Topic 50 of 71: College Volleyball
Sun, Oct 10, 1999 (23:57) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
I can take a hint, Marcia.
31 responses total.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 1 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (00:09) * 0 lines
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 2 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Oct 19, 1999 (22:08) * 144 lines
Division I | Division II | Division III | October 18, 1999
The USA TODAY/American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25
women's Division I volleyball teams as ranked by 60 coaches with records
through October 9 (first place votes in parenthesis):
Rank
School
Total
Points
1999
Record
Last
Week
1
Penn State (43)
1480
18-1
1
2
Hawai'i (17)
1455
16-0
2
3
Pacific
1374
17-1
3
4
Florida
1293
17-2
4
5
Long Beach State
1266
15-2
5
6
UCLA
1212
17-1
6
7
Stanford
1126
14-2
7
8
BYU
1069
13-2
8
9
UC Santa Barbara
993
15-3
9
10
Texas
915
13-3
10
11
Pepperdine
914
14-2
11
12
Kansas State
854
14-2
13
13
Nebraska
839
14-4
12
14
Clemson
660
18-1
15
15
Colorado State
588
17-1
14
16
Texas A&M
569
14-4
16
17
USC
524
11-5
17
18
Arizona
475
12-5
18
19
Northern Iowa
425
19-0
19
20
Illinois
313
11-3
23
21
Colorado
292
11-6
20
22
Arkansas
255
16-4
21
23
Minnesota
203
16-4
22
24
Univ of San Diego
149
14-3
25
25
North Carolina
109
17-3
NR
Others receiving 30 or more points: San Jose State (54).
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 3 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Oct 19, 1999 (22:10) * 3 lines
I scribbled the first post because I discovered it was a poll from three years ago and irrelevant. Now that Penn State is Number 1 on at least this poll, I just had to post it!
Thanks, Terry, for this topic. It should be popular - especially when the men get playing. Men are great to watch play Volleyball....*sigh*
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 4 of 31: John Burnett (mrchips) * Wed, Oct 20, 1999 (01:18) * 2 lines
Volleyball is not that big of a spectator sport on the mainland. Not like here. Most people only know either the Olympians or the two-man beach kine v.b.
Almost nobody saw our own beloved but beleaguered coach Sharon Peterson play either as an Olympian (1964 Tokyo, 1968 Mexico City) or as a pro in the mid 70s.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 5 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Oct 20, 1999 (13:20) * 1 lines
That well may be, but the lady longhorns are 10th and the lady aggies are 16th on that top 25 list. Someone other than Hawaii (and California) must be watching it! (I did not see her play, did you???)
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 6 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (20:13) * 1 lines
One team who will never see that Top 25 is the University of Hawaii at Hilo Vulcan Wahine. They are having their worst year ever that I can remember in longer than I care to say, and we are playing our strongest in-state team this evening. Two nights ago we lost to the second strongest in just an hour and three games 1-15, 2-15, 10-15. This evening should be under an hour and I think our total score will be tallied on one hand for all of the games we play. Sad!
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 7 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (20:15) * 1 lines
John, what has happened to our recruiting?! Coach Peterson's pipeline has sprung leaks or has rusted shut? Something is definitely wrong...!
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 8 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Nov 29, 1999 (16:51) * 0 lines
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 9 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Dec 8, 1999 (16:36) * 36 lines
Women's Volleyball Rankings
Volleyball Polls (All Divisions)
USA TODAY/AVCA women's top 25
Through Nov. 29
Rank Team (1st-place) Pts. Record Last
1 Penn State (52) 1488 30-1 1
2 Stanford (8) 1444 26-2 2
3 Hawaii 1367 27-1 3
4 Florida 1301 30-2 4
5 Pacific 1292 28-2 5
6 Long Beach State 1194 27-3 7
7 UC Santa Barbara 1116 26-5 8
8 UCLA 1056 25-3 6
9 Pepperdine 1048 24-3 10
10 Nebraska 934 25-5 11
11 Colorado State 922 28-2 12
12 Brigham Young 857 26-4 9
13 Texas A&M 780 25-5 13
14 Southern California 684 20-8 14
15 Texas 614 21-7 15
16 Clemson 604 31-2 16
17 Northern Iowa 555 28-0 17
18 Arizona 437 19-10 19
19 Kansas State 387 20-8 18
20 Baylor 361 25-8 22
21 Colorado 261 18-11 21
22 Minnesota 239 25-8 20
23 North Carolina 221 27-5 23
24 Arkansas 125 29-6 24
25 San Diego 110 22-5 25
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 10 of 31: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (08:48) * 3 lines
Wow, Hawaii is a volleyball powerhouse. Do they play Texas in the
upcoming schedule?
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 11 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (14:56) * 60 lines
They played Texas A&M last evening and lost, but i think that was men's basketball.
In women's collegiate volleyball Penn State has clinched the Big 10 (11) title.
BIG 12 NCAA REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Dec. 9-10 at Honolulu, Hawaii
Colorado State vs. Long Beach State 9 p.m.
Texas A&M vs. Hawaii 11 p.m.
Regional Final 9 p.m.
Dec. 9-10 at Palo Alto, Calif.
Nebraska vs. Santa Barbara 7 p.m.
Stanford vs. Arizona 9:30 p.m.
Regional Final 9 p.m.
Times listed as Central
NCAA semifinals/championship
Dec. 16 & 18, at Honolulu, Hawaii
Stan Sheriff Center
BIG 12 NCAA TOURNAMENT RESULTS
First & Second Rounds
Dec. 3-4 at University Park, Pa.
Baylor def. Temple 3-1 (11-15, 16-14, 15-7, 15-12)
Penn State def. Baylor 3-0 (15-2, 15-6, 15-10)
Dec. 2-3 at Austin, Texas
Texas def. Houston 3-0 (15-6, 15-7, 15-10)
Arizona def. Texas 3-0 (15-8, 15-6, 15-7)
Dec. 2-3 at Lincoln, Neb.
Nebraska def. Davidson 3-0 (15-3, 15-5, 15-3)
Nebraska def. San Diego 3-0 (15-12, 15-8, 15-9)
Dec. 2-3 at Honolulu, Hawaii
Utah def. Colorado 3-0 (15-10, 15-6, 17-15)
Dec. 2-3 at College Station, Texas
Texas A&M def. Stephen F. Austin 3-0 (15-4, 15-7, 15-1)
Texas A&M def. North Carolina 3-0 (15-8, 15-4, 15-8)
Dec. 2-3 at Fort Collins, Colo.
Kansas State def. Louisville 3-0 (15-1, 15-6, 15-10)
Colorado State def. Kansas State 3-1 (15-12, 8-15, 15-13, 15-10)
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 12 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (15:02) * 29 lines
1999 BIG 12 VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS
(Through 12/7/99)
# NCAA Tournament participant
# Nebraska
# Texas A&M
# Texas
# Kansas State
# Baylor
# Colorado
Kansas
Texas Tech
Missouri
Oklahoma
Iowa State
Hawaii already has the WAC championship won as Penn State has in the Big 10.
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Response 13 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (15:12) * 0 lines
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 14 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (15:16) * 2 lines
http://www.cvu.com/wu/ncaad199.shtml
Shows the team standings in each conference but it did not post well - so I scribbled it.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 15 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (20:40) * 15 lines
Tomorrow Penn State Lady Lions plays Stanford Lady Cardinal for the NCAA Volleyball Championship in Honolulu at the UH main campus...and we don't get ESPN2. Hmmm...
December 18, 1999
Final Four matches played at Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, HI.
Penn State (35-1) vs. Stanford (31-2), 5 p.m. HST (ESPN2 Tape Delay 12/19, 11 am, PT)
December 16, 1999
Final Four matches played at Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, HI.
Penn State (35-1) def. Pacific (32-3) 14-16, 15-5, 15-6, 7-15, 15-12. (ESPN2 Tape Delay 12/17, 10 a.m., PST)
Stanford (31-2) def. Long Beach State (31-4) 15-10, 15-10, 15-3. (ESPN2 Tape Delay 12/17, 10 pm, PT).
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 16 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (19:24) * 146 lines
From today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
TV or not TV
is the question
Some think volleyball should
change for television; others
like the game the way it is
By Cindy Luis
Star-Bulletin
Volleyball, volleyball, wherefore art thou, volleyball?
Deny thy roots and refuse thy game.
What's in a name? That which we call volleyball by any other name still won't be shown on television.
With apologies to The Bard ...
The two houses in volleyball are feuding. There's been talk of a let serve, a two-point play for hitting behind the
10-meter line, the use of a tri-color ball a la the defunct ABA.
The FIVB, the international organization, has already jumped to a new system, complete with rally scoring through
the entire match and the use of a libero, a roving defensive specialist.
The U.S. collegiate game is governed by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, which is holding its annual
convention in Waikiki. The AVCA has been slower to make wholesale changes but has tinkered with various
elements of the game, including experimenting with three formats using timed rally scoring just this past spring.
TODAY'S TITLE CLASH
No. 1 Penn State is in the championship match for the third
year in a row.
The Nittany Lions have lost in the two previous finals in five
games, including the 1997 title match to Stanford. No. 2 Stanford
is going for its fifth title in 1990s
Game time: 5 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Most of the changes are designed to make the sport more marketable and attractive to television. But what it has
done is begun to alienate a solid fan base in pursuit of some vague ratings number.
"I'm concerned about the next few years,'' said Stanford women's coach Don Shaw, whose team plays for the
national title today at the Stan Sheriff Center. "I like the sport the way it is, but then I'm a purist. I played volleyball
(collegiately in the 1970s) when it was more of a counterculture thing and it was a nice little world we had.
"When it does grow bigger, I hope it stays as close to the original game. I don't know if TV is the determining factor
but I hate to see the game change drastically for a spot on TV.''
Hawaii has shown that volleyball done right on television is a marketable commodity. However, not many places
have a captive audience, one without a major pro team, and one with grassroots love of the game firmly
entrenched.
A prime example is this week's final four. ESPN2 will air it sometime next week, cut into 90-minute packages that
fit a time slot.
"Until the ratings get better, you're not going to get these matches live nationally,'' said Chris Marlowe, here to do
ESPN's coverage this week. "Of course, I would prefer to see the matches live but, at this point in time, the
networks don't seem to believe in volleyball as much as the aficionados do.
"There's not a number of big sponsors saying 'We want to see it live and we'll pay for it.'
"KFVE has done a great job in Hawaii but they've also done a lot of games (since 1986). And the Wahine and
Rainbows have also been good products to sell.''
Dave Shoji doesn't agree.
"I don't think our state is all that different,'' said Shoji, who just completed his 25th season as the Hawaii women's
coach. "People who like volleyball will watch. Why risk the integrity of the game?
"With different philosophies dictating the international and collegiate games, it's been difficult to keep the game
uniform. The FIVB seems to change the rules at a whim and are too quick to jump while, at the collegiate level,
we're too slow.''
What is beginning to happen is the international powers are seeing that change is not all that good. Some of the
rally scoring variations have turned matches into routs lasting less than an hour.
"I think before you can figure out the rules, you have to figure out which game you're going to play,'' said former
Wahine All-American Deitre Collins, the head coach at UNLV. "Some of the international rule changes are
interesting but now you see the FIVB not too happy with it. Some of the changes were made for television but if it's
going to end up being tape-delay, I'm not going to be gung ho about it unless there's a real reason to do it.''
Collins pointed to the more liberal contact allowed on the serve-receive as one point of confusion.
"When I played (in the 1980s), serve-receive is a skill you really had to learn. The crowd now doesn't understand
the rules because they keep changing.''
What's good for the international game may not be good for the domestic game. And what's good for the men's
collegiate game may not work at the women's level.
The men's game has become more of a power, sideout game. Rally scoring works, as does the libero.
"I think rally score is a pretty good way to play the men's game,'' said UC I rvine men's coach Charlie Brande, a
former Wahine assistant. "And the libero brings the little guy back into game.
"I like the let serve in a rally score game. As it is, rally scoring takes away the jump serve. If you miss (the jumper)
then it's really two points. You lose one and the other team gets one for the missed serve. The let serve brings the
jumper back into the match.''
The let serve (where the ball is played if it hits the net and continues to the other side of the court) has met with
mixed reaction.
"I think the let serve rewards someone for making a mistake,'' said Long Beach State women's coach Brian
Gimmillaro, who spoke on the subject during yesterday's convention sessions. "I don't think it's good for the sport.
"And awarding two points for a back-row attack? Then give three points for hitting the mascot. That takes skill.''
But Gimmillaro is serious about where the sport is going.
"The scoring system is experimental and we know something is going to change after 2000,'' he said. "What it will
be, we don't know. But I have a hard time accepting a system that has failed.
"The reason that there is no consensus among the coaches is because the experiments didn't work. The traditional
scoring system had great thought to it. It didn't happen overnight.''
Last year, the Division I Women's Volleyball Committee voted to maintain the current scoring format for the 1999
Division I Women's Volleyball Championship. But the committee also voted to request that institutions experiment
with three prescribed formats in spring with the intent to likely change to a point-per-play format effective with the
2000 championship and submit a survey of how the experimentation went.
The consensus was that there was no consensus.
"We played with the new scoring system against Alberta in Kona last month,'' said Rainbow men's coach Mike
Wilton, who used the rally score to 25, best-of-five format. "What I don't like is that it's real difficult, almost
impossible, to mount a comeback if you fall way behind.
"On the up side, every point is real important and you have to be on it all the time. I like the old scoring system and I
don't like the (liberal) first contact on the serve. My feeling is when you receive the serve, it had better come out
clean.''
The Rainbows will use the libero next month and the tri-color ball.
"Volleyball is an amazing game, a wonderful game,'' said former Pacific player Heather Cox, the color
commentator for ESPN volleyball. "What it needs is more exposure and for the game to be consistent.
"I'm all in favor of making it more TV-friendly as long as we don't change the game too much.''
The powers that be might be wise to reread "Romeo and Juliet.'' A rose by any other name still left both sides
dead.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 17 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (22:30) * 8 lines
Penn State lady Lions win NCAA Volleyball Championship
Penn State beat Stanford in three straight
15 - 2
15 - 10
15 - 7
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 18 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (12:54) * 69 lines
Saturday, December 18, 1999 - 9:30:48 PM HST
Nittany Lions celebrate NCAA title
Penn State pounds Stanford to win its first national
championship
By Cindy Luis
Star-Bulletin
Happy Valley is an even happier place tonight.
The Penn State women's volleyball team broke through for its first NCAA title tonight when the top-ranked
Nittany Lions hammered No. 2 Stanford, 15-2, 15-10, 15-7, in front of 7,578 (10,252 tickets) at the Stan
Sheriff Center.
The blowout took 80 minutes, the shortest final in the 19 years of the tournament. It eclipsed the previous
mark of 91 minutes set when Stanford swept Hawaii for the 1996 championship in Cleveland.
"There was a lot of passion on our side of the court tonight,'' said Penn State coach Russ Rose, whose
team had lost the last two title matches in five sets. "It feels great. I was reminded before the match that I
could become the first coach to lose in three consecutive title games. That's one club I didn't want to join.''
What Penn State (36-1) did join was the list of teams that have won the championship in straight sets
(now at seven). The Nittany Lions also are the first team east of the Mississippi to win a Division I
volleyball title, joining Hawaii, Nebraska and Texas as the only non-California schools to earn a banner.
The 19 points scored by Stanford (31-3) was the third-lowest in tournament history, behind Hawaii's 15
points in 1996 and Nebraska's 18 points in the 1989 final, was also played in Honolulu.
"Our past finishes motivated me,'' said Penn State senior All-American setter Bonnie Bremner.
"I think the difference this year was we didn't peak at the beginning,'' added senior All-American Lauren
Cacciamani, who had match highs of 20 kills and eight blocks en route to being named the final four's
most valuable player. "We lost our first match so we knew we could not have an undefeated season. I
think we got better as the year went on and it was a uphill progression.''
Penn State jumped out to an 8-0 lead in Game 1 and it was all downhill for Stanford after that. The
Cardinal (31-3) was in negative hitting numbers until early in Game 3 and finished the match hitting
negative .008 as a team.
"I think that's the first time we've ever been in negative numbers since maybe the early days of the
program,'' said Stanford coach Don Shaw, failing in his attempt for a fifth title in the 1990s. "The only thing
we did better tonight was we have three more digs than them.
"We've never been blown out like this. We never had a chance. Now I know how Hawaii felt when we beat
them in 1996.''
Stanford threatened once. In Game 3, three Penn State hitting errors helped the Cardinal to close to 7-6.
"We've had teams come back on us before,'' said Cacciamani. "I think at that point I told my teammates,
'Do it now.'
"We had to push away. We did and we were in control.''
Penn State applied the pressure, outscoring a stunned Stanford team with an 8-1 run. Cacciamani
served for the final four points.
Joining Cacciamani and Bremner on the all-tournament team were teammate Carrie Schonveld (nine kills
and 10 digs); Stanford's Kerri Walsh and Logan Tom and Elsa Stegemann of Pacific.
Walsh, who shared national player of the year honors with Cacciamani, led Stanford with 11 kills but hit
.000. Tom had 15 digs and six blocks but was held to seven kills in hitting negative .097.
Penn State was undefeated last season until losing in the final to Long Beach State in five. The Nittany
Lions opened this year with a five-set loss to Florida.
Penn State is 104-4 over the past three seasons.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 19 of 31: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (08:45) * 2 lines
I wonder what year Texas won that banner?
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 20 of 31: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (08:46) * 4 lines
You know who's a huge volleyball fan? Forrest Stroud who does the reviews
in our apps conference. He has a little corner of his website devoted to
college volleyball, or used to anyway.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 21 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (14:21) * 8 lines
Gotta go check that. Good for him! I am still waiting to see anything mentioned on ESPN or CNN. Nothing!!!
According to http://www.TexasSports.com/news/vol/wvol/1999/11/30/943986436496.html
UT won their first and only NCAA Volleyball Championship in 1988
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 22 of 31: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (08:56) * 3 lines
This includes both mens and womens teams?
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 23 of 31: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Dec 22, 1999 (12:21) * 1 lines
Just women's teams. Men's season begins after the New Year.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 24 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Wed, Aug 23, 2000 (22:20) * 14 lines
Hawaiian Style Classic
Hilo, Hawai`i
August 31- September 2, 2000
Brigham Young
University-Hawaii, Hawaii
Pacific University,
University of Hawaii at Hilo,
Chaminade University,
Northwood University,
Cal State Dominguez Hills,
Texas A&M(Commerce)
Meanwhile Penn State is at UTexas Tournament the same weekend!
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 25 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Thu, Aug 24, 2000 (00:28) * 1 lines
(I was gonna make some flippant remark about Texas being so big that each department at Aggieland U had its own team...but...)
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 26 of 31: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Apr 29, 2001 (23:37) * 1 lines
Any volleyball news?
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 27 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (21:47) * 1 lines
Hawaii is doing pretty well... not sure of Penn State. UHHilo is boring. Let me check on the standing and post them...
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 28 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (21:54) * 8 lines
AUSTIN, TX — Jerritt Elliott, former interim head women's volleyball coach at the University of
Southern California who led USC to the 2000 NCAA Tournament semifinals and who had the No. 1
rated recruiting classes in the nation the last two years, has been named the women's volleyball
head coach at The University of Texas. The announcement was made Friday morning, April 13, by
Chris Plonsky, Texas Senior Associate Athletics Director for Men's and Women's Athletics, who
currently oversees the women's athletics director duties at UT. Full Story... http://www.cvu.com/wu/heads/2001/tex0413.shtml
March 30, 2001
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 29 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (21:55) * 66 lines
TATE COLLEGE, PA — On the night that junior setter
Jose Quinones (Bayamon, P.R.) broke the Penn State
career assist record, the No. 10 Penn State men’s
volleyball team cruised to a 3-0 (30-25, 30-16, 30-24)
victory over St. Francis. The Nittany Lions (19-5)
remained a perfect 12-0 at Rec Hall in 2001 in
defeating the Red Flash (16-7).
In the first game, the Nittany Lions got out to a strong
start, with big kills from Carlos Guerra (Tamaulipus,
Mex.) and Zeljko Koljesar (Kitchener, Ont.). Behind the
usually stellar play-making of Quinones and a solid
defensive effort from Zach Slenker (Dallastown, Pa.)
and Steve Aird (London, Ont.), the Lions led 15-13 at
the technical time out. Both squads were hitting well
early with the Nittany Lions (.727) edging the Red
Flash (.583). With the score see-sawing back and
forth, a Koljesar ace, followed by a
Slenker/Quinones/Kevin Hodge (Dublin, Ohio) block,
gave PSU a 26-23 lead and forced a St. Francis time
out. Penn State kept up the pressure, as one of the
Lions’ 8.5 game one blocks ended the first game at
30-25. PSU closed out the stanza hitting .346
compared to .138 for the Red Flash.
Opening with another Nittany Lion block, courtesy of
Quinones and Slenker, PSU eased through the first half
of the second frame, leading 15-6 at the time out. Up
22-11, a Guerra kill off a Quinones assist gave the
Nittany Lion setter the career assist record of 4,761,
breaking Dan Pollock’s mark and bringing the Rec Hall
crowd to its feet. Penn State rode this momentum to a
30-16 game two win.
A Rhonee Rojas (Miliani, Hawaii) kill opened the third
game for Penn State, but St. Francis took an early 7-3
lead. The Nittany Lions raised their level of play and
tied the score at 10, only to trail 15-12 at the time
out. Penn State tied the score at 20 on an ace from
Norman Keil (St. James, N.Y.) and took the lead on a
combo block from Josh Briggs (Racine, Wis.) and
Richard Schneider (Virginia Beach, Va.). A pair of
Briggs/Rojas blocks gave the Lions momentum down
the stretch, as PSU led 28-22 when Penn State
basketball player Jared Houston entered the game for
the first time, eliciting another loud ovation from the
Rec Hall faithful. The Nittany Lions closed the match
with kills from Josh Mowrey (DuBois, Pa.) and Rojas.
For the match, Guerra led Penn State with 12 kills
(.455) and Koljesar had 7 kills on 12 swings (.417).
Nate Matthews (Rochester, N.Y.) and Quinones
combined for 35 assists. Libero Aird added six digs and
seven assists, while Slenker had nine blocks. Overall,
the Nittany Lions out-blocked the Red Flash 16.5-6
and out-hit them .359-.083.
For St. Francis, Chris Telesco had 11 kills and Chad
O’Brien had 30 assists.
The Nittany Lions host Lewis Friday, April 6 at 7:30
p.m. in the final home game prior to the EIVA
Tournament. Senior Steve Aird will be honored as he
plays in his last regular season game in Rec Hall.
Old news..... sorry. I need to hunt other than Yahoo's usually great sites.
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 30 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (22:09) * 1 lines
We are all busy playing, and midnight madness begins this weekend... why are there no women's volleyball standings?!
Topic 50 of 71 [sports]: College Volleyball
Response 31 of 31: NittanyLion (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (22:10) * 1 lines
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