Hawaii women’s volleyball: Hawaii 3, Beach 1, T25 & BWC scores
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Freshman hitter Hanna Hellvig tied her career-high with 17 kills and No. 11 Hawaii won its Big West opener, turning back Long Beach State 25-16, 21-25, 25-21, 25-16 today in Long Beach, Calif.
It was the sixth straight victory over The Beach for the Rainbow Wahine (11-1, 1-0) who got a double-double from senior setter Norene Iosia (20 assists-15 digs), her fifth this season and 49th for her career. Iosia also took over 10th place on the UH career list, her two aces tonight giving her 107.
It was the sixth consecutive loss for Long Beach State (3-11, 0-2) which is 0-4 at home this season. Sophomore hitter Kashauna Williams led The Beach with 14 kills. Senior libero Hailey Harward had 16 digs.
Hawaii finished with 10 blocks, its eighth match in double digits. Freshman middle Tiffany Westerberg was in on four of the blocks.
Hawaii has not dropped a conference opener since 1994. The Wahine conclude their 12-day road trip Saturday at Cal State Northridge (5-8, 0-1).
Set 4: UH wins 25-21
6:15: Brooke Van Sickle ends it
6:10: UH was ups 21-12. Beach pulls to 21-15 on two UH hitting errors. TO UH
6:07: Call reversed. UH leading 20-12.
6:06: Hawaii challenging whether Hanna Hellvig’s attack landed in. If it stands, Beach has closed to 19-13
6:20: Ace by Riley Wagoner gives UH a 17-9 lead. TO Beach.
5:51: Hanna Hellvig with the ace. UH up 4-1. TO Beach
Set 3 Hawaii wins 25-21
5:44: Kill by Hanna Hellvig ends it.
5:41: Tiffany Westerberg blocked, no cover. Beach closes to 23-21. TO UH
5:37: Hanna Helvig and Tiffany Westerberg in on UH’s seventh block. UH up 21-18. TO Beach
5:34: Hanna Hellvig with her 11th kill. UH up 19-18. TO Beach
5:31: Challenge good. UH trailing 17-16.
5:29: McKenna Ross hits wide. Hawaii challenging a touch. If call stands, UH trailing 18-15
5:26: Weird. they missed the TTO. Hanna Hellvig aced. Beach up 16-14 at the delayed TTO.
5:18: Call reversed. It’s 9-6.
5:17: UH up at 10-5 Beach challenging a touch on the attack
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Set 2: Beach wins 25-21
5:03: Riley Wagoner hits long, ties the match at 1-1
5:00: Two kills by Tiffany Westerberg has Hawaii closing to 23-21. TO Beach
4:57: Hawaii stuck in a bad rotation. It was 18-18. It is now 23-18. TO UH. Tiffany Westerberg in for Amber Igiede.
4:53: Hanna Hellvig blocked, Beach up 20-18. TO UH
4:47: Beach up 15-13 at the TTO
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Set 1 Hawaii wins 25-16
4:30: Hawaii needs 4 swings to end it. get it on a service error by Dylan Dela Cruz.
4:23: Riley Wagoner blocks Carly Aigner-Swesey. UH up 19-9. TO Beach
4:15: Technical difficulties they couldn’t review it. UH up 9-3
4:13: Beach challenging whether UH was in net on an attempt by Brooke Van Sickle
4:08: Hawaii up 5-1. TO Beach
same starters for Hawaii: Hanna Hellvig, Brooke Van Sickle, Amber Igiede, Riley Wagoner, McKenna Ross, Norene Iosia, Rika Okino.
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No. 11 Hawaii (10-1, 0-0) at Long Beach State (3-10, 0-1), 4 p.m. HST Friday
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UC Santa Barbara def. UC Irvine, 25-19, 25-11, 25-11
Cal Poly def. CSU Fullerton, 25-14, 25-21, 25-15
Top 25
No. 3 Nebraska def No. 20 Illinois, 25-22, 25-27, 26-28, 25-22, 15-10
No. 7 Minnesota def. Indiana, 25-11, 25-10, 25-11
No. 10 Marquette def. Seton Hall, 25-19, 25-17, 25-13
No. 12 Florida def. vs. Auburn, 25-12, 25-18, 25-12
No. 13 Wisconsin def. No. 15 Purdue, 25-22, 29-27, 25-15
No. 14 Creighton def. vs. Villanova, 25-16, 25-16, 25-19
No. 16 Kentucky def. Mississippi State, 25-17, 25-11, 21-25, 25-23
No. 22 Rice def. UTEP, 25-20, 25-15, 25-18
No. 23 Florida State def. Duke, 27-25, 25-21, 23-25, 25-15
I can tell already I’m not going to be able to last the first set listening to this TV play by play announcer
1. Listen to Tiff on the radio, mo better.
1-2. Radio sounds good But i’m biased.
live updates in main box
2. 3.
Tiff is always better. I was trying to sync the stream with radio but radio is couple plays ahead
5. and live stats about a play ahead of radio
Yikes, talk about a major letdown after set 1. Hitting % is not looking good, somebody on the outside needs to step it up…
UCSB and Cal Poly leading 2-0 according to Tiff.
Where’s the Wahine block?
Not the match I was anticipating vs a 3-10 Long Beach team
8. SB wins in 3. check updated scores
9. they have 7
10. Beach is home. Hawaii on road 8 days so far.
Cal Poly sweep so they 2-0 with USCB. Wahine struggling.
Cal Poly 25-14, 25-21, 25-15.
updated scores above
Pow! Hanna!!!
15. A new sign for the Aunties.,,along with Hanna You!!
Hanna Hou. If it comes out “You” again it is spell check.
Hawaii will win or lose by the Pass(ing). Good Passing with mediocre hitters beats bad Passing with great hitters every time.
I heard Tiff use a phrase for Amber that I really like when they were playing Missouri. I think it was “Bayou Bomber” or “Bayou Blaster”. I think I’ll talk to the Aunties about making a new sign for Amber instead of “Ramber”. I love their signs. The cutest one is “U Rika” and “Holey Moley Jolie”.
By the way, any news on Jolie’s condition?
GO BOWS!!
Looking for a cleaner game @CSUN , gm2, wasn’t as sharp and could have been a shorter game.
Had a chance to watch the match at the Pyramid. Nice win but RAM had to really push the wahine in set 2 and 3. Glad they responded. The Pyramid had a strong vocal pro wahine crowd and it was fun to cut loose the “let’s go bows” with so many other fellow wahine fans.
Hanna was good and Tiffany provided a spark.
1. I thought the play by play announcer, Matt Brown, and the color person, Brian Gimmillaro, were good and did research on the teams. They were generous in praise of the Wahine and pointed out when both teams weren’t playing well, etc. Brown is an up- and- coming announcer and was the radio play -by- play announcer of LB men’s team last season.
Another great team effort. But they are capable of playing at a much higher level.
Hellvig is doing a great job of helping to provide leadership in JR’s absence. Ross doing great job as well.
Noticed Hellvig has her left hand wrapped, hope she is alright. She’s been taking a lot of swings, getting a lot of kills and blocks. Hard to believe she is just a freshman, her skills are at a different level. Imho, she just might have AA in her future.
Final thought, team if fortunate to have two great setters. They deserve recognition for the success of going 11-1 against some great teams.
This LBSU team is a complete mess; Hawaii at times looked similar! CSUN has a lot of spunk and if Hawaii isn’t on its game could be prime for an upset…
Why does the font of comments go all white on this blog?
24. Thank you for asking! I thought the disappearance of all the text was just happening to me!
Tiffany should get a start tonight. Her steady playing, plus her step out, deserve her being a starter.
Text on the vlog keeps disappearing after one or two minutes. I have to highlight the text with the mouse or reload the page. Thought it was just me too.
26 Agree. Wish to see Tiffany at left OH/blocker in front starting line-up. Leaving Amber or Tiffany or Skyler at bench is waste of blocking resources. Better to fix it now rather than getting stung by Santa Babara / CalPoly, and be sorry later.
The text going white…I thought it was disappearing. Been going on for 3-4 weeks. Started on my laptop, and now it’s happening on my iPhone.
The second and third sets were rough, but out girls pulled it off, in the pyramid. More senior ladden teams have struggled to play in the pyramid, so its a good win, regardless of the beaches record.
This team is still SO good, and with Jolie they will be even better
Had no problem with Matt Brown and Brian Gimmillaro. Coach Gimmillaro provide great insite and is very generous with praise for the wahines. Hope Jolie is ready for our next home match. Sprain ankles can take awhile to heal. Our team is so young, so we better expect every match to be tough. Who would of thought 11-1 at this point.
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I’ll admit the announcers got better as the match started but that pre game stuff was awkward. Their chemistry seemed so off and there were a lot of awkward pauses and seemed like it was his first day on the job. Maybe it was a technical or some sort of surrounding area issue of some kind because they seemed fine after
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new thread up for Saturday.
As for the text disappearing … this is the first anyone has mentioned it.
Not seeing it on my end. Don’t know what to tell you.
As for “fixing” the problem. Let’s remember that this season is only in its fifth week. They are still trying to figure things out.
IMHO they are vulnerable in at least one rotation when Wagoner and Van Sickle/Ross in the front row.
Agree that one move would be to have Westerberg go to OH and keeping Igiede and Williams at MB. But the ability of Westerberg to come in and bring a new look at middle is valuable.
From what has been said, they will be looking to have Akana transition to OH in spring.