Professional Girls
November 20, 2024
The one-and-done season is underway:
Lehigh pulled off the primary upset of the NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball postseason.
The visiting sixth-seeded Hawks, within the convention match for the primary time since 2019, knocked out third-seeded American in 5 units within the opening spherical of the Patriot League Championship. Within the different match, fourth-seeded Military West Level swept No. 5 Loyola Maryland.
South Dakota State clinched The Summit League and Southeast Missouri State got here one step nearer within the Ohio Valley Convention.
There are simply 19 matches on the Wednesday schedule, however that features seven ranked groups, highlighted by AVCA No. 16 Minnesota at Wisconsin, No. 6 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot.
We’ve the information on the DIII ladies’s tourney.
The teaching carousel did some spinning in Louisiana and we’ve got our weekly report on USA ladies enjoying professionally internationally with many names NCAA followers know effectively, together with Dana Rettke, Avery Skinner and Stephanie Samedy, who had 49 kills in her two matches in Japan.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball Right now, which is ready to make a uncommon reference to each Fingall sisters in the identical report:
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
There are two Massive Ten matches as No. 2 Nebraska, which has gained 23 in a row, goes to Iowa, which might be seen on B1G+, and Wisconsin is residence for Minnesota. That one is on the Massive Ten Community at 9 p.m. Japanese. Nebraska leads the B1G at 16-0, a recreation forward of idle Penn State and two video games forward of Wisconsin.
AVCA No. 17 Baylor is residence Texas Tech within the Massive 12, which additionally exhibits No. 22 TCU entertaining Houston and Kansas State at UCF.
Kentucky, which holds a one-game SEC lead over Florida and idle Texas, is residence for Mississippi State at 7 p.m. Japanese on ESPN+, whereas Florida goes to Auburn. That one begins at 7 p.m. Japanese and is on the SEC Community.
The lone ACC match has Boston Faculty at Syracuse.
Southeast Missouri State, which beat SIUE on Tuesday, can clinch the Ohio Valley Convention regular-season title outright if it beats the visiting Cougars once more. The 6 p.m. Japanese first serve is on ESPN+. Second-place Lindenwood, a recreation again, must win at Little Rock once more Wednesday and root for SIUE to drive a tie. Additionally i the OVC, Morehead State is at Southern Indiana, Tennessee Tech is at UT Martin and Tennessee State is at Japanese Illinois.
There’s a regular-season finale showdown within the Missouri Valley Convention.
Northern Iowa, which has gained 17 in a row and holds a one-game lead over Drake, performs at Drake at 7 p.m. on ESPN+. UNI swept their earlier assembly. Additionally within the Valley, Bradley is at Illinois State, Indiana State is at Evansville and Southern Illinois is at Missouri State.
Seton Corridor is at Georgetown within the Massive East and within the West Coast Convention, Santa Clara is at San Francisco.
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
Lehigh (16-12) made it back-to-back five-set wins over American (20-9) with a 25-20, 17-25, 25-21, 23-25, 15-10 victory to advance to the Patriot League semifinals. The Hawks play at top-seeded Colgate on Friday. Emily Stewart, who eight blocks, and Megan Schulte had 12 kills every for Lehigh. Ufuoma Omene had 11 kills and 6 blocks. Madison McCartney had six kills with no errors in 13 assaults and 5 blocks to go together with sevdn digs. And Alysia Finall, whose sister Morgahn performed at Tennessee and is in our worldwide report under, had 9 kills — however 9 errors — an help, two blocks and 12 digs. AU’s Elise Sterling had 13 kills with no errors in 21 assaults to hit .619 and had an help, two blocks and a digs. Lilou Stegemen, who had seven blocks, two solo, and Adelina Berisha had 12 kills every … Within the different PL match, Military West Level (15-11) swept visiting Loyola Maryland (10-16) as seven gamers had 5 or extra kill within the 25-20, 25-12, 25-18 victory. Juliette Myrick had eight kills with one error in 10 assaults, 30 assists, three of her workforce’s 12 aces, 9 digs and two blocks. The Black Knights play second-seeded Bucknell at Colgate on Friday …
In The Summit League, South Dakota State clinched the regular-season title with a sweep at South Dakota, which set a program attendance report with 2,810 within the Sanford Coyote Sports activities Heart. SDSU, which gained the common season for the primary time since 2007, was led by Sylive Zgonc, who had 14 kills, hitting .458, to go together with an help, an ace and 14 digs. It additionally was the primary time the Jackrabbits gained at South Dakota since 2002. Omaha completed a recreation again after successful in 4 at Kansas Metropolis. McKenna Ruch had 18 kills with one error in 28 swings to hit .607 and had a dig and two blocks. North Dakota State beat visiting North Dakota in 4 and Denver swept at Oral Roberts …
Fresno State (16-12, 12-5) vaulted into second place within the Mountain West, a recreation again within the loss column of idle Colorado State (16-10, 12-4) with a five-set victory at San Jose State. Idle Utah State is alone in third at 11-5, whereas San Jose State (14-6, 12-6) fell to fourth. Addison Haluska led Fresno with 20 kills, hitting .395, and had six of her workforce’s 13 aces, seven digs and three blocks. Blaire Fleming led SJSU with 21 kills, hitting .349, with 9 digs and three blocks, two solo. There are extra league matches Thursday and Saturday, however San Jose State is completed till the convention match as a result of Boise State is forfeiting their match on Thursday …
Within the Ohio Valley, Southeast Missouri beat visiting SIUE 25-16, 15-25, 25-17, 27-25 as Lucy Arndt had 18 kills, 16 digs and two blocks, one solo. Nina Schuberth had 26 digs, 5 assists and an ace. SIUE’s Nicole Medlin had 14 kills, hit .480, and had two digs and three blocks, one solo. Lindenwood remained a recreation again by successful in 5 at Little Rock. Rebecca Janke had 16 kills, hit .342, and had two digs and 4 blocks. Little Rock’s Jeila Fullerton had 19 kills, two assists, 17 digs and two blocks. Andrea Roman had 30 digs and eight assists. Additionally within the OVC, Tennessee State swept at Japanese Illinois, Morehead State swept at Southern Indiana and Tennessee Tech did the identical at UT Martin …
There have been two Missouri Valley matches as Belmont swept Murray State and UIC gained in 5 at Valparaiso. Belmont’s Lucy Kay had 17 kills, hitting .667. UIC’s Gabi Peter had 17 kills, hit .306, and had 4 digs and 6 blocks, one solo.
Juniata leads NCAA Division III tourney subject
All eyes on Juniata, which has gained 91 matches in a row.
The 64-team subject was introduced Tuesday and the two-time defending champions play Penn State Altoona within the first spherical. Juniata, 29-0, completed 14-0 within the Landmark Convention after which swept its means by way of the match semifinals and last. For that mattter, Juniata has swept its final 22 matches and has misplaced simply three matches all season.
When the Eagles swept Scranton final Saturday 25-14, 25-15, 25-20, it marked this system’s forty third total consecutive convention championship and seventeenth straight Landmark Convention championship.
Click on right here for extra on the DIII match, together with a hyperlink to observe the choice present.
ULM wants a coach … once more
Louisiana-Monroe coach Daniel Cabrera is “stepping down” after one season. The Warhawks completed 4-24, 01-16 within the Southland Convention. The subsequent ULM coach will likely be its sixth in 13 years.
This system, which has by no means been to the NCAA Match, final had a successful season in 1989.
USA ladies enjoying internationally
Within the group stage of the CEV Champions League, Dana Rettke was named MVP as Eczacibasi swept Schwerin. Former Wisconsin star Rettke had six kills, hit .857, and had three blocks and an ace. Alexa Grey, the Canadian who performed at BYU, had 11 kills and hit 455). Jaelyn Keene had three kills and a block for Schwerin.
Additionally within the CEV Champions League, Washington product Kara Bajema had 9 kills, a block and an ace as Scandicci swept Stuttgart. Alabama’s Krystal Rivers led Stuttgart with 14 kills, two blocks and an ace. Within the German League, Rivers Germany had 23 kills in a five-set over Aachen and teammate Madelyn Robinson, who performed at BYU, had eight kills and an ace. Serena Bruin, who performed at Oregon State, had seven kills, hit .538, and had three blocks and an ace for Aachen.
Haylie Bennett, who additionally performed at Oregon State, had 17 kills, 5 blocks and three aces for Nantes in a five-set Champions League loss to Lodz. Laura Jansen of the Netherlands who performed at Washington State, had 15 kills and a block. Mariana Brambilla, the Brazilian who performed at Georgia Tech had 10 kills and a block.
Former LSU standout Taylor Bannister had 12 kills, two blocks and an ace for Vasas which misplaced to Turkish champion Fenerbahce in 4 units.
Within the CEV Cup spherical of 32, former Tennessee star Morgahn Fingall had 23 kills and a block for Volero Le Cannet in a win over Beograd.
Bella Bergmark, who gained an NCAA title with Texas final yr, had 4 kills and 4 blocks for Nancy in a win over Dresdner. Marta Levinska, the Latvian who performed at Arizona State, had 9 kills for Dresdner to go together with two aces and a block.
Within the CEV Problem Cup spherical of 32, Riley Wagoner of Hawai’i had seven aces and 6 kills as Targoviste swept Olymp Praha.
Emma Ellis, who performed at Purdue, and CAV Esquimo scored an enormous upset over Greek titans Panathinaikos in 4 units after which once more in a golden set (15-6) to advance to the subsequent spherical as Ellis had 19 kills.
Setter Josie Vondran, who performed at LSU, led Dudingen to a comeback win over Swiss rival Schaffhausen with seven kills, two blocks and two aces. Jordan Lockwood-Russell, who performed at Denver had 25 kills for Schaffhausen.
Washington State’s Kyra Holt led Benfica previous AEK Athens with 17 kills, hitting .500, and had a block and an ace.
In Italy, Avery Skinner had 17 kills and a block for Chieri in a four-set win over Bergamo. Khalia Lanier had 4 kills, a block and an ace as Conegliano swept Pinerolo. And Simone Lee had 14 kills however Vallefoglia fell to Scandicci in 4.
In Türkiye, Annie Mitchem had 11 kills, a block and one ace in Aras Kargo’s 5 set defeat to Aydin. Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani had eight kills and two aces however SigortaShop was swept by Eczacibasi in three units.
In France, Lauren Matthews was high scorer as RC Cannes beat Beziers in 4 units. Matthews had 17 kills, two blocks and two aces. Marissa Stockman led Beziers with 14 kills (.737), a block and one ace. Lexi Hadrych was named MVP as TFOC beat Quimper in 4 units. Hadrych had 17 kills and two blocks. Karson Bacon added seven kills (.467), a block, and an ace.
In Japan, Astemo Rivale earned two wins over league-leading Denso. Rivale gained the primary match in 4 units as each Mac Could and Brionne Butler have been high scorers. Could had 12 kills, three aces and two blocks and Butler had 12 kills, three blocks and two aces. Rivale earned a dramatic five-set win within the second match and Could was named MVP as after having 18 kills and two blocks. Butler had 12 kills and 4 blocks.
Stephanie Samedy powered Hisamitsu Springs to 2 sweeps of Okayama. She had 27 kills (.491) and three blocks within the first match after which 22 kills (.526) within the second.
In Brazil, Jenna Grey had two blocks and two aces as she set Minas to a four-set win over Barueri. Payton Caffrey was Praia Clube’s high scorer but once more, this time with 20 kills (.472) and two blocks in a four-set win towards Pinheiros. Nia Reed made her season debut instead and had 5 kills. Claudia Dillion had 5 kills for Pinheiros. And Callie Schwarzenbach had 5 kills and two blocks as Osasco swept Bauru.
