CCIW volleyball

[WLCALUM83]

Noticed Carthage is ranked #4 in the latest AVCA poll:

[OshDude]

My Central/Midwest VB blog is still around.

[Fireupdutch]

Osh Dude... your blog is great!  Thanks for working on behalf of great volleyball being played by great student-athletes in Division III.

[OshDude]

Osh Dude... your blog is great!  Thanks for working on behalf of great volleyball being played by great student-athletes in Division III.

Thanks for visiting. Wonder if there's anyone out there with a Great Lakes blog. Wish I had the energy to do another region. Some great VB over there. I mentioned it on my blog at the time, but I was impressed with Hope, Calvin and Heidelberg at last year's regional. Hope's Nora Slenk became one of my favorite players after about five points.

[WLCALUM83]

Midwest Conference Volleyball tournament pairings are as follows (per schedule off MWC site)

11/6   Grinnell vs. Beloit, Ripon vs. St. Norbert
11/7    Semi-Final winners

            (Popped this on the CCIW board rather than set up another board for just one or 2 replies.)

[WLCALUM83]

CCIW tourney final:  North Central vs. Carthage

MWC final:  Beloit vs. St. Norbert

[petemcb]

CCIW tourney final:  North Central vs. Carthage

MWC final:  Beloit vs. St. Norbert

Any word on whether the CCIW final is at NCC or Carthage?  I suppose with the amount of effort it took to type this, I could have looked it up.  Oh well.

[petemcb]

Never mind.  Carthage @ 2:00.  FYI.

[WLCALUM83]

Carthage's football announcer just passed word along that the Lady Reds swept North Central in 3 to take the CCIW championship!

[petemcb]

I saw the Lady Reds 2 or 3 times last year and they looked like they could compete beyond the D3 level.  I believe they returned most of their important players, and one of them, Drewann Pancratz, is only a sophomore this year.  They might have a nice run through the tournament.

[WLCALUM83]

The football announcer was saying he heard they may end up in Holland, MI or Oshkosh WI, with perhaps as high as a #2 seed.

[WLCALUM83]

CCIW tourney final:  North Central vs. Carthage

MWC final:  Beloit vs. St. Norbert

MWC Champ:  St. Norbert, who knocked off Beloit in 3 per conference web-site!

[AndOne]

As CCIW Tourney champ Carthage (31-5) receives the conference's automatic bid to the national tourney. However, there appears a good chance North Central, who finished with a great 34-4 record, will also receive a bid.

[OshDude]

The football announcer was saying he heard they may end up in Holland, MI or Oshkosh WI, with perhaps as high as a #2 seed.

Could be in St. Louis as well. I think either or both of Whitewater/Carthage will be at Wash U because the MIAC powers have to be in Oshkosh. Need to somehow fill out the Wash U 2-4 seeds to go along with Nebraska Wesleyan. North Central could fill out St. Louis with three Pool A's (maybe Webster, Simpson and Lakeland?).

[cubs]

The football announcer was saying he heard they may end up in Holland, MI or Oshkosh WI, with perhaps as high as a #2 seed.

Could be in St. Louis as well. I think either or both of Whitewater/Carthage will be at Wash U because the MIAC powers have to be in Oshkosh. Need to somehow fill out the Wash U 2-4 seeds to go along with Nebraska Wesleyan. North Central could fill out St. Louis with three Pool A's (maybe Webster, Simpson and Lakeland?).

Looks like Carthage got a #4 seed, as they will open up aginst Simpson College, and then face the winner of Nebraska Wesleyan/UW Platteville in St. Louis.

Great work on your predictions however, as just about everything you said came true, with exception to Lakeland going to Michigan instead of Missouri.