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Post by sponge13 on Apr 9, 2004 23:17:52 GMT -5
Pacific defeats USC 30-24, 30-25, 30-25 to keep its postseason hopes alive.
Rodgers 21 kills on 22 attacks for Pacific without an error (.955 hitting percentage). He added three blocks. Dauburs turns in 18 kills (.412), two aces, one block solo and three block assists. Zodrow adds 11 kills for the Tigers. Pacific hits .430 as a team.
USC's McKniff has team-high 11 kills (.500) with both a solo and assist block. Bailley contributes 10 kills in the loss. Trojans hit .238 as a team.
Both teams 4-15 in the MPSF.
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Post by OC24 on Apr 10, 2004 0:52:55 GMT -5
.955 on 22 attacks? tell me that's not POW status right there...
It would seem that USC's playoff hopes are gone since their remaining schedule is Stanford, BYU, BYU...
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Post by midwestfan on Apr 10, 2004 0:57:23 GMT -5
Has that been done before?
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Post by OC24 on Apr 10, 2004 1:14:27 GMT -5
dunno for sure, but it easily beats the earlier MPSF season high of:
.882, Andy Hein, PEP at UCSD, 3/6
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Post by sponge13 on Apr 10, 2004 1:17:03 GMT -5
.955 on 22 attacks? tell me that's not POW status right there... It would seem that USC's playoff hopes are gone since their remaining schedule is Stanford, BYU, BYU... Let's see how he does against Pepperdine before proclaiming POW on him. He is off to a good start. |
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Post by Wallyball on Apr 10, 2004 2:00:49 GMT -5
dunno for sure, but it easily beats the earlier MPSF season high of: .882, Andy Hein, PEP at UCSD, 3/6 Didn't Maulia LaBarre of UH hit 1.000 against Stanford with 11 kills in 11 swings this season? THAT'S the MPSF season high. |
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Post by OC24 on Apr 10, 2004 2:02:16 GMT -5
well if it is it's not tallied on the MPSF website.. that's where i got the andy hein stat from. Maybe there is a minimum attack requirement that labarre didn't reach (15 maybe?)
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Post by vbfan4life on Apr 10, 2004 2:13:48 GMT -5
April 9, 2004
BEHIND RODGERS, TIGERS KEEP PLAYOFF HOPES ALIVE WITH SWEEP OF NO. 15 USC
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The Pacific Tigers men’s volleyball team kept their MPSF playoff hopes alive with a three game sweep of No. 15 USC on Friday, April 9, at the Alex G. Spanos Center. With the win the Tigers improve to 8-18 overall and 4-15 in the MPSF while the Trojans drop to 6-20 overall and 4-15 in conference play.
Game scores for the match were: 30-24, 30-25, 30-25.
Little went wrong for the Tigers as they attempted to right the ship late in the season in hopes of capturing the eighth and final spot in the MPSF tournament. On top of a good team performance, the Tigers got one of the greatest individual performances in program history as senior Sean Rodgers (Fresno, Calif.) had the match of his career, going 21-of-22 and finishing the night with no errors and a .955 hitting percentage. For good measure and to add a little depth to his game, Rodgers also tallied three blocks defensively for Pacific.
The Tigers flew out of the gates in game one as they opened up the match with a 6-2 run that forced the Trojans to burn their first timeout. Pacific would open up a five point lead at 20-15 and never look back finishing off the game on the first of three game winning kills by Rodgers.
Pacific outhit the Trojans .432-to-.176 in the game while also outblocking (4.0-to-3.0) and outdigging (12-to-8) USC.
Game two started a little slower for the Tigers as they were not able to jump out to a substantial lead at the beginning and even found themselves down for the first time in the match, 13-11. The Tigers responded behind the serving of junior Nils Dauburs (Riga, Latvia) who produced two aces 4-0 run to regain the lead. The Trojans made a comeback to bring the lead down to one at 21-20 but fell quickly back down by four as Dauburs produced back-to-back kills.
The Tigers tried to blow out the Trojans in game three as they were able to take a 26-18 lead late, but faltered for the first time in the game, allowing USC to go on a 5-0 run to knock the lead down to three at 26-23. The Tigers kept their poise, and even waived off their coach from calling a timeout in order to show that they were in control, and took the game with a 4-2 run, capped off by Rodger’s 21st kill of the match.
Overall the Tigers outplayed the Trojans in every statistical category, with the biggest discrepancy in the team’s hitting percentages (.430-to-.238). The Tigers never hit under .425 in any of the three games while attacking 107 times. Three Tigers reached double digits in kills with Rodgers (21), Dauburs (18) and junior Brian Zodrow (Kaneohe, Hawaii) (11). Freshman Mitch Hazelett (Roanoke, Ind.) had a career-high, 55 assists in the game while also producing seven digs. Junior Mike Gawlik (Naperville, Ill.) had a match-high 12 digs, while Dauburs led the team with 12 blocks.
The Trojans were led by Chris McKniff who had 11 kills on the night while Pedro Leal produced three blocks.
The Tigers will be back in action tomorrow, April 10, as they take on the No. 4 Pepperdine Waves at the Alex G. Spanos Center. Match time is scheduled for 7:00 pm.
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