Olympics
September 6, 2024
The USA ladies’s sitting group is into the gold-medal of the Paris Paralympics, the Professional Volleyball Federation will increase its schedule in 2025, Creighton and Tennessee gained the one NCAA matches Thursday between ranked groups, there are a zillion extra matches Friday because the second weekend of the school volleyball season is underway, and now we have a observe from our Jacksonville State correspondent (sure, now we have one) about that program in Alabama.
USA ladies play China once more for Paralympics gold
The USA and China gained their semifinal matches and can play for gold for the fifth Paralympics in a row.
From worldparavolley.org:
The US secured their place on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games ladies’s sitting volleyball last after a 3-1 (25-22, 22-25, 25-14, 25-15) victory over Brazil in Thursday’s semifinal at North Paris Area. This win marks their fifth consecutive look within the last, preserving them on observe for a 3rd straight gold medal.
Kathryn Bridge led all scorers with a standout 21 factors, together with 15 assaults, 4 blocks, and two aces. Heather Erickson additionally performed a key function, contributing 18 factors from 13 assaults, 4 blocks, and an ace.
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From worldparavolley.org in regards to the China victory:
China swept Canada 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-18) within the ladies’s sitting volleyball semifinals on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games in North Paris Area on Thursday, led by captain Xu Yixiao’s stellar efficiency. The victory units up a fifth consecutive Paralympic last showdown with the US, the place China will goal for his or her file fourth gold medal.
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Professional Volleyball Federation expands second-season slate
From the PVF information launch:
The league will add one to the variety of groups taking the courtroom in ’25, because the Indy Ignite will play for the primary time this season to present the league eight groups general. The second yr of competitors will see 112 common season matches performed (115 together with the postseason) — a rise of 33 p.c from the inaugural marketing campaign … (groups will play) 14 dwelling matches and 14 contests on the street. Groups will see the league opponents a complete of 4 instances every – twice at dwelling.
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NCAA volleyball Friday
It’s one other weekend with many groups taking part in twice in at some point. Listed here are some the important thing matches:
Within the ACC, Miami put its 3-0 file on the road when performs Indiana in Austin, the place the Hoosiers are coming off a tricky loss to the Texas on Thursday, and No. 4 Louisville performs South Dakota.
The Large 12 has TCU, which is getting AVCA Ballot votes, taking part in No. 6 Wisconsin, 0-3 for the primary time since 1990; No. 23 Baylor entertaining No. 18 Minnesota, which is coming off that upset of Texas; No. 13 Kansas vs. Marquette; and what ought to be a very good one, No. 8 Purdue vs. Utah in a battle of 4-0 groups.
The Large Ten’s No. 7 Penn State performs the SEC’s No. 9 Kentucky.
UT, Huskers, Purdue, Creighton, BYU, Vols, Hogswin
High-ranked Texas beat visiting Indiana 25-8, 25-21, 25-22 however was down 17-11 within the second set and led 13-12 within the third earlier than puling away. The Longhorns, who hit .385 and had seven aces with 12 serving errors, acquired 14 kills from Madi Skinner. She hit .357 and had two assists, two aces, a block and 5 digs. Libero Emma Halter had 4 aces, 9 digs and 7 assists. IU hit .074 …
No. 2 Nebraska, like Texas getting back from an upset defeat, beat visiting The Citadel 25-14, 25-16, 25-16. The Huskers, who hit .367 and had six aces and 11 errors, acquired 9 kills from Harper Murray, who had an help, an ace and 10 digs. Andi Jackson had seven kills with one error in 11 assaults and a solo block …
Purdue beat Cal in 4 as Raven Colvin had 16 kills, hit .423, and had two aces, 4 digs and 6 blocks, one solo … No. 11 Creighton beat visiting No. 20 USC 23-25, 25-17, 25-23, 28-26 behind 17 kills from Norah Sis and 16 from Ava Martin. Sis hit .333 and had two assists, an ace and 10 digs. Martin had an help, an ace, a block and a dig. Maddy Bilinovic had 20 digs, two assists and an ace. USC’s Adonia Faumuina had 15 kills, hit .367 and had 4 blocks …
No. 14 BYU hit .393 and beat visiting Lipscomb in 4. Claire Little and Elli Mortensen had 13 kills every and Kjersti Robust had 12 whereas hitting .625 to go along with three blocks. Lippy’s Courtney Jones had 12 kills, three aces, three digs and two blocks …
No. 17 Tennessee — which entered 0-2 — gained the primary set simply after which battled to a 25-15, 26-24, 27-25 victory over visiting No. 25 UCLA. Nina Cajic had 14 kills, hit .324 and had an help, an ace, a solo block and eight digs. Hayden Kubik had 12 kills, an help and 13 digs. UCLA’s Cheridyn Leverette had 13 kills, two assists, an ace, three digs and two blocks, one solo …
And Arkansas swept Rutgers to open the Woo Pig Invitational as 4 Razorbacks had seven or extra kills.
Across the nation
UT Arlington beat Santa Clara in 5 as Brianna Ford had 25 kills, hit .308, and had an ace, 15 digs and three blocks. She’s averaging 4.5 kills per set as UTA has improved to 4-0. Paige Reagor had 14 kills, hit .414, and had a dig and 4 blocks, one solo … Auburn improved to 5-0 with a sweep of Large West favourite Cal Poly. Bel Zimmerman had 11 kills with no errors in 19 assaults and Madison Scheer had 11 kills with one error in 25 assaults to go along with 4 blocks … Louisiana-Lafayette knocked off Houston on its dwelling courtroom as Mio Yamamoto had 26 digs and eight assists within the 25-23, 18-25, 20-25, 25-23, 15-6 victory. Lauryn Hill had 12 kills for the Ragin’ Cajuns and Cailin Demps and Jazmine Gaston had 11 every. Houston’s Katie Corelli had 20 kills and Kate Georgiades had 26 digs, 10 assists and an ace …
In Denver’s five-set win over Montana State, Genevieve Lewis had 25 kills and Cassie Davis 21. Lewis hit .321 and had an help, three digs and two blocks, and Davis had 13 digs and three blocks, one solo … Valparaiso acquired 12 kills every from Jordyn Grove, Elise Swistek and Sam Warren in a five-set win over Northern Illinois. Emma Hickey had 28 digs and eight assists …
Stephen F. Austin is 5-0 after sweeping Air Pressure. SFA hit .330 and Camryn Hill had 14 kills with one error in 25 swings to go along with eight digs and two blocks, one solo …
Gabi Placide had 15 kills, an help, two aces, six digs and three blocks for Northern Colorado in a five-set win over Ole Miss … McNeese swept Louisiana-Monroe and McKenzie Moore had 17 kills, hit .325 and had two assists, 11 digs and 7 blocks … SMU, coming off its upset of Nebraska, hit .515 and swept visiting Milwaukee. The Mustangs had 43 kills with 9 errors in 66 assaults. Naya Shime had 13 kills, hit .611, and had three blocks … Arizona hit .443 in a sweep at Alabama State. Jaelyn Hodge had 12 kills and hit .455 and Kiari Robey had 10 kills with one error in 15 swings to hit .600 … San Francisco’s Amelia Dombrowska had 20 kills, seven digs and two blocks in her group’s five-set win over NM State … Utah Tech hit .427 in a sweep of Cal State Fullerton. Kennedi Knudsen had 14 kills, hit .462, and had seven digs … Texas A&M-Corpus Christia beat North Florida in 5 as Kyndal Payne had 19 kills and Leah Stolfus had 18 …
Nevada beat Seattle U in a reverse sweep and Gabby McLaughlin had 19 kills, an help, an ace and 11 digs … Taylor Underwood and Madison Corf had 16 kills every for San Diego State in a four-set win over DePaul … Portland beat Idaho State in 5 and Maui Robins and Elin Larsson had 17 kills every and Taina Kaauwai had 16 with one error in 29 swings … And each groups got here in 0-2 earlier than Lengthy Seashore State beat Northwestern in 4. Natalie Glenn and Abby Karich had 11 kills every and Ella Lomigora 9 and 5 blocks, one solo.
Jacksonville State bouncing again
Jacksonville State of Convention USA opened the season 3-0 with victories over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, New Orleans and West Georgia. Perhaps not a top-25 schedule, however contemplating this system went 5-22 final season and the teaching employees left within the spring, an excellent begin.
Derek Schroeder got here on board as head coach of each the indoors and seaside packages in Might after six seasons in the identical function at Mercer.
In these first three matches, Kayla Williams has 45 kills, averaging 4.5 per set, and setter Ellie Garrett is averaging 13 assists per set.
The Gamecocks play at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi this weekend the place they’ll face Texas Southern, the house group and North Florida.
