Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
About the blog host
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.
First match http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=211693 No. 3 UCLA clinches dual with No. 17 Stanford 3-0 Stanford at No. 5 Hawaii, 1 p.m. live stats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=211694 UCLA at Hawaii, 4 p.m. live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=211695
Links for Friday’s match TV: Spectrum OC 16 on BigWest.tv http://bigwest.sidearmstreaming.com/watch/?Live=688 Radio 1500-AM http://nbcsportsradiohawaii.com/ Livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=201038 Today’s other matches CSUN def. Cal Lutheran, 25-13, 25-12, 25-18 UC San Diego at UC Santa Barbara, Gauchos up 2-1 At Pepperdine Waves def. UCLA, 25-21, 25-23, 25-20. The Bruins’ third straight loss At Penn State George Mason def. Nittany Lions, 25-22, 25-19, 25-22
Hawaii remains at No. 3 behind unanimous No. 1 Long Beach State (13-0) and UCLA (14-2) Ohio State (11-2) trades places with UC Irvine (11-3) for 4 and 5. Men’s poll link https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/2-19-2018.html Beach poll https://www.avca.org/polls/beach/2-19-18.html SandBows, who finished third last season, at No. 5 Defending champion USC at 1, runnerup Pepperdine at 2 UCLA at 3 followed by Florida State. SandBows open this week with No. 17 Stanford and UCLA on Saturday, Ching Complex Poll has expanded from 15 […]
Match is free tonight. Starting a little later than 5 p.m. Everyone still warming up. They are supposed to have some sort of skills contests but haven’t seen the format but there are orange cones on the court. No stats Among those here: Presho, Beckwith, Lofy, Tuyay. Tony Ching and Siki Zarkovic pulled out at last minute. last thread someone asked about Wahine doing autograph signing. That’s what UH said in their release. I see Maglio and Greeley in the […]
Someone asked about cost. I believe it is free. The No. 3 Hawaii men’s volleyball team tunes up for its inaugural Big West Conference season with Sunday’s annual alumni match at the Stan Sheriff Center. More than two dozen former Rainbow Warriors are expected to attend the event which begins at 5 p.m. with a skills competition between alumni and varsity players. Among those expected to play in the best-of-three match are All-Americans Mark Presho (1990-93), Tony Ching (2000-03), Brian […]
No change in poll from Nos. 1-10 The Beach at 1 with 24 votes UCLA at 2 and the other vote Hawaii at 3 Warriors host alumni match Sunday at 5 pm SSC Open Big West play next week hosting UCI From previous post Missed banquet Was visiting mom on mainland So I won’t have news til I get back Pani is redshirting Monkhouse very impressive As for subsidies no men’s volleyball does not pay for the travel And any […]
Hawaii at No. 3 in Monday’s AVCA Division I-II Men’s Volleyball Top 15. The Rainbow Warriors (10-1) remained behind No. 1 Long Beach State (10-0) and UCLA (10-1). The 49ers, the only undefeated team in the country, received 23 first-place votes while the Bruins (10-1) had the other team. Also staying put were UC Irvine (11-2) at No. 4 and Ohio State at No. 5 Full poll at https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/2-5-2018.html Warriors are off until their alumni match on Feb. 18 they […]
Cougars end 3-match slide with 25-23, 25-19, 25-20 sweep of UCSB in Provo At UCSD, Stanford and Tritons tied 1-1 at CSUN, Matadors up 2-0 on UC Santa Cruz At UC Irvine UCLA up 2-1 and leading in Set 4 Links for Saturday Hawaii vs. Thompson Rivers No TV, online stream at http://bigwest.sidearmstreaming.com/watch/?Live=711 Radio joined in progress after UH men’s basketball at Cal Poly BUT radio will be synched on BigWest.TV before 1420-am picks up the feed. Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=201037