NCAA Event bids shall be clinched Tuesday within the Missouri Valley Convention and The Summit League.
The Ohio Valley Convention additionally has its match closing, however fourth-headed Morehead State, which performs second-seeded Lindenwood, is already assured of shifting on.
The Professional Volleyball Federation carried out its participant draft Monday, the AVCA has a brand new high 25, the teaching carousel spun within the American Athletic Convention and we’ve got a recap and photographs from the Laguna Seaside Open.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball At present:
Valley, OVC, Summit finals set
Tuesday’s 5 p.m. Jap Missouri Valley Convention Championship title match pits top-seeded Northern Iowa, driving a 19-match successful streak, towards third-seeded UIC. UNI swept UIC twice within the common season.
UNI (24-7) moved on with a 25-13, 25-19, 25-16 sweep of fourth-seeded Illinois State (17-16). The Panthers, who hit .375, received 13 kills from Kira Fallert, who had no errors in 20 assaults and hit .650 to go along with six digs, a block and 7 digs.
UIC (23-9) swept second-seeded Drake (20-10) after dropping to the Bulldogs twice within the common season, each occasions in 4 units. UIC’s Antonie Kelnarova had 15 kills, hit .444, and had 5 digs and two blocks, one solo …
The 8 p.m. Jap Summit League closing in Kansas Metropolis is all concerning the Mount Rushmore State, that includes top-seeded South Dakota State (27-1) and third-seeded South Dakota (20-9).
South Dakota State received previous fifth-seeded Denver (13-15) in 5 to get again into the league title match for the primary time since 2007. The Jackrabbits gained 23-25, 22-25, 25-22, 25-18, 15-10 as Sylvie Zgonc had 24 kills, an help, 14 digs and 4 blocks, one solo, and Sydni Schetnan had 16 kills, hitting.400, and 5 digs and 9 blocks, one solo. Denver had 4 gamers with 11 or extra kills, 15 by Molly Mirabelli, who had a dig and 11 blocks, three solo.
Of their regular-season conferences, SDSU beat South Dakota in 5 after which swept the Coyotes…
The 7 p.m. Jap OVC closing between Lindenwood (22-10) and Morehead State (18-13) is for bragging rights. That’s as a result of Lindenwood, transitioning to Division I, isn’t eligible to play within the NCAA Event, so the league’s automated bid robotically goes to Morehead State.
Morehead State knocked out top-seeded Southeast Missouri State (19-13) 23-25, 25-22, 25-20, 27-25 after dropping to SEMO in back-to-back matches in October. Irene Wogenstahl led Morehead with 21 kills, hitting .462, and added an help, two blocks and a dig, and Maycie Welborn had 20 kills with one error in 46 swings to hit .413 and had 5 digs and three blocks, one solo. SEMO’s Lucy Arndt had 19 kills, two assists, 4 aces, a block and 17 digs.
Lindenwood, which swept third-seeded Tennessee Tech (24-8) twice within the common season, needed to go 5 this time. Nyah Wilson had 15 kills within the 31-29, 16-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-10 victory to go along with an help, an ace and 9 digs, and Ashley Geluck had 14 kills, hit .423, and had 5 blocks and 4 digs. Jessie Seidel had 28 digs, two assists and two aces. Tennessee Tech’s Madolyn Isringhausen, the OVC participant of the 12 months, capped her profession with 25 kills, an help, an ace, a block and 19 digs.
Professional Volleyball Federation draft
The Professional Volleyball Federation, which begins its second season in January, carried out its draft Monday. Merritt Beason, the appropriate aspect for Nebraska, was taken No. 1 after the Atlanta Vibe traded as much as get new franchise Indy’s first choose.
The Indy Ignite then took Louisville’s Anna DeBeer. The remainder of the primary spherical — there have been 5 — noticed Orlando take Creighton’s Norah Sis, Vegas select Penn State’s Camryn Hannah, San Diego take Wisconsin’s Devyn Robinson, Atlanta make a second choose with Florida State’s Khori Louis, Grand Rapids take Purdue’s Raven Colvin and defending-champion Omaha select Toyosi Onabanjo of Kansas.
Click on right here to view the whole draft checklist.
Pitt holds high spot in AVCA high 25
Within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, our voters moved Nebraska right into a first-place tie with Pittsburgh, however within the AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot, the Panthers stayed No. 1 with 47 of the 61 first-place votes. Nebraska received 14.
Louisville-Penn State-Creighton stayed 3-4-5.
Aside from Dayton falling from 18th to No. 23, there was no main motion. North Carolina returned at No. 25 and BYU dropped out.
Click on right here to see the AVCA high 25.
North Texas wants a volleyball coach
Kristee Porter is out at North Texas after three seasons wherein her groups went 43-49. This season, the Eagles completed 10-18, 7-9 within the American Athletic and misplaced to Rice within the first spherical of the league match.
North Texas has been to the NCAA Event as soon as, in 1995.
ICYMI, 900 Sq. Ft:
LBSU’s Gementera, Hagenah win Laguna Seaside Open
Due to VBM’s Larry Hamel for the write-up and Jim Wolf and Mark Rigney for the photographs:
Lengthy Seaside State juniors Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah notched noteworthy victories towards execs over the weekend in successful the Laguna Seaside Open, which billed itself as “the world’s longest working seaside volleyball match” and was sanctioned as an AVPNext occasion.
First-team AVCA All-People as sophomores, Malia and Taylor needed to win two matches within the qualifier simply to get into the 32-team principal girls’s draw. Of their second-round match, they fell to Julia Scoles (half of the Manhattan Seaside Open runner-up staff this summer time) and Teegan Van Gunst. However the Lengthy Seaside State women battled out of the losers bracket, defeating veterans Brooke Sweat (a 2016 USA Olympian) and Kendra VanZwieten, successful one other match, then defeating Kelly Cheng (two-time USA Olympian and half of the reigning world champions) and her younger associate nonetheless in highschool, Kyra Zaengle, a high-profile USC recruit.
Subsequent was a rematch within the semifinals with Scoles and Van Gunst, and Gementera-Hagenah flipped the script 26-24, 21-13. Their opponents within the title match, Carly Kan and Devanne Sours, had gained the AVP Problem-level occasion on the Waupaca Boatride this summer time. School children Malia, a 5-foot-6 lightning-bug defender, and Taylor, an lively 5-foot-11 web presence, took them down in a nail-biter 22-20, 17-21, 15-13.
The Laguna Seaside Open might need been a combined bag of groups, nevertheless it nonetheless validated that the duo from The Seaside possesses a major upside. Each gamers hail from the San Diego metro space.
Up-and-comers Gage Basey, 21, and Thomas Hurst, 20, claimed the title on the boys’s aspect.
