South Dakota State drew a file dwelling crowd and improved to 14-0 with a Summit League sweep of Kansas Metropolis, however scratch San Jose State (9-1) off the unbeaten listing after the Spartans have been swept at Colorado State within the Mountain West.
Additionally Thursday, second-ranked Nebraska swept Illinois, No. 3 Penn State beat visiting Maryland in 4 units, No. 8 Kansas received at Colorado and Tennessee Tech improved to 14-1 with an OVC sweep of Western Illinois,
Hampton dropped to 0-16 when the Pirates have been swept by Elon within the CAA.
Additionally on this version of Volleyball At this time, now we have the first-night outcomes from Athletes Limitless.
NCAA volleyball Friday
The massive one (as a result of I’ll be there) is unbeaten No. 1 Pittsburgh at Boston Faculty. Additionally within the ACC, No. 4 Louisville is dwelling for Clemson, No. 5 Stanford is dwelling for NC State, VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 16 SMU is at Syracuse, AVCA No. 16 Florida State is at Virginia, No. 19 Georgia Tech is at Notre Dame in a battle of 8-3 groups, Wake Forest is at Cal, Miami is at Virginia Tech and, two days after sweeping at Duke, North Carolina (12-1, 4-0) is dwelling for the Blue Devils.
There are six Large Ten matches, together with No. 11 Oregon (11-1), using an 11-match profitable streak, at No. 3 Penn State (12-1). Tenth-ranked Purdue is at Northwestern, No. 12 Minnesota is at UCLA, No. 21 USC is dwelling for Michigan, No. 25 Washington is at Iowa and Michigan State is at Indiana.
The three SEC matches present Georgia at No. 24 Auburn, Tennessee at Ole Miss and LSU at Mississippi State.
There’s an enormous one within the Large 12 when AVCA No. 20 BYU goes to VBM No. 14 Arizona State. Utah is at Arizona in a battle of 12-2 groups and West Virginia is at Houston.
Sixth-ranked Creighton is at Butler within the Large East and No. 23 Dayton goes to VCU for back-to-back matches within the Atlantic 10.
For you volleyball junkies, I’m doing the double, watching William & Mary at Northeastern, additionally in Boston, within the CAA within the afternoon earlier than heading to BC.
Winless watch: Hampton (0-16) is dwelling once more for Elon within the CAA and Navy (0-13) is dwelling for Lehigh within the Patriot League.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
Nebraska (13-1, 3-0 Large Ten) swept at Illinois (8-5, 0-3) 25-18, 25-22, 25-17. Nebraska, which hit .305, received 10 kills from Merritt Beason, who hit .421, and had an ace, a dig and 7 blocks . Additionally within the B1G, Penn State (13-1, 3-0) beat visiting Maryland (9-5, 0-3) 22-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-16 as Jess Mruzik had 17 kills, hit .313 and had an help, three aces and 14 digs. Camryn Hannah had 15 kills, an ace, two digs and three blocks, one solo, and Taylor Trammel had 10 kills with one error in 16 assaults, an ace, a dig and eight blocks. Setter Izzy Stark had two kills, 39 assists and 6 blocks, one solo. Maryland’s Samantha Schnitta had 19 kills, hit .318, and had two assists, three aces, three digs and three blocks, one solo. And Oregon (11-1, 3-0) blasted visiting Ohio State (7-6, 0-3) because the Geese hit .340. Mimi Colyer led with 16 kills, hitting .432, to go along with two assists, three digs and two blocks. Ohio State’s Emily Londot had 17 kills, an help, seven digs and two blocks …
Kansas (12-1, 3-0 Large 12) received in 4 at Colorado (7-8, 0-3) as Caroline Bien had 12 kills, hitting .348, and added an help, three aces, 13 digs and a block. London Davis additionally had 12 kills and hit .455 and Toyosi Onabanjo had 11 kills with one error in 18 attakcs to hit .556 and she or he had three digs and 7 blocks. Colorado’s Ana Burilovic had 19 kills, six digs and two block. Additionally within the Large 12, Texas Tech beat visiting Kansas State in 4 regardless of 21 kills by Liz Gregorski. She hit .318 and had an help, 4 digs and two blocks. Mia Wesley had 14 kills, a block and a match-high 19 digs for Texas Tech …
South Dakota State improved to 14-0, 3-0 in The Summit League, with a sweep of visiting Kanas Metropolis earlier than a home-record crowd of two,853. SDSU has matched this system’s longest win streak and longest unbeaten streak to start out a season within the rally-scoring period. The Jackrabbits went 14-0 in 2000 and SDSU had a 20-match profitable streak in 1975. Sylvie Zgonc led with 17 kills in opposition to Kansas Metropolis to go along with two assists, a solo block and 11 digs. Additionally in The Summit, St. Thomas swept at South Dakota for its first victory in opposition to the perennial league energy …
Lengthy Seaside swept at UC San Diego in the one Large West match as Natalie Glenn had 14 kills and hit .455 to go along with an help, an ace, eight digs and a block … Within the Mountain West, as a result of Colorado State DID play San Jose State, the Rams got here away with a 25-18, 25-20, 25-20 sweep of the beforehand unbeaten Spartans. Colorado State, which hit .347, received 12 kills from Malaya Jones and 11 from Naeemah, who hit .563. Blaire Fleming led SJSU with 14 kills however had 10 errors to go along with 9 digs and two blocks, one solo. Additionally within the MWC, Boise State beat Air Drive in 4, Fresno State received in 5 at Wyoming, Utah State pulled off a reverse sweep at San Diego State and UNLV beat visiting Nevada in 5. Traces of be aware embrace Boise State’s Paige Bartsch with 20 kills whereas hitting .306 with two assists, two blocks and 10 digs and teammate Bre Mitchell with 27 digs, six assists and two aces; and Wyoming’s Paige Lauterwasser had 22 kills …
Each Large Sky matches went 5. In Weber State’s win over visiting Montana, 9 gamers had 4 or extra kills, whereas in Montana State’s win at Idaho State, Jourdain Kamps led the Bobcats with 20 kills, hitting .372, to go along with a dig and 5 blocks. Idaho State’s Jamie Streit had a big-time match with 27 kills, hitting .396, 16 digs and three blocks …
Queens had 4 gamers with 10 or extra kills in its four-set ASUN win at West Georgia, 15 by Jordyn Johnson, who had 9 digs and a block … In the one MAC match, Akron received in 5 at NIU as Emanouela Christodoulou had 19 kills, hit .326, and had 4 blocks and two digs …
Tennessee Tech is 14-1, 3-0 within the OVC after sweeping Western Illinois. Madolyn Isringhausen led with 16 kills, an ace and 14 digs … Ali Ruffin had 17 kills and 14 digs in The Citadel’s four-set SoCon win at UNC Greensboro, which received 19 kills, 5 digs and 4 blocks, one solo, from Allie Candy …
Ilana De Assis had 21 kills and hit .333 in UTRGV’s Southland sweep of UIW. She added an help, a block and 13 digs. Additionally within the SLC, Cicily Hidalgo had 17 for Southeastern Louisiana in its four-set win at McNeese to go along with two aces, a solo block and 14 digs …
Georgia Southern improved to 11-1 by sweeping its Solar Belt opener at Marshall. The Eagles have received 10 matches and 22 units in a row. Reagan Barth led with 18 kills and hit .517 to go along with six of her staff’s eight aces, 12 digs and two blocks, one solo. Additionally within the SBC, Arkansas State improved to 13-2, 3-0 with a five-set win at Southern Miss. Kaitlin Whitlock had 17 kills, 17 digs and two blocks, one solo. Aysu Dalgullari had 16 kills to steer Southern Miss and had two assists, two aces, a block and 12 digs. Libero Sunni Sheppard had a whopping 36 digs and two assists …
Grace Chillingworth had 22 kills, an help, two aces, 12 digs and three blocks, one solo, for Pepperdine in its four-set WCC win at Gonzaga, which received 19 kills, an ace and 14 digs from Maggie Rickert. Additionally within the WCC, Washington State beat Portland in 5 as Sage Brustad had 20 kills, an help, two aces, 11 digs and three blocks, two solo. Emma Barbero had 25 kills, 10 assists and three aces … Within the WAC, Seattle U beat Tarleton in 4 as Arianna Bilby had 20 kills, hit .362 and had two assists, two aces, two blocks and 14 digs. Additionally within the WAC, Brianna Ford had 19 kills and hit .400 for UT Arlington in its four-set win over Southern Utah. Ford had 5 assists, an ace, 14 digs and three blocks, one solo. Bryley Steinhilber had 19 kills as Abilene Christian beat California Baptist in 5. She hit .333 and had three blocks and 15 digs.
Groups Hentz, De La Cruz-Mejía win AU openers
From Athletes Limitless, reporting from Mesa, Arizona, because the fourth season of the professional volleyball enterprise received underway:
Crew Hentz used robust performances from newcomers Khat Bell and Marlie Monserez to safe the primary victory of the 2024 Athletes Limitless Professional Volleyball season, a 71-67 come-from-behind consequence over Crew Valentin-Anderson at Arizona Athletic Grounds on Thursday night.
Bell, making her Athletes Limitless debut, garnered MVP 1 honors and 282 leaderboard factors after posting a team-high 12 kills with six digs and a service ace. Monserez, in the meantime, additionally contributed a powerful effort in her inaugural AU outing with a match-high 35 assists to assert MVP 3 distinction and 272 leaderboard factors.
Exterior hitter Dani Drews added 9 kills and eight digs within the victory, whereas staff captain Morgan Hentz registered a match-high 21 digs.
Exterior hitter Madi Kingdon Rishel, the match’s MVP 2 honoree, paced Crew Valentin-Anderson within the loss with a match-high 17 kills in 25 makes an attempt along with gathering eight digs. Captain Natalia Valentin-Anderson added a double-double of 32 assists and 12 digs.
Crew De La Cruz-Mejía utilized a 16-kill outing from reverse Brittany Abercrombie and a 15-kill efficiency from captain Bethania De La Cruz-Mejía to beat Crew Nuneviller, 76-69.
Center blocker Kayla Caffey earned her first MVP 1 honor after totaling three solo blocks with three block assists and 6 kills to complete the opening day of the season with 263 leaderboard factors.
Abercrombie made her presence identified in her league debut with 16 kills on a .333 hitting proportion. The highest decide within the Week One draft garnered MVP 2 laurels and a match-high 341 factors towards the standings.
De La Cruz-Mejía completed with 15 kills, 12 digs, and a pair of service aces to garner MVP 3 laurels and 305 leaderboard factors.
Libero Manami Kojima completed with a match-high 18 digs in her AU Professional Volleyball debut for Crew De La Cruz-Mejía.
Exterior hitter Brooke Nuneviller registered 16 kills and 15 digs, whereas outdoors hitter Lindsey Vander Weide and rookie libero Mary Lake every contributed 13 digs for Crew Nuneviller within the loss.
