Georgia Tech took it to visiting No. 13 Florida on Wednesday night time because the No. 15 Yellow Jackets performed in its massive enviornment and got here up with an enormous sweep.
High-ranked Pittsburgh gained the primary set 31-29 after which overpowered No. 23 USC, No. 2 Stanford gained in 4 at Pepperdine, No. 6 Texas swept visiting Houston and Western Michigan knocked off Michigan State.
Recaps and prime perfomances comply with on this all-NCAA Division I version of Volleyball Right now.
Thursday’s NCAA volleyball slate
Two ranked Huge Workforce are in motion when No. 19 Minnesota performs LIU and USC is again at towards Utah State. UCLA is making a Texas journey and enjoying three opponents for the primary time, going through the SWAC’s Prairie View and the Southland’s Texas A&M-Commerce on Thursday earlier than enjoying host TCU on Friday. Northwestern goes for its first win when it performs Notre Dame, Rutgers faces Binghamton, and 6-0 Michigan is residence for Sacramento State.
Three ranked SEC groups play Thursday, together with Florida taking up Alabama State. No. 22 Arkansas, off to a 7-0 begin, performs 6-1 Tulsa, LSU goes to No. 18 Baylor and Oklahoma performs Stephen F. Austin.
There are 5 ACC groups in motion, together with Georgia Tech again it — however in O’Keefe Gymnasium — when it performs South Alabama. Syracuse, a program that gained two matches in 2023, places its 6-0 mark on the road at Siena, a few hours to the east north of Albany. Virginia performs ETSU, Clemson performs App State and Notre Dame faces Northwestern.
Along with Baylor, the Huge 12’s Arizona State, 6-0 and ranked No. 14, performs Wichita State, No. 17 BYU performs San Diego and No. 25 TCU is residence for Texas A&M-Commerce and Prairie View. Cincinnati stays in Ohio and performs Xavier, Texas Tech performs UTRGV and Kansas State faces Lipscomb.
Additionally on the Thursday schedule, 6-0 UT Arlington performs Missouri State and within the one thing’s-gotta-give division, 0-5 Central Connecticut is at 0-7 Merrimack.
Wednesday’s recaps, prime performances
Georgia Tech (5-1) had by no means gained in McCamish Pavilion, the college’s basketball enviornment, earlier than coming away with a 25-19, 25-19, 25-21 victory over Florida (5-2). Bianca Bertolini led with 16 kills because the senior exterior from Argentina had one error in 32 assaults to go together with an help, an ac and 12 digs. Tamara Otene had 12 kills, hit .409, and had an ace and 9 digs. Larissa Mendes had 9 kills with one error in 20 swings, an help and two blocks. Tech hit .367. AC Fitzpatrick led Florida with 12 kills and 7 digs. Isabel Martin had 10 kills, an help, two blocks and a dig, and Jaela Auguste had 10 kills with no errors in 15 assaults and a block …
Pittsburgh (4-0) gained its first match as a No. 1 staff 31-29, 25-18, 25-16 at USC (3-2) wherein there have been 15 ties and 6 lead adjustments within the first set. Olivia Babcock had 17 kills, two aces, three blocks and 5 digs, and Torrey Stafford had 13 kills with on error in 32 assaults, an help, an ace, 4 blocks and three digs. Rachel Fairbanks ha two kills, 38 assists and eight digs. Her staff hit .289. USC’s Ally Batenhorst had 15 kills, three blocks and 7 digs …
Stanford is 6-0 after hitting .417 in a 25-18, 22-25, 25-17, 25-21 victory at Pepperdine (1-4) and goes again to Palo Alto for the primary time this season to play Texas on Sunday. In Malibu, Elia Rubin led with 20 kills, hitting .318, to with two blocks and 6 digs. Ipar Kurt had 18 kills, hit .536 and three digs. Jordyn Harvey had 15 kills with no errors in 27 assaults, 4 of the Cardinal’s 5 aces, two digs and three blocks. Elena Oglivie had 23 digs and 11 assists and Kami Miner had 4 kills in seven errorless makes an attempt, 48 assists, a block and 12 digs. Pepperdine’s Grace Chillingsworth had 17 kills, three aces, a block and three digs, and Birdie Hendrickson had 14 kills with one error in 33 assaults to hit .433 to go together with an help, two aces, a block and 9 digs …
Texas and Houston are each 3-2 after the Longhorns gained 25-19, 25-18, 25-20. Texas hit .370 at residence in Gregory Gymnasium. Madi Skinner had 13 kills, three blocks and 7 digs. Reagan Rutherford had 12 kills with one error in 19 swings, an help, two digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Jenna Wenaas had 11 kills, hit .360, and had an help, three of her staff’s seven aces, two blocks and 5 digs. Ella Swindle, who set the whole match, had three kills, 37 assists, two blocks and eight digs, and libero Emma Halter had 11 digs, three aces and 5 assists. Katie Corelli and Lily Barron had eight kills every for Houston …
Keona Salesman had 17 kills with one error in 34 assaults as Western Michigan gained 25-17, 25-21, 25-21 at Michigan State. Three different Broncos had eight kills every, together with Mary Clare Brusek, who had no errors in 17 swings and three blocks … Iowa State hit .407 and swept visiting Iowa 25-10, 25-19, 19-25, 25-18. Nayeli Gonzalez had 18 kills, hit .483, and had an ace, three digs and a block. Iowa’s Malu Garcia had 15 kills, hit .344, and had three digs and two blocks … Northern Colorado gained 25-23, 18-25, 25-18, 22-25, 15-8 at Colorado behind senior center Maddie Davis, who had 22 kills, hit .529, and had a dig and two blocks, one solo. Davis by no means had greater than 14 kills in a match in her first three seasons … Tsvetelina Ilieva had 20 kills, hit .349 and had an ace, seven digs and 5 blocks in Binghamton’s four-set win over Hofstra … Bryant improved to 6-2 with a sweep of Holy Cross. Fabi Castro had 10 kills with one error in 15 assaults, an help, an ace, 4 digs and two blocks … Lengthy Seashore State swept visiting Omaha as Zayna Meyers had six kills with no errors in 13 assaults …
Lastly, NC State beat visiting Liberty in 4 as Skye Stokes had 15 digs, an help and three aces. However one of many performs by Stokes, a graduate-student libero from Wellsville, Ohio, was particular.
In fact, in our sport the gamers give their all on a regular basis and ladies going lengthy methods after which diving for a ball is the norm. However our associates exterior of volleyball adore it when a libero crashes into one thing, and that was the case Wednesday when Stokes made this effort that was No. 2 on ESPN SportsCenter’s prime 10 performs:
WHAT. A. RALLY.
THE SAVES 😱
THE DODGE😱45 SECOND OF CHAOS@NCAAVolleyball pic.twitter.com/KcsuVWGTUD
— Wolfpack Volleyball (@PackVball) September 11, 2024
