Volleyball today: Hawai’i sweeps, busy men’s Friday on tap; PVF’s Columbus, Orlando win
Third-ranked Hawai’i routed visiting independent Missouri S&T on Thursday to improve to 11-1. The Rainbow Warriors were the only ranked teams in action on day with three NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball matches.
In the Pro Volleyball Federation, Wednesday the Columbus Fury beat the Omaha Supernovas in four and Thursday the Orlando Valkyries won in four at the Vegas Thrill. Friday’s PVF schedule has the Grand Rapids Rise at the San Diego Mojo.
The coaching carousel spun at the women’s programs at Grand Canyon and Youngstown State.
Also, the NCAA beach season got underway Thursday and preseason No. 7 Stanford upset three-time defending-champion USC in Hawai’i. It was the first time Stanford beat USC and the Cardinal also knocked off No. 5 Loyola Marymount. We’ll have a recap of the first week of beach play and look ahead on Monday.
Friday men
Hawai’i leads four Big West teams in action as the Rainbow Warriors play host to Missouri S&T again, No. 1 Long Beach State is home for Lewis of the MIVA, No. 5 UC Irvine is home for the MPSF’s Concordia Irvine, and in a league match, No. 18 UC Santa Barbara is at No. 20 UC San Diego.
There are three MPSF matches when second-ranked and unbeaten Grand Canyon is at No. 10 USC, No. 4 UCLA plays at No. 9 BYU, and No 6 Stanford is at No. 11 Pepperdine.
There are four MIVA matches with No. 7 Ohio State at Queens, No. 12 Loyola Chicago at Lindenwood, No. 13 Ball State at Quincy and McKendree at Purdue Fort Wayne.
In the EIVA, the three conference matches have No. 9 Penn State home for NJIT, No. 14 Princeton at Harvard and No. 17 George Mason at Charleston.
There are three Conference Carolinas matches with Belmont Abbey at Lees-McRae, Emmanuel at Barton and Erskine at Mount Olive. King plays host to Xavier.
The NEC’s three matches have No. 20 Daemen home for Fairleigh Dickinson, LIU at D’Youville and Saint Francis (PA) at Sacred Heart.
The SIAC’s Morehouse plays Life and the ECC’s St. Thomas and Dominican square off.
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Thursday men
Hawai’i made Missouri S&T’s first Honolulu match a short one, hitting .492 and winning 25-12, 25-12, 25-20. Alaka’i Todd led UH with 15 kills and had one error in 21 attacks to go with an ace, two blocks and three digs. Keoni Thiim had nine kills with two errors in nine attacks, two assists, an ace, three digs and three blocks, one solo. Chaz Galloway had seven kills wiht one error in 10 swings, two blocks and two digs. Missouri S&T (8-7) hit .053 …
Georgetown of Kentucky swept the SIAC’s Central State, which fell to 0-15, and Barton (6-4) of Conference Carolinas swept Warner.
Pro Volleyball Federation
The Columbus Fury (1-2) got the first win in franchise history, 25-12, 25-21, 23-25, 25-23 over the Omaha Supernovas (4-3). Reagan Cooper led the Fury with 22 kills, 11 digs and eight blocks, two solo. Asjia O’Neal added 15 kills, three digs and seven blocks, four solo, Brooke Nuneviller had 13 kills for Omaha and 16 digs.
Orlando improved to 2-3 with its 25-23, 25-18, 20-25, 30-28 victory at Vegas (2-2). Jill Gillen had 21 kills and five block assists and Adora Anae 18 kills and three blocks, two solo. Khat Bell led the Thrill with 22 kills, two aces and four blocks, three solo.
Coaching carousel
Grand Canyon hired Kendra Potts to replace Tim Nollan, who took the job at Northwestern. She’s been at Division II West Texas A&M. Read the GCU news release here.
Aline Scott resigned from Youngstown State after six seasons. Last year, the Penguins finished 9-20, 4-14 in the Horizon League.
LOVB inkings
League One Volleyball, which starts its pro league in 2025, has signed Danielle Cuttino, Madi Kingdon Rishel, Jaali Winters and Tamaki Matsui.
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