NCAA Ladies
November 3, 2024
Let’s go Peay!
There have been no upsets Saturday in NCAA Division I volleyball, however streaks continued and an extended one wsa damaged, and there have been some spectacular numbers put up across the nation.
The Jackrabbits are 22-0: South Dakota State, the one staff left unbeaten in NCAA Division I volleyball, swept at Kansas Metropolis in The Summit League.
The Govs are 2-22: Austin Peay broke its 21-match dropping streak with a 25-19, 19-25, 26-28, 27-25, 15-12 ASUN victory over visiting Bellarmine to present interim head coach Connor Crawford a victory in his second match on the helm after the college fired Taylor Mott final week. It was additionally senior evening and the Govs’ last dwelling match.
Lexie Almodovar and No. 15 Dayton retains rolling within the Atlantic 10: She had 27 kills, 13 digs and a solo block within the Flyers’ four-set win at George Mason because the Flyers gained their sixteenth match in a row.
There was, in fact, a reverse sweep, as UIC gained a wild one at Missouri State within the Missouri Valley, 25-27, 24-26, 25-13, 25-15, 15-8.
Strains of the day:
In Utah Tech’s five-set WAC win over visiting Utah Valley, Kennedi Knudsen had a program-record 34 kills, hit .355, and had two assists, 4 aces, seven digs and two blocks.
Evansville gained its Missouri Valley Convention match in 5 towards visiting Bradley and NCAA kills chief Giulia Cardona went off once more, this time for 31 kills, an help, 10 digs and two blocks.
James Madison misplaced to visiting South Alabama in 4 within the Solar Belt, however Bre Reid had 30 kills, hit .328, and had two assists, two aces, 17 digs and a solo block.
In an OVC sweep at Little Rock, Keyana Cruise of Western Illinois had 23 kills, hit .377, and had an help, 4 aces and 25 digs.
Jayln Stout, the incomparable setter for Coastal Carolina, had 16 kills in a four-set Solar Belt win over visiting Georgia Southern, hitting .400, and had 17 assists and 19 digs. It’s her fifteenth triple-double of the season, breaking the document of 14 she set final 12 months as a freshman.
Loyola Chicago misplaced its males’s volleyball coach to UCLA when John Hawks went again to Los Angeles. Talking of going again, Loyola re-hired Shane Davis, who went to teach the Northwestern girls after successful back-to-back NCAA males’s titles at Loyola.
That and AVP and Athletes Limitless updates comply with on this version of Volleyball At present:
NCAA, AVP, AU Volleyball Sunday
NCAA: Two of the ACC’s eight matches pit two ranked groups when VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 6 Stanford goes to Florida State and AVCA No. 16 Georgia Tech goes to No. 25 North Carolina. High-ranked Pittsburgh is at Virginia Tech, No. 11 SMU is at Virginia, Miami is dwelling for Cal, Clemson is at Duke, Boston School is at NC State and Syracuse is at Wake Forest.
The 5 Large Ten matches present No. 2 Nebraska at Northwestern, No. 7 Wisconsin at Illinois, No. 14 Minnesota at Michigan, No. 21 USC dwelling for Washington and Ohio State at Michigan State.
There are seven SEC matches, together with No. 9 Texas dwelling for Oklahoma, No. 16 Kentucky at Georgia, No. 24 Florida dwelling for Ole Miss, Tennessee at South Carolina, Alabama at LSU, Mississippi State at Texas A&M and Auburn at Arkansas.
Fifth-ranked Creighton, which has gained 13 in a row, performs host to Villanova within the Large East, whereas Marquette, a recreation behind the Bluehays, is dwelling for St. John’s.
No. 15 Dayton is again at George Mason within the Atlantic 10.
AVP LEAGUE: The inaugural enterprise finishes its eight-week common season Sunday. Larry Hamel’s recap of Saturday’s motion and a glance forward follows.
ATHLETES UNLIMITED: AU is again at it Sunday evening with the next-to-last matches of the season.
Crew (Dani) Drews performs Crew (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejia at 7 p.m. Jap, adopted by Crew (Madi) Kingdon Rishel vs. Crew (Brittany) Abercrombie. Each may be seen on ESPNU.
In a five-week competitors that rewards the person winner, all of it comes all the way down to Abercrombie (3,984 factors) and De La Cruz (3,602), with Kingdon Rishel (3,065) holding a slim probability to catch them.
The perfect of NCAA volleyball Saturday
No. 13 Arizona State (22-2, 10-1 Large 12) gained the one match between ranked groups, a 25-19, 25-19, 25-18 sweep at No. 22 Utah (17-5, 7-4). Six Solar Devils had 5 or extra kills. Eighth-ranked Kansas 20-1, 11-0) swept visiting West Virginia (8-14, 2-9) for its eleventh win a row. The Jayhawks hit .350 as Ayah Elnady led with 14 kills, hitting .323, to go together with an ace and 13 digs. Rhian Swanson had eight kills with no errors in 19 swings, two digs and 4 blocks. No. 20 BYU (14-7, 7-4 swept visiting Arizona (13-8, 2-8) as Claire Little had 20 kills, hit .359, and had 9 digs. And Texas Tech (12-11, 4-7) swept visiting UCF (8-11, 1-8) as Mia Wesley had 14 kills, two assists and 12 digs …
All three Large Ten matches had been sweeps. No. 10 Purdue (18-5, 9-3) hit .424 and gained at Rutgers (5-18, 0-12) as each Chloe Cicoine (23 assaults) and Eva Hudson (32) had 14 kills and one error. No. 12 Oregon (17-4, 9-3) hit .380 and beat visiting UCLA (10-11, 4-8) as Michelle Ohwobete had 15 kills with one error in 32 assaults and added three aces, three digs and two blocks, and Onye Ofoegbu had 11 kills with one error in 13 assaults and three blocks, one solo. And Indiana (12-10, 5-7) swept at Maryland (10-13, 1-11) as Avry Tatum had 13 kills, an help, three aces, two digs and a block …
Louisville (29-3, 11-1 ACC) gained 25-12, 25-16, 25-12 at Notre Dame (9-12, 2-10). The Cardinals obtained 12 kills from Charitie Luper, who hit .417 and had an ace, a block and 7 digs. Notre Dame hit .000 …
South Dakota State swept 25-21, 25-15, 25-20 at Kansas Metropolis and has this system’s most victories since successful 25 in 2007. Sylvie Zgonc had 16 kills, hit .314, and had an ace, a solo block and eight digs. Additionally within the Summit, South Dakota swept Oral Roberts and Kylen Sealock had 19 kills, a dig and a block …
Hawai’i (15-7, 9-3) moved right into a first-place Large West tie with UC Davis (14-7, 9-3) and so they lead three groups — Cal Poly, UC Irvine and UC San Diego — by one recreation. Hawai’i beat visiting Cal Poly in 4 as Caylen Alexander had 20 kills, as help, an ace, eight digs and two blocks. UC Davis misplaced in 5 at Lengthy Seaside State, which is a recreation again of the pack. Madi Maxwell led the Seaside with 17 kills, an help, an ace, 12 digs and 7 blocks. Jade Gentle of UC Davis had 20 kills, hit .400, and had three aces, 12 digs and a solo block. In UC Irvine’s four-set win at CSUN, Kendra McDonald had 20 kills with one error in 33 assaults to hit .576 to go together with seven digs. UC San Diego swept visiting UC Riverside as Kylie Pries had 13 kills with one error in 43 assaults, three aces, six digs and a block. And CSU Bakersfield beat Cal State Fullerton in 4 and Sydney Dunning had 18 kills with one error in 28 swings to hit .515 and added 4 aces and 7 digs … Bucknell (19-2, 11-1) maintained it one-game lead within the Patriot League over idle Colgate with a sweep of visiting third-place American (20-5, 10-3) … Mercer (20-4, 10-1) gained in 4 at ETSU to constructed its result in a recreation within the loss column over idle Wofford within the SoCon. Skyler Bumpers had eight kills, hit .375, and had three aces and 4 blocks. Additionally within the SoCon, Sophie Childs had 21 kills in The Citadel’s sweep of UNC Greensboro as she hit .374 and had an ace and three blocks …
Convention USA-leading Western Kentucky (21-6, 14-0) swept visiting NM State for its seventeenth win in a row. WKU gained 25-23, 25-23, 26-24, getting back from being down 19-10 within the third. Additionally in C-USA, Jacksonville State beat visiting FIU in 4 as Kayla Williams had 23 kills, hitting .408 with 5 aces, seven digs and two blocks …
Southeastern Louisiana (20-4, 12-0) gained its twentieth match in a row, however needed to battle to 25-19, 20-25, 25-19, 18-25, 15-6 Southland Convention victory over second-place Stephen F. Austin (18-7, 10-2). Kyra McKelvey had 21 kills with two errors in 29 assaults to hit .655 to go together with a block …
UT Arlington is one other staff on a giant successful streak. The Mavs beat visiting California Baptist in 4 to enhance to 21-2, 11-0 within the WAC with their twelfth victory in a row. Dutch freshman Sjakkie Donkers (all-name staff) had 21 kills, hit .474 and had 5 assists, 10 digs and three blocks …
Loyola Marymount (18-4, 10-1) gained in 5 at San Diego (13-8, 8-3) to take care of its one-game lead within the West Coast Convention as six Lions had eight or extra kills. Pepperdine (12-8, 9-1) stayed a half recreation again with a sweep of visiting Washington State (12-8, 7-4) as Grace Chillingworth had 16 kills with one error in 29 assaults to hit .517 to go together with 9 digs and an help. Pacific misplaced to visiting San Francisco in 5, however Alexa Edwards had 24 kills, an ace, 20 digs and three blocks, one solo …
Horizon-leading Wright State swept visiting Robert Morris as Mya Ayro had 13 kills, hit .500, and had 4 digs and three blocks. Additionally within the HL, Inexperienced Bay beat Northern Kentucky in 5 as Cora Behnke had 23 kills, two digs and a block … Southeast Missouri’s lead over idle Lindenwood within the Ohio Valley was lower to a recreation within the loss column when the Redhawks misplaced in 4 to visiting Tennessee Tech regardless of Lucy Arndt getting 17 kills with one error in 38 assaults to hit .421 with two assists, an ace and 13 digs. Additionally within the OVC, Tennessee State misplaced in 5 to UT Martin however Jayla Holcombe had 24 kills, hit .370 and had six digs and 4 blocks. Additionally within the SLC, Texas A&M-Commerce gained in 4 at Nicholls and Jade Smith had 30 digs, 5 assists and an ace, and in UIW’s five-set win over visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Audrey Patton had 30 digs and 111 assists …
Yale rebuilt its Ivy League result in 1.5 video games with a four-set win over visiting Penn as Betsy Goodenow had 15 kills with one error in 33 swings to hit .424 and added an help, 10 digs and three blocks … Fairfield improved to 15-10, 13-0 within the MAAC, with a sweep at Merrimack. Svenja Rodenbusch had 14 kills, hit .400, and had an help, seven digs and two blocks … Bowling Inexperienced maintained its one-game lead within the MAC with a sweep at Miami as Lauryn Hovey had 12 kills, hit .450, and had three aces, eight digs and three blocks … Northern Iowa saved its one-game lead over Drake in the Missouri Valley because the Panthers gained in 4 at Belmont and Drake gained in 4 at Murray State. Drake’s Megan White had 23 kills and Macy Daufeldt had 22 …
Central Arkansas beat Jacksonville in 4 and Laci Bohannan had 23 kills within the ASUN victory, hitting .372 with an help, 10 digs and a block … Dylan Maberry had 13 kills with no errors in 28 assaults to hit .464 in Excessive Level’s Large South sweep of Gardner-Webb to go together with an ace and 5 digs … Additionally within the Large South, Ali Jansen had 23 kills for USC Upstate in a four-set win over Charleston Southern. She hit .358 and had an help, three digs and three blocks … Colorado State saved its half-game lead within the Mountain West over San Jose State because the Rams swept visiting San Diego State and SJSU beat visiting New Mexico in 4. San Jose State’s Nayell Ti’a had 16 kills, an help, an ace, 10 digs and three blocks, one solo …
Within the Solar Belt, App State has quietly taken the lead within the East Division at 1407, 8-2, whereas South Alabama (14-8, 8-2) is tied with Arkansas State (20-4, 8-2) atop the West. App State gained in 5 at Georgia State as Maya Winterhoff had 20 kills, hit .390 and had two assists, an ace, a dig and 5 blocks, one solo. Additionally within the SBC, Texas State swept Southern Miss and setter Ryann Torres had seven kills with one error in eight tries, 38 assists, two aces, seven digs and a block …
In LIU’s four-set NEC win at Mercyhurst, Camelia Melendez had 18 kills, hit .348, and had 5 aces and 6 digs …
Charleston and Hofstra are up by a half recreation within the CAA after Hofstra swept William & Mary and Charleston did the identical to visiting Hampton, which fell to 0-26 after the Pirates hit minus .021.
Shane Davis returns to Loyola Chicago
Loyola College Chicago is proud to announce the return of former Rambler student-athlete and coach Shane Davis as the brand new chief of the lads’s volleyball program. Davis, who performed for the Maroon and Gold from 2000-2003 and served as head males’s volleyball coach from 2004-2015, returns to the bench the place he led the Ramblers to back-to-back nationwide titles in 2014 and 2015.
Davis returns to Rogers Park for his twenty first all-time season as a head coach and his thirteenth at Loyola, the place he stays the winningest coach in program historical past with a 265-88 (.751) document.
The four-time Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Affiliation (MIVA) Coach of the Yr and the 2014 AVCA Coach of the Yr piloted the Ramblers to a few straight NCAA Ultimate 4 appearances between 2013 and 2015, clinching two consecutive nationwide championships in ’14 and ’15.
Throughout his earlier tenure at Loyola from 2003 to 2015, Davis produced 43 All-MIVA picks, 4 of whom had been MIVA Gamers of the Yr, and 12 All-People, together with two Olympic bronze medalists. Thomas Jaeschke (’15) and Jeff Jendryk (’18) earned bronze within the Paris 2024 Olympics; Jaeschke beforehand gained bronze within the 2016 Olympics. Jaeschke was named the 2015 AVCA Nationwide Participant of the Yr whereas Jendryk earned the 2015 AVCA Newcomer of the Yr.
AVP League heads into last regular-season day
Miles Partain and Andy Benesh (7-0) of the Dallas Dream topped fellow USA Olympians Chase Budinger and Miles Evans (3-4) of the San Diego Smash 15-12, 16-14 on Saturday evening on the Comerica Heart in Frisco, Texas. Their sweep clinched a spot within the AVP League semifinals subsequent weekend for the Dream, giving the staff a 9-5 document, whereas dropping the Smash to 6-8.
The Smash remained alive within the hunt for the final playoff spot, buoyed by a 12-15, 15-11, 16-14 victory by Geena Urango and Toni Rodriguez (3-4) over the Dream’s Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg (2-5).
The Austin Aces (7-7) and LA Launch (5-9) cut up their matches through the opening session of the League’s last regular-season weekend. USA Olympians Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss (4-3) of the Aces held off Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles (3-4) 12-15, 15-12, 15-12, and the Launch’s Tim Bomgren and Troy Area (2-5) rallied to defeat Paul Lotman and Billy Allen (3-4) 7-15, 15-13, 15-9.
On Sunday afternoon, the Launch will play the Smash (streamed stay on the Bally Stay app at 2 p.m. Jap) and the Dream will meet the Aces (televised solely on tape delay by the CBS Sports activities Community cable channel from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m.). The Aces are greatest positioned to maneuver on to the semifinals, however situations may play out that might see the Smash or Launch advance.
