, who hit .354 and had an help, 18 digs and two blocks. Northwestern gained in 4 at Iowa as Kennedy Hill had 11 kills, hit .389, and added an ace and 11 blocks …
Kentucky (16-7, 10-2) holds a half-game lead within the SEC over Missouri (18-5) and a full sport over Florida (18-5, 9-3) in any case three gained Sunday. Kentucky swept visiting LSU for its seventh win in a row. Missouri swept visiting South Carolina for its ninth win in a row as Mychael Vernon had 14 kills, hit .324, and added an ace, eight digs and two blocks. Florida swept visiting Alabama as Kennedy Martin had 16 kills, hit .500 and had three aces, six digs and a block. Tennessee beat visiting Texas A&M in 4 regardless of 27 kills by Logan Lednicky, who hit .404 and had 9 digs and a block. Tennessee’s Nina Cajic had 18 kills with one error in 49 assaults to hit .347 and had an help, an ace, 4 digs and 4 blocks. Oklahoma gained in 4 at Mississippi State as Alexis Shelton had 17 kills, 11 digs and 5 blocks …
Howard received pushed to the restrict to enhance to 20-5, 13-0 within the MEAC with a 25-19, 21-25, 25-21, 18-25, 15-7 victory at second-place Coppin State and now leads Eagles by three video games. Rya McKinnon had 22 kills, hit .316, and had 10 digs and a block …
In the one Summit League match, second-place Omaha swept at Oral Roberts to drag to a sport behind idle South Dakota State. Amanda Hardt had 17 kills in simply these three units, hitting .433. McKenna Ruch had 12 kills with one error in 20 assaults to hit .550 and had two aces, 4 digs and eight blocks, 5 solo …
Lipscomb (16-10, 13-2) gained its sixth in a row to drag inside a half sport of idle FGCU (22-4, 13-1) within the ASUN with a four-set win at North Alabama as 4 gamers had 11 or extra kills, 15 by Courtney Jones. She hit .343 and had 9 digs. Karlie McNabb had 12 kills, hit .333 and had an help, three aces and 12 digs. Central Arkansas (14-11, 11-3) saved tempo with a sweep of Austin Peay as Mackenzie Vernon had 14 kills, hit .500, and had a dig and two blocks …
Binghamton (17-9, 7-2) opened a one-game America East lead on New Hampshire (15-9, 6-3) with a 19-25, 19-25, 25-18, 25-23, 15-2 victory. Tsvetelina Ilieva had 20 kills, 17 digs and three blocks, one solo. UNH’s Hannah Serbousek had 21 kills, two aces, 25 digs and three blocks. UMBC (8-14, 6-3) is tied with UNH after its five-set win over visiting Bryant, which received 23 kills from Arianna Ugolini, who had two aces and 10 digs. UMBC’s Mia Bilusic and Hannah Dobbs had 22 kills every. Bilusic had two assists, 26 digs and two blocks and Dobbs hit .327 and had an help, an ace, 15 digs and two blocks. Aysia Miller had 28 digs and two assists …
Fairfield maintained its two-game lead on Quinnipiac because the Stags beat Niagara in 4 and Quinnipiac swept Marist. Additionally within the MAAC, Sacred Coronary heart beat Canisius in 4 as Camryn Luginbuhl had 23 kills, hit .306, and had three assists, 13 dig and two blocks …
South Florida and Rice remained tied for the American Athletic lead, however whereas Rice swept UAB, USF needed to go 5 at East Carolina. USF received 19 kills from Naiya Sawtelle, who had 14 digs and two blocks, Ally Cavanaugh had 18 kills, two digs and 5 digs, and Maria Clara Andrade had 17 kills, an help, an ace, eight digs and three blocks, one solo. Additionally within the AAC, Morgan Stout had 15 kills and hit .500 in Wichita State’s sweep of Tulane to go along with two aces, seven digs and a block …
All 4 of the groups tied for the highest of the CAA at 13-3 gained. Towson gained in 4 at Stony Brook behind 27 kills from Victoria Barrett, who hit .380 and had two assists, an ace, 18 digs and 4 blocks, two solo. Hofstra swept visiting N.C. A&T as Constanza Perez Sain had 16 kills, hit .323 and had an help, three aces, three digs and a block. School of Charleston swept at UNC Wilmington as Caitlyn Callahan had 12 kills with no errors in 17 swings, an help, three digs and three blocks, one solo. And Delaware prolonged the distress of 0-27 Hampton by sweeping the Pirates as Kirah Johnson had 12 kills with no errors in 15 assaults to hit .800 and had an ace, 4 digs and three blocks.
