Noticed LaVerne hasn't lost too much of its' step. That squad's made it to the Finals at least twice in the last several years.
Quote from: WLCALUM83 on September 17, 2009, 04:08:37 PM
Noticed LaVerne hasn't lost too much of its' step. That squad's made it to the Finals at least twice in the last several years.
ULV had a rough weekend, losing three of four. Hard to imagine the Leos being as good as last year without Brianna Gonzales, who was probably the best OH I saw last year. Crista Jones can't be the only one putting the ball away. We'll find out soon enough if ULV is once again in the national mix. It doesn't get much tougher than the Teri Clemens Invite at Wash U. ULV plays the Nos. 1, 6 and 7 teams in the nation this weekend. My guess is the rankings hold up and ULV goes winless.
All of the traditional West powers – ULV, Trinity, Pac Lu, Cal Lutheran, Puget Sound – appear to be down a bit. My money is still on Southwestern despite its own iffy start. Upstarts UT-Dallas and Austin are intriguing though.
Pacific Lutheran's record is deceptive in that that squad has already played a boatload of ranked opponents.
LaVerne's website indicates that squad lost to 3 nationally ranked oppenents 9/18-19/
In contrast, Pacific Lutheran goes 2-0, defeating George Fox and Pacific-OR
I just wanted to say the Women's Volleyball is one of the most exciting college sports there is. Non-stop action and lots of fun. I was a fan when I went to San Jose State, and now I root for Redlands. Great job ladies!
Here's the account of last night's Puget Sound/Pacific Lutheran match:
http://ww.golutes.com/sports/wvball/2009-10/releases/092309ups
Pacific-OR comes from behind to beat Willamette 3-1 last night:
Final just in:
Whitworth over Puget Sound (25-18, 25-17, 25-19)
(Per Whitworth stats Kaimi Rocha led the home squad with 12 kills, B Bickenstaff had 7 for Puget Sound.(
10/6 SCIAC final just in:
Pomona-Pitzer over Whittier (23-25, 25-15, 25-17, 25-23)
(stats: Pomona-Pitzer attack pct. .407--
PP-Amos 17 kills; Whittier--Nakano 17 kills)
#16 Ranked Pacific Lutheran/Pacific-OR on deck:
Final just in:
Pacific Lutheran over Pacific-OR (25-12, 25-17, 25-23)
Stats: Pacific Lutheran--Archibald 14 digs, Joynt 13 kills
Pacifc OR --Alexa Block-10 kills
Cal Lutheran vs. Whittier on deck:
Final just in:
Cal Lutheran over Whittier 3 games to 1
10/23 finals:
Puget Sound over Willamette (25-21, 25-21, 25-19)
Per Logger stats: UPS-- Boyce & Kamphaus 9 kills each
Willamette-- Abeloe-- 9 kills, 3 players with double digit digs.
Whitworth over George Fox (25-20, 26-24, 25-17)
Per stats: Whitworth --Ka'ipo Rocha 11 kills
GFU-- Hovee 9 kills
2 Northwest Conference finals:
Pacific Lutheran ov4er Whitman (25-20, 25-20, 25-21)
per Pacific Lutheran stats-- Joynt 13 kills, 21 digs
Whitman --Graves 15 kills
Puget Sound over Whitworth (25-14, 18-25, 22-25, 25-14, 16-14)
per Puget Sound stats-- Sumida 20 digs
Whitworth-- Obert 21 digs
Following 2 of tonight's NWC matches--
will post results as they become available.
Puget Sound over pesky Whitman (25-20, 25-14, 25-21)
(Loggers trailed for most of game 3)
Per UPS stats: UPS--Boyce 9 kills, Sumida 14 digs
Whitman--Brewer 10 kills, Gravew 20 digs
Lewis & Clark over Pacific-OR (25-14, 25-9, 25-17)
(L&C also trailed for a lot of game 3)
Per Pacific-OR stats: L&C --Holland 10 kills, Hall 12 digs
Pacific-OR --Thompson 15 digs, 3 players with 6 kills each.
A little bonus coverage here:
George Fox over Linfield (25-18, 26-28, 25-19, 25-22)
Per GFU stats: GFU-- Pledger 9 kills, 3 players with 21 or more digs
Linfield-- Gimson 15 kills, Lau 33 digs
SCIAC Tourney final: La Verne vs. Redlands
Here is the 2010 NWC Pre-Season Volleyball Poll:
http://www.nwcsports.com/sports/wvball/2010-11/news/poll
Chapman/Redlands joined in progress-Redlands up early in Set 1 as I post:
Final; Redlands over Chapman in 4
(25-11, 25-20, 18-25, 25-20)
Redlands: Buckner 16 kills, 14 digs
(Redlands stats)
Oxy pulled off an upset at home last night:
http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wvball/2010-11/releases/092110_VB_UR
Cal Lutheran/Oxy just underway:
Final: Cal Lutheran takes it in 4 sets:
(25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 27-25)
Cal Lutheran/Claremont-MS on deck:
Final: Cal Lutheran over C/M/S in 4:
(25-23, 23-25, 25-22, 25-19)
Final: No. 15 Cal Lutheran over No. 22 Oxy in 4
My question -- will this loss bounce Oxy right back out of the Top 25?
ARV Oxy/Chapman up shortly:
Final: Chapman over Oxy in 3
(25-16, 25-23 25-15)
Chapman: Buckendorf 12 kills, 9 digs
Top two girls from a high school in Illinois (Glenbard East) plan on enrolling at UW-Whitewater to play volleyball.
That pipeline from the Chicago suburbs to Whitewater continue to grows.
In its first SCIAC match, Chapman University knocked off #23 Occidental College in a tightly contested contest by a score of 3-2. Both teams should be factors in the conference this year. OXY is now 7-2 (0-1) and CU is 7-2 (1-0).
CMS/ #8 Cal Lutheran just getting underway as I post:
Final: #8 Cal Lutheran takes CMS in 5:
(26-24, 23-25, 25-23, 16-25, 15-13).
ARV Occidental beat Pomona Pitzer in 3
CONGRADULATIONS to the Caltech volleyball team for defeating Mills College for their first win of the season.
Caltech travels to Chapman for a match tonight. Chapman defeated UCSC in an important in-region win earlier today.
California Lutheran (13-1, 22-4) travels to Chapman (13-1, 21-4) for a rematch (first game won by Chapman) that will put
the winner in the driver's seat for the regular SCIAC season championship and #1 seed and host for the conference tourney.
The winner of the tourney would receive the NCAA auto-bid.
Cal Lu closes its season on Saturday against Caltech (0-14, 1-18) while Chapman closes its season on Saturday at Pomona-
Pitzer (4-10, 9-13).
Friday's game should be very interesting.
Should Chapman's Panthers win the title, it will become the first Chapman team to win a conference title, since Chapman became eligble for such a title this year.
Video/live stats for tonight's CLU/Chapman showdown can be viewed tonight at chapmanathletics.com starting at 7:30 PM.
Cal Lu earned the regular season championship tonight by defeating Chapman 3 sets to 0.
Cal Lu will host the SCIAC tourney next week.
Thursday night SCIAC playoff action:
Chapman over La Verne
Cal Lu over OXY
Cal Lu hosts Chapman Saturday for auto bid.
Both teams won 3-0.
Cal Lu over Chapman 3-0 to earn SCIAC auto bid.
Maybe a pool c for Chapman.
#17 Puget Sound/Linfield up shortly:
Puget Sound over Linfield
(25-14, 25-22, 25-22)
Trinity (TX) defeats Southwestern 25-23, 25-20, 25-20 to win the SCAC. The Pirates came in with a 12 match winning streak.
Mary Hardin-Baylor defeats UT-Dallas 25-23, 26-24, 23-25, 25-20 to win the ASC.
The question is whether either UT-D (22-11) or SW (26-8) will warrant a pool C bid. Southwestern was ranked sixth in last week's regional rankings, but I doubt they'll get a bid now. If not UHMB and Trinity may match up in the first round with the Lady Cru (25-5) already having a 3-1 win over Trinity early in the season to their credit.
Neither SW or UT-D got a bid, but somewhat surprisingly Colorado College (not ranked last week, 1-2 since [1-1 D3] including a five-set loss to SW) did. CC was 0-3 against SW this season but defeated Trinity once; SW was 0-3 against Trinity. I imagine CC's SOS was better. All three SCAC/ASC schools are off the the regional at Cal Lu.
Both SCAC schools get Round 1 wins:
Colorado College over #20 PLU, 25-18, 27-25, 25-23, 25-19.
Trinity (TX) over (RV) La Verne, 25-20, 25-20, 25-15.
CC gets #17 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps next; Trinity, most likely #3 Cal Lutheran.
It'll be C-M-S, a 15-13 victor in the fifth over Colorado, against Trinity (TX), an upset winner in four (26-24, 25-18, 11-25, 25-21) in tomorrow's regional final.
In '13 if memory serves me correctly, didn't Cal Lu knock off Trinity-TX on Trinity's home court? If that's true, this year was a bit of sweet revenge for the Lone Star State squad.
Yep, but like this year CLU was the higher seed (had to travel instead of host to save travel $).
Unfortunately while Trinity won the battle with CLU, they lost the war, falling to C-M-S in four sets. The Tigers will lose a lot of their skill players to graduation.
Cal Lu wins the 2015 National Championship.
Way to represent the SCIAC. :)
http://www.thesciac.org/sports/wvball/2015-16/releases/clu_natl_champs_vb
#10 Whitworth over Puget Sound in a 5-setter:
(25-16, 23-25, 25-14, 23-25, 15-9.)
Whitworth: .526 hitting pct. in 5th set.