UCLA, Ohio St advance
By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2018Photo courtesy UH All-America banquet Originally told HM guys weren’t going Nice they could On Tuesday Bruins top Harvard 3-1 Ohio St 3-2 over UCI
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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.
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Congrats to van Tilburg, Tuileta 1st Team A-A, 3 other Warriors honored
By Cindy Luis on April 30, 2018https://www.avca.org/awards/all-regional-all-america-awards/di-ii-men.html The Rainbow Warriors today had five players named to one of the three AVCA All-America teams, led by first-team selections Stijn van Tilburg, a junior outside hitter, and senior libero Larry “Tui” Tuileta. Named to the second team was junior setter Joe Worsley while sophomore middle Patrick Gasman and opposite Rado Parapunov were honorable mention. There were 10 players on each of the first and second teams. Only Long Beach State had more: 3 first team and 1 2nd. […]
Hawaii seeded 3 at NCAAs, Cal Poly wins pairs event
By Cindy Luis on April 29, 2018SandBows watched the selection show via computer under the team tent. Cal Poly’s No. 2 seed Tia Miric and Torrey Van Winden take pairs over Nele Barber and Sasha Karelov of Long Beach State 2-1 in finals. Pairs tournament stars at 10 a.m. Championship at 230 This is link to the Big West page that has the pairing. http://www.bigwest.org/sports/wbvball/info/champs/ there is live scoring but haven’t found the link yet NCAA selection show at ncaa.com at 1 p.m. HST Tweets by […]
BWC Title Match: SandBows win Hawaii 4, Long Beach State 1
By Cindy Luis on April 28, 2018http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=218316 not sure what happened to my original post but aboves is link to live stats.
SandBows win 28th, Todd signs with Warriors
By Cindy Luis on April 27, 2018Tournament website below http://www.bigwest.org/sports/wbvball/info/champs/ Tournament opens at 10 a.m. Queen’s Beach first match CSUN v CSU Bakersfield Hawaii plays that winner at noon There is Live Stats for all matches http://statbroadcast.com/ Mentioned that Todd made his decision last week They appear to have some other players coming in but those will be walk-ons. This is the release from UH Charlie Wade secured the commitment of Alaka’i Todd of Punahou School in Honolulu for the 2019 season. “We are excited to […]
Thursday check-in: Ohio State sweeps King
By Cindy Luis on April 26, 2018apologies. been traveling then taking care of Big West beach. As mentioned, Warriors got a commit from Alaka’i Todd. All-America comes out Monday. I would expect at least a couple of first team, maybe second team. Beach selection show is Sunday during the BWC pairs event at Queens not quite sure why folks had problems finding the beach bracket. been up on UH’s website for a few days http://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2018/4/20/womens-beach-volleyball-sandbows-host-2018-big-west-tournament.aspx In the big green box at left, there are links for […]
The morning after RPI: UH 4, UCI 6
By Cindy Luis on April 23, 2018Apologies. Been traveling all day And in the middle of a couple of VB-related stories latest RPI finally released. No surprise. UH 4, UCI 6 https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-men/nc/nc-mens-volleyball-rpi Strength of schedule: UH 1, UCI 10 Doesn’t sound like there is any recourse. Have not heard from Matlin if he is filing a complaint Oh, not that the poll matters but the coaches voted UH 4, UCI 5 https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/4-23-2018.html
Hawaii snubbed, at-large to UCI
By Cindy Luis on April 22, 2018absolutely stunnng UCI gets second at large The season is over for the Rainbow Warriors. Hawaii (19-8), coming off a runner-up finish in Saturday’s Big West men’s volleyball tournament, was not one of two at-large teams selected for the NCAA championship field announced today. Instead, UC Irvine (21-9), which lost to Hawaii twice this season, was chosen as the second team from the Big West. It was a stunning selection in that Hawaii was the only team to defeat both […]