There have been greater than 200 NCAA girls’s matches Friday because the season started in earnest with one other full slate on faucet Saturday.
Matches of word, in no explicit order, embrace:
Kansas vs. Duke
Pittsburgh vs. Lengthy Seashore State
San Diego vs. SMU
Arizona State vs. Lipscomb
TCU vs. Nebraska
Excessive Level vs. BYU
Ohio State vs. Dayton
USC vs. Pepperdine
Western Kentucky vs. Kentucky
Missouri vs. Creighton
Florida vs. Northern Colorado
The AVP Chicago Open heads into the second day of the three-day match on the shores of Lake Michigan. We’ve acquired images from Mark Rigney, Will Chu, Rick Atwood and Stephen Burns.
Friday’s NCAA volleyball
It’s inconceivable to maintain up with such an enormous slate, however here’s a have a look at some key outcomes and prime performances.
There weren’t any main upsets, however definitely some outcomes that acquired our consideration, beginning with the ACC.
Fourth-seeded Pittsburgh got here out robust and received 25-12, 27-25, 25-23 at No. 10 Oregon of the Huge Ten … UCLA of the Huge Ten — add that may sound bizarre till most likely mid-season or so — which had votes within the preseason AVCA ballot, opened with a five-set victory at No. 14 Georgia Tech. Kiki Horne, a 6-2 freshman from Raleigh, North Carolina, had 12 kills within the 25-20, 11-25, 10-25, 25-19, 16-14 victory … Hawai’i of the Huge West, which additionally acquired some AVCA votes, held off visiting SMU, one other crew that loads of AVCA. UH, which couldn’t have began off worse, was led by junior outdoors Caylen Alexander had 28 kills within the 7-25, 25-23, 24-26, 25-21, 15-13 victory. She had an ace, a block and 11 digs … Stanford grinded to a 25-20, 27-25, 25-17 victory on the Horizon League’s Milwaukee … And Wake Forest was knocked off at residence, swept by Hofstra of the CAA, the Satisfaction’s first win over an ACC faculty since 2016 … Syracuse, which began 2023 0-6 swept NJIT after which beat Lafayette in 4 …
The Huge Ten went 12-5 on Friday, which included No. 8 Purdue successful a troublesome four-setter over visiting Kansas State, a crew that’s not but ranked however will likely be. Chloe Chicoine had 17 kills and Eva Hudson 16 for the Boilermakers, whereas Aliyah Carter had 21 kills for Okay-State to go together with 13 digs and a block .. No. 7 Penn State received in 4 at No. 15 Tennessee as Camryn Hannah and Jess Mruzik had 19 kills every. Hannah hit .452 and had 5 digs and two solo blocks, whereas Mruzik hit .390 and had six digs and a block … Illinois swept Cincinnati and Raina Terry had 13 kills, hit .310, and had two assists, seven digs and two blocks … Indiana hit .420 in a sweep at Kennesaw State … No. 2 Nebraska hit .427 in a sweep of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi which included Lindsay Krause getting 13 kills with two errors in 23 assaults … Talking of Nebraska, switch Ally Batenhorst had 11 kills for No. 21 USC in a sweep of Pepperdine to go together with an ace, two blocks and 4 digs …
Within the Huge 12, Houston beat Omaha in 5 and libero Kate Georgiades had 25 digs … Kendal Murphy began Baylor’s season in an enormous method. She had 11 kills with no errors in 19 swings to go together with six digs and a block in a sweep of Abilene Christian. The sophomore outdoors had 42 whole kills in 2023. Baylor then swept Tulsa as Murphy had 13 kills with one error in 31 assaults, 10 digs and 4 blocks … BYU hit .390 in a sweep of Southeastern Louisiana then hit a whopping .488 in a sweep of Fairfield. Claire Little had 16 kills with no errors in 21 assaults …
Within the SEC, LSU needed to pull off a reverse sweep at residence in opposition to New Hampshire to open its season. Sophomore outdoors Jurnee Robinson had 25 kills, an help, 4 aces, 13 digs, and three blocks, one solo. Then the Tigers beat Maryland in 4 as Robinson added 28 extra kills, hit .435, and had two assists, two aces, three blocks and 12 digs … Arkansas acquired previous Saint Mary’s in 5. Romani Thurman, a sophomore switch from North Carolina who’s from Little Rock, had 19 kills, hit .341 and had 14 digs and three blocks … Georgia beat UC Santa Barbara in 5 because the No. 25 Bulldogs acquired 23 kills from Texas A&M switch Bianna Muoneke, who hit .438 … Kennedy Martin picked up the place she left off final season and had 25 kills in Florida’s four-set win over Colorado State. She hit .568 and had 5 digs and 7 blocks, two solo … Alabama went 2-0 and in a win over The Citadel Sophie Agee had 20 kills, an help, two aces, eight digs and three blocks, one solo. Earlier in a four-set win over Grambling she had 22 kills, two assists, an ace, three digs and three blocks …
Somewhat of this and that: Lipscomb swept California Baptist in a match we previewed final week due to the longtime friendship between Lippy coach Brandon Rosenthal and CBU’s Branden Higa. Lipscomb’s Courtney Jones had 20 kills, hit .340, and had an ace, a block and two digs … Houston Christian misplaced in 5 to Texas State, however HCU’s Audrey Pearce had 17 kills with one error in 27 assaults to go together with two digs and three blocks, one solo. HCU later misplaced to Rice, which had 4 gamers with 11 or extra kills, 15 by Lademi Ogunlana, who hit .520 … Stony Brook defeated Delaware State in 5 as Leoni Kunz and Kali Moore had 20 kills apiece … The identical factor occurred in Quinnipiac’s five-set victory over Rhode Island as each Elena Giacomini and Ginevra Giovagnoni had 20 kills every … UT Arlington fifth-year senior outdoors Brianna Ford had 18 kills and hit .429 in a sweep of Murray State and added an help, two aces, seven digs and a block … Creighton hit .385 in a sweep of NC State …
Comply with @VBMagazine on Twitter (X) to maintain up with ends in virtually actual time as our Ed Robust follows each ongoing match and provides unimaginable perception.
AVP Chicago
Issues just about went to type Friday because the AVP Chicago Open acquired underway.
4 girls’s pairs received each their matches and sq. off Saturday as top-seeded Taryn Kloth and Kristin Nuss play fifth-seeded Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft and second-seeded Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes face third-seeded Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes.
Cannon and Kraft beat fourth-seeded Julia Scolies and Betsi Flint within the second spherical 23-25, 21-18, 15-11. Flint-Scoles await the winner of the early match between Madelyne Anderson and Marine Kinna vs. Kim Hildreth and Teegan Van Gunst.
On the boys’s aspect, top-seeded Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb play fourth-seeded Chase Budinger and Miles Evans and second-seeded Andy Benesh and Miles Partain play sixth-seeded Phil Dalhausser and Avery Drost.
Dalhausser and Drost beat Wyatt Harrison and Brian Miller within the second spherical after the No. 14 seed surprised third-seeded Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander 17-21, 22-20, 18-16. Crabb-Sander stayed alive with a 21-18, 19-21, 15-12 win over Alison Cerutti and Evan Cory and play Eleventh-seeded Hagen Smith and Logan Webber on Saturday.
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