Friday: BYU 3, UH 1

BYU will be inspired by UCSB’s upset victory against Pepperdine to come on fire against UH. I fear very much an upset especially on Senior night there. Hawaii will have to be extremely focused and consistent to stop their onslaught. Go Bows!

Last time UH was at BYU, they were robbed with that bad call on Nick West that took away Jace Olsen’s kill that would have tied it at 14 in the fifth.

Time for UH to get payback, would love nothing more than for UH two sweep both nights.

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Warriorfan, for once we agree! They got hosed at Smith Fieldhouse two years ago, but the ‘Bows will get their revenge tonight and tomorrow night. And for the record? I’ve softened my attitude on Charlie – but I DO believe a big reason the Warriors have improved so much is due in large part to Milan Zarkovic’s contributions, as well as Spencer’s – and the team members have said as much in their interviews. Charlie has assembled a great team – both coaching staff AND the players on the court, and he deserves credit for that.

When the Warriors take the national championship, it will have been a team effort all the way around, and no one could ever find a finer and more deserving team, university, and dedicated fan group.

UH still no digs, unbelievable.

meant still no blocks. that connection with Averill is not looking good right now, hope UH wakesup.

Jennings and Averill are just trying too hard on their serves. need to do what Kupono is doing and just keep it in play.

Jennings is going to Sedore too much in this set, needs to go back to his middles. Uh is passing well enough. Hope Jennings improves as the match goes on, his location has been shaky.

Darn UH just can”t block anything.
hope the block figures out these BYU hitters.

UH should have won.

Siki’s name hasn’t been mentioned much at all , he needs to get it going for UH to pull this out.

finally a block. Uh still isn’t playing well though, hope they wake up.

might want to try a setting change.

33. anytime he’s in the backrow it’s an opportunity for a dig.

At least Kolby somewhat woke up and got some impressive digs late in set two, need way more of that to pull this out.

I guess it takes more than the usual day or two of practice to adjust the service game to the thinner air. Since we don’t have the service game, we need to step up the blocking. BYU is sending six hands to the net more often than we are. Unless we can resurrect our block, S3 will be more of the same. Kolby has adjusted to the slightly faster balls. Come on Middles and Bigs, you know what it takes to win!

This has been the fey show.

Jennings bad serve is back, but I think it’s cause of the elevation.

Siki is seriously dissappointing today, not sure if UH can win with him playing this way.

Kupono needs to play this way every night, he has the potential, he’s hitting with confidence today which is great to see.

Not like that Cindy. That was a little too much, and for the record, I’ve always thought UH showboated a little too much.

okay finally, UH got lucky with some bad BYU errors, they need to pick up their game and win the next two, hopefully Siki will pull through and be his usual self in these last two sets.

okay seriously try Hartley coach Wade. Siki’s offense is hurting the team.

okay too many hitting errors now, can’t win when you give away easy points.

Wow another error. What a bad way for this win streak to end. UH killing themselves. 🙁

Just disappointing. Too many errors, the block was lethargic, digging didn’t get going till late in set 2. This set 4 just went south in that rotation, when Siki and Holt up front and neither could put anything away.

This loss hurts a lot, quarters in california now.

I am very dissapointed in coach Wade for not using his depth in set 4. Just no way around that. BYU wasn’t even serving that tough for Hartley not to have been given a shot.

Only positive is that it’s a loss now instead of in the post season.

Sad but not surprising UH lost. Now Irvine will host the semifinals and finals. No way would they lose to San Diego. We all feel deflated.

Qtrs still in Hawaii, Semis likely in California.

okay hoping this loss, where UH just played bad.
lights a fire.

If Siki shakes this off and plays back to normal and Fey keeps playing like tonight, UH will be very dangerous and they have showed they can win at Irvine already.

Disappointing loss…for sure. Oh well.

Not sure why the bench was not used as much this game. I kept waiting for it to happen, but it never did. No Radner, no Hartley, only some of Jones and no Garret. The bench is what carried us through some matches we almost lost.

BYU announcers were annoying,
Brandon…BYU was celebrating WAAAAAY more annoying than UH was. Lots of glares and words through the net from them. And the local boy BYU libero running around and jumping like a little kid and slamming the chair when they lost set 3….that dude was ticking me off.