Hawaii women’s volleyball: SWEEP No. 19 Hawaii 3, UCSB 0, T25 results
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Freshman hitter Hanna Hellvig put down 14 kills and senior hitter McKenna Ross added 12 as No. 19 Hawaii rebounded from being swept on Friday at Cal Poly with a 25-20, 25-22, 25-19 sweep of UC Santa Barbara in a Big West volleyball match today in Goleta, Calif.
Senior setter-hitter Norene Iosia added her 10th double-double of the season with 16 assists and 14 digs for the Rainbow Wahine (14-3, 4-2), winning at UCSB for the 10th straight time. The Gauchos (15-2, 5-1) saw their 13-match winning streak snapped when losing for the first time at home in nine contests.
Senior hitter Lindsey Ruddins, the conference kill leader, finished with 12 for UCSB. She added a double-double with 11 digs.
The Gauchos came in as the league leader in hitting at .262 but were held to .175. Libero Zoe Fleck had 12 of the team’s 41 digs.
Senior libero Rika Okino finished with 10 of Hawaii’s 43 digs. Senior setter Bailey Choy had 19 assists and junior defensive specialist Kyra Hanawahine had two of the Wahine’s four aces, both coming in Set 3 in a serving run that pushed Hawaii from a 14-13 lead to a 20-13 rout.
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Set 3; Hawaii wins 25-19
5:35: Hawaii stuffs Lindsey Ruddins to end it 25-19
5:32: Hawaii was up 21-14 and 22-16. Gauchos have closed to 22-18. TO UH
5:26: McKenna Ross with her 10th kill, Hanna Hellvig with her 13th. Wahine up 18-13. Kyra Hanawahine on a 4-0 serving run TO UCSB
5:23: Hawaii up 15-13 on the TTO. Wahine serve-receive has struggled, giving up 3 aces in Set 3
Set 2: UH win 25-20
Norene Iosia already with a double-double, her 10th on the year, sixth in a row. 13 assists, 10 digs.
5:04: Walk-off ace by Bailey Choy, ends it.
4:57: Lindsey Ruddins with 2 kills. UCSB closes to 19-17. TO UH
4:54: Norene Iosia on serve, Amber Igiede with the overpass. It’s 19-15. TO Gauchos.
4:45: Norene Iosia with her 24th ace of the season helps Hawaii pull out to a 10-7 lead. TO Gauchos.
Set 1: Wahine win 25-20
4:34: Kill by McKenna Ross ends it. Snaps UCSB consecutive sets won at 14.
4:31: Amber Igiede impeded a set then Tiffany Westerberg blocked. UCSB has closed to 23-19. TO UH
4:28: Hanna Hellvig with 3 straight kills. Hawaii up 22-17. TO UCSB
4:21: Behind Amber Igiede’s serving, Hawaii has erased a 4-point deficit, leading 14-13. TO UCSB
4:11: Tiffany Westerberg on the outside
4:09: Live stats now working
according to live stats
Hawaii has lost 0-3. stats are from UCSB’s last match
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Starting lineup
Hawaii flipping the lineup. Bailey Choy starting in the back row.
Amber Igiedie, Sky Williams, Bailey Choy, Norene Tosia, Hanna Hellvig, McKenna Ross
PROMO TONIGHT IN THE THUNDERDOME
Ping-Pong Ball Giveaway
(could be a disaster. Over-Under on how many times play is stopped for errant balls on the court? Ole)
4 p.m. Saturday
No. 19 Hawaii (13-3, 3-2) at UC Santa Barbara (15-1, 5-0)
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Top 25 matches
No. 1 Baylor def TCU, 25-18, 25-20, 34-32
No. 4 Texas (H) def. Oklahoma, 25-17, 27-25, 25-20
No. 8 Penn State (H) def. Ohio State, 25-12, 25-20, 25-19
No. 9 BYU (H) def. Santa Clara, 25-16, 25-12, 25-10
No. 10 Marquette (H) lost to No. 13 Creighton, 25-21, 25-23, 27-29, 29-31, 15-8
No. 15 Colorado State (H) def San Diego State, 25-19, 25-15, 25-16
No. 17 Illinois (H) def. Indiana, 25-10, 25-13, 25-14
No. 20 Purdue (A) def Northwestern, 25-22, 25-19, 25-18
Other Big West
Long Beach State (A) def. UC Riverside, 26-24, 25-19, 25-23
Cal State Fullerton def. UC Irvine, 19-25, 25-17, 25-18, 30-28
Think players need to better understand their zones, and when receiving, maybe think “catch the ball” which might translate to a read rather than reaction. Get your body behind the ball, keep it centered, and the adjust left or right , drop your shoulder to the target
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Looking forward to the UCSB game. Not writing off that game by any stretch. Go Wahine.
off subject for those who follow hawaii high school VB: how good are two sophomores for Kamehameha? second comings of Lily?
Kahahawai is really really good. Reminds me a lot kahumoku. Lanky but hits one hell of a ball. Not playing 6 RO yet but she will.
Robins is undersized but a gamer. She never gives up. Hope Robyn can land both of them
Keeping RAM goes with her gut feel who is where and when. When Hellvig is in the back, front should have Iosia, MB (Williams or Westerberg) and Akana/Wagoner. When Hellvig up front, MB (Igiede or Westerberg) and Akana/Wagoner. Ross does better as a later sub spark plug, hits hard, but not as much finesse. By coming in later still fresh and high velocity and opponents may be a little slower and fatigued. If blocking is lacking, Akana may pair better with MB (Williams or Westerberg) (because she is MB) over Wagoner. But I think Wagoner is a better 6 rotation option.
3. You think UH is watching Kahahawai ? Just saw her once against Iolani few days ago and she is good and only Soph.
Live online stream link goes to the Hawai‘i channel for Big West which doesn’t show anything on the schedule right now.
If you don’t see the match streaming there, go to UCSB’s Big West channel. It’s live there.
https://bigwest.org/watch/default.aspx?Live=2318&path=ucsb
5. of course they are watching all the good local players.
6. thanks for letting me know. updated it with UCSB link
Baylor still sweeping opponents away, but maybe starting to look a little human?
Is the video working for anyone?
Never mind. Got it.
Woohoo! Amazing job Wahine! 1000000% support you all! Go Bows!!!
This team is hard to figure out. I thought UCSB would have been better than Cal Poly. It seems like Ross has a really good game every 1-2 or 2-3 games.
Actually the biggest win of the year so far IMO. If you’d have to take either win vs. Poly or SB, would it be SB with its receiving votes and higher RPI (35)?
Got to watch it on Big West TV , up and down but was good. Wahine sweep and i thought it would be the other way round. Glad they prove me wrong. Maybe this will turn the table, and hopefully the two injured will return by next week end.
Makenna Ross had a huge game, Take that, Makenna detractors. She comes up big, at times.
Proud of Na Wahine!! Way to bounce back, ladies!!
15. spelled McKenna
but she did have a nice match. She told me that she had to reset her mind from Friday night and play with confidence.
12. think Cal Poly the better team. UCSB has relied on L. Ruddins so much. Freshman Froley didn’t have a great match, leaving Ruddins to carry a lot.
18. We’ll see next Sat. when Poly visits UCSB…
19. that we will
Super comeback match! Congrats to the players for rebounding so well – amazing especially for the freshmen. Congrats to RAM and staff for coming up with the winning strategy. It was great to see the ladies having fun again.
McKenna proved a lot of people wrong tonight. She hits with no fear. She needs to learn hire to hit high hands every single time. That is her money shot!
Was Surprised to see no Riley on the court tonight. Nice rebound by our Wahine, setting for the most part to the pins was much better! Passing was decent except for Helvig who really struggled passing for most of the night, she was being served non stop. This UCSB team looked like Hawaii did last night against Poly. Hoping they can knock off Cal Poly next week sat.
Overlap, as I recall
(1) means the outside right and left front row makes sure they are right and left of the middle hitter respectively.
(2) Similarly, back row right and left makes sure they are right and left of the middle back.
(3) Then, back row players makes sure they are position in back of the player in front of them.
(4) However, front left and right can be in back of middle back.
Looks like coach agreed with whoever suggested TW play front row.
I was on the golf course, got back to my car just in time to hear Tiff say something in Hawaiian ending in Aloha! Anyone know what all he said? I think Kanoa Leahy says the same thing at the end of the Wahine’s match when they win. Anyone know if the game is available for viewing on BigWestTV or is it just streaming and no archiving?
I was hoping the Wahine was going to at least win in 4, but SWEEP?!! Wow! Especially after last night and after all the trials and tribulations they’ve gone through in the past month!! GO BOWS!!!
25. Thought so too. Much depends on how the other two middles (Igiede and Williams) are doing as to when and where Westerberg is used. Westerberg, has played all three positions before (LS, RS, MB) in high school and club, and was OH Saturday, something Akana did against Cal Poly. Both players went middle to OH against Fullerton last week, with Westerberg ending at MB.
Neither Akana nor Wagoner played last night, a first for Wagoner.
26. https://bigwest.org/watch/default.aspx?Archive=5614&path=ucsb
Was looking at the box score and it shows that Hellvig had four kills in a row in the 1st set to make it 23-17.
26. yep. As I mentioned on my play-by-play above
4:28: Hanna Hellvig with 3 straight kills. Hawaii up 22-17. TO UCSB
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Didn’t add it to the main box above but my rewrite for Sunday’s paper mentions the four in a row. Coming out of the timeout her fourth made it 23-17.
Surprise or not?
Cal State Fullerton def. UC Irvine, 19-25, 25-17, 25-18, 30-28
Got to go to both games this weekend. Poly’s gym was loud, raucous, packed to capacity with their cheerleaders and band, and because seating was assigned, Hawaii fans were scattered about. Pretty awesome college sports atmosphere. UCSB felt like a home scrimmage with most of the UH fans sitting together behind the bench, and it looked like the team was vibing it.
Not that surprised that CSF beat UCI based on the games against UH. I think the loss to UCI was mainly the injury to Van Sickle and the team not being able to deal with that. When she left the match in the 3rd game they looked like a different team and it carried over to the match with CSF losing the first 2 games until the coaches made a desperation lineup change.
The article today mentioned that Ross was teammates with the two Ruddins at Aliso Niguel High School, so maybe she felt comfortable or motivated playing against them,
It also mentioned Kyra had a serving run of 6 pts in the 3rd set, including 2 Aces to get to 20-13 from 14-13.
They cut down the service errors to 7 compared to the CSUF game when they had 14
Just saw the replay and Ross had a monster night while playing so smart. Congrats!!
I think Ross have cemented herself in the starting lineup even when both JR and BVS come back.
UH will probably go back to that offense that got us that #11 ranking where the setters sub in for the middle. The only change would be that Ross will be in for Wagoner.
Riley really struggled offensively. With Ross being a more offensive minded hitter, I think that offense will be even more potent.
jR, BVS, Hanna and McKenna can all put up big number hitting and will be a handful.
Just a question, next year Bakersfield and San Diego joins the Big west. Does this mean UH will have 1 less tournament, since we’ll have 4 more games. Not sure how it works. We’ll see Trinity back in the Stan.
Don’t be surprised if UH’s adj. RPI rank rises to a top 10 position tomorrow. Despite losing a match, UH will benefit from the top 50 RPIs of both Poly and UCSB, including the bonus points for playing both.
36. Bakersfield’s RPI rank was 238 last week. UCSD is a Div II program. Won’t help UH’s RPI at all. Pre-season wins and rise of programs like Poly and UCSB will be key if UH hopes to host in the future.
37. Correction: bonus point for beating UCSB
30. Not so much a surprise when the bottom teams beat each other up…Kind of a surprise that UW went five with Oregon…but that’s the Pac-12!
Only major upsets in the Top 25 were unranked Georgia over #12 Kentucky and unranked Cal Poly over #19 Hawaii. Both ranked teams will drop but not out of the Top 25.
Dropping out of the Top 25 should be (IMAO) #22 Missouri (downed by Ole Miss, a team that started its season with 3 Ls followed by 13 consecutive Ws) and #23 Florida State.
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (19-1) of C-USA deserves to be among the Top 25 teams. Also 12-match-winning-streak San Diego Toreros (14-4) of WCC deserves a reappearance in the Top 25, but voters may want to wait till after its match against BYU this Friday.
As for Cal Poly, votes that went to others-receiving-votes UCSB and some votes that were in Hawaii’s pocket will shift to the Mustangs but I don’t think the Mustangs will reemerge in the Top 25 yet. What happens in the Top 25 won’t matter until the matchup between Cal Poly at UCSB this Saturday, which will bring a lot of clarity to those unsure if Cal Poly is the sure bet in its three-peat quest.
37. As predicted, UH is #9 in the latest official RPI rankings: https://extra.ncaa.org/solutions/rpi/Stats%20Library/Nitty%20Gritty_101319.pdf
Regional Rankings came out for 8 regions.
What does this mean, if it stays something like this for UH ?
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West (Top-10):
1. Hawai’i
2. Colorado State
3. UCSB
4. Cal Poly …
https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=51533
new thread up with RPI
41-42. Thanks. just getting back from paddling.