Averill POW, Hawaii up to 7 in poll
From the MPSF
Senior middle blocker Taylor Averill was named men’s volleyball’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/Molten Player of the Week (Jan. 19-25). It is Averill’s second weekly conference award this season.
The San Jose, Calif. native played a big role, along with his teammates, in netting two consecutive victories last weekend over UC Santa Barbara (Jan. 16 & 18), ending a seven-match losing streak to the Gauchos. The Rainbow Warriors improved to a 5-1 record, opening MPSF-play 2-0.
Averill accumulated a .513 middle attack (25-5-39) for the two-game series, while adding 10 blocks (2 solo), four digs, and one service ace.
The Warriors will take one week off before flying out for their road-opening series against No. 3 UC Irvine, Jan. 28 and Jan. 30 for another MPSF match-up.
As for the Poll:
http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-1-19-15/
Loyola stays at 1. Lewis up 5 to 2. then UCI, BYU, sc, Pepperdine,
and then Hawaii
Yes, agree that Lewis moving up to 2 is surprising. They beat Carthage and Harvard. seriously.
A family member asked me recently how often balls are replaced in the men’s game. I didn’t have an answer, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a new ball was needed after Sunshine scored UH’s 16th point in S2 of Friday’s match!!
Well-deserved recognition, Taylor!
Here is a picture of Holt above the net, Cindy had mentioned that he has great verticle.
http://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2015/1/19/MVB_0119155829.aspx?path=mvball
s/b vertical
Congrats to Averill.
Big weekend for the Warriors. The Sunday win was all the more impressive because of how everyone contributed … 5 hitters with double digit kills. Nicely done.
Averill would likely credit Kanetake’s, Pono’s, and Siki’s passing and Jenning’s setting for this weekend’s hitting success.
http://www.avca.org/awards/players-of-the-week/men-division-one-two/
Did Averill get recognized for not only the conference PoW but also for the D1-D2 PoW? The MPSF/UH press release makes no mention of the AVCA award.
saw Lily K and Hubby? w/ their adorable baby… they look’d great!
7 He did. UH release came out on Monday after the MPSF announcement. AVCA POW comes out on Tuesday.
Have a new thread started so closing out this one.
http://hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=27231