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Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.
They were back at practice after a day off. Shoji had a longer discussion than normal before they started, lasted about 15 Told the team that every position was back up for grabs and that they were going to look at a number of options Those include Taylor playing left, Mitchem playing left, Castillo going back in the middle. He told me and TV that Long Beach exposed their weaknesses, which as has been discussed, the lack of production on […]
Hawaii down 10 Long Beach State drops two to 53 Wisconsin stays at 1 http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2016WVBrpi1.html Hawaii down 5 in AVCA poll to No. 17 https://www.avca.org/polls/di-women/10-10-2016.html
Links for today TV Fox Sports Prime Ticket OC228 streaming https://www.foxsportsgo.com Radio 1420-AM espn1420am.com http://www.longbeachstate.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wvolley.html?event=1503982&school=lbst&sport=wvolley&camefrom=&startschool=& 5) San Diego def. Saint Marys 25-22, 25-16, 25-21 6) Kansas def. Texas Tech 25-8, 25-18, 25-18 13) BYU def. Pacific 25-22, 25-11, 25-17 15) Penn State def. Rutgers 25-13, 25-16, 25-10 28) Dayton def. Fordham 25-14, 25-15, 25-16 Big West UC Davis def. Cal State Fullerton 25-16, 22-25, 25-17, 30-28
I’m not on the mainland but did speak to Shoji this morning Specifically asked about the move for Castillo to the left. He said that Castillo is going to be the third left and Burns will be the third middle. When Castillo plays will depend on how either Sibley or Granato are doing. Apparently that will be the sub. And at the moment Greeley is the passing sub, currently for Sibley. Burns then plays behind Mitchem and Maglio. Shoji said […]
Links for today (4 p.m. HST) espn3.com 1420-AM espn1420am.com http://www.sidearmstats.com/csun/wvball/ At Riverside Wednesday Long Beach State def. UC Riverside 21-25, 25-11, 25-20, 25-16 Top 25 from Wednesday 1) Minnesota lost to 15) Penn State 27-29, 25-21, 25-23, 14-25, 10-15 (Rose gets his 1200th) 2) Wisconsin def. Rutgers 25-6, 25-11, 25-11 6) Kansas def. Iowa State 23-25, 25-21, 25-22, 25-19 22) USC def. Arizona State 25-15, 25-18, 25-27, 25-20 24) Illinois def. Northwestern 25-18, 25-13, 25-18
Team on the 240 p.m. flight out of HNL Wednesday They are traveling 14 Only change from last trip is Smith is going for Ponce.
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2016WVBrpi1.html
Links OCSports BigWest.TV 1420-AM espn1420am.com http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=140318 Saturday scores 1) Nebraska lost to 19) Ohio State 25-17, 21-25, 21-25, 13-25 3) Wisconsin def. Indiana 25-19, 25-21, 25-15 4) Texas def. Kansas State 25-22, 25-27, 25-17, 18-25, 15-12 8) Kansas def. Baylor 22-25, 25-19, 25-13, 25-23 16) Penn State def. 22) Michigan 25-20, 25-19, 25-15 18) Michigan State def. Rutgers 25-14, 25-18, 25-18 21) Oregon def. Arizona 25-19, 21-25, 25-17, 26-24 23) USC def. 25) Utah 25-14, 17-25, 25-20, 23-25, 15-8 Big […]