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Post by bownlovingfreak on Sept 10, 2011 16:15:40 GMT -5
Attended some matches at Endicott College up in Beverly, Massachusetts. I was hoping to catch UMass Boston, but of course they didn't play.
I watched Bowdoin defeat Plymouth State. Bowdoin CRUSHED them. Plymouth State's libero got injured or something towards the end and the team looked incredibly drained and gave up. To be honest, their attitudes were poor overall. Their coach seemed complacent.
I also watched Plymouth State vs St Marys of Minnesota. Only caught the last two sets. Both teams played with a lot of intensity. St Marys won in the 5th set, 15-13. Sad loss for Plymouth State.
Caught Schreiner plays Williams. Williams was fantastic. They have a strange setter who completely underestimated me.
I left during the Endicott vs Williams game. Williams was BY far the superior team. Endicott has a large setter who had very accurate sets. Bowdoin vs St Marys was just starting.
The teams were Endicott Williams St Marys UMass Boston Schreiner Middlebury Salve Regina Plymouth St Bowdoin
Bowdoin looked like a D1 team. Extremely tall but poor ball control. Williams was the best team I saw. Only team with a foreigner, from the Netherlands. Schreiner had a HUGE roster.
Liked watching these teams. Been a while since I've seen D3 volleyball and was shocked at how good they were. The girls were shorter and didn't run as intricate of plays as D1 (x plays, slides). Connections in the middle were weakish. Most sets went outside overall.
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Post by tmb on Sept 11, 2011 15:24:20 GMT -5
In other New England action, Tufts got off to a 3-0 start at the Brandeis Tourney and Springfield claimed the Johnson and Wales title and is 8-0 to start the season. MIT traveled to Vassar and went undefeated to win their second title and improve to 8-0 as well.
It looks like Middlebury was missing Handel so it will help when they get her back and Williams and Bowdoin both seem solid. Umass rolled through the weekend at EC as well. BLF they may have been playing upstairs when you were there. At JWU, Amherst seemed to do well outside of the NCAA rematch with Springfield and Conn opened 3-1 as well with their loss to Springfield.
Looks like conf play begins next week for NEWMAC and NESCAC schools and should be interesting to see if Endicott is able to compete at all with #15,13 and 2 in the country at Colorado College next weekend.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 12, 2011 6:27:29 GMT -5
In other New England action, Tufts got off to a 3-0 start at the Brandeis Tourney and Springfield claimed the Johnson and Wales title and is 8-0 to start the season. MIT traveled to Vassar and went undefeated to win their second title and improve to 8-0 as well. RichKern.com shows them at 7-1, having lost to WPI. Probably a typo, but come on, teams, if you want anyone to care about you, you need to care about yourself!
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Post by superfan1 on Sept 12, 2011 9:49:07 GMT -5
Handel (Middlebury) is currently out with a foot/leg injury. Middlebury plays against Norwich on Wed and hopefully Handel is back in for the panthers.
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Post by ned3head on Sept 13, 2011 10:48:16 GMT -5
#2 Wash U- St. Louis' next 7 matches feature 6 ranked opponents- #8 Carthage, #20 Wisconsin-Whitewater, #6 Christopher Newport, #9 Juniata, #13 Colorado College and #15 Concordia College-Moorehead. To say that is a tough road to travel in 8 days is an understatement. Update on this section of the schedule to date: All 3-0 sweeps over ranked competition (#8 Carthage, #20 Wisconsin-Whitewater, #6 Christopher Newport). Against Carthage- scores were 13,21,20. Wisconsin- 18,20,11 and Christopher Newport- 17, 23, 20. Seems like they are ROLLING along.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 13, 2011 10:57:10 GMT -5
Yeah, WashU has been outstanding so far. But it should be noted that Wittenberg, St Toms, and Calvin have also had great starts to the season. Calvin plays Wittenberg this weekend. Really exciting matchup!
Meanwhile, WashU plays CSP this weekend (awesome match - the top of D3 vs the top of D2). After that Juniata will be a big step back!
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Post by noreaster on Sept 13, 2011 12:32:01 GMT -5
When will the first pablo ranking come out for D3? There have been a lot of upsets using last year's numbers.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 13, 2011 12:37:50 GMT -5
When will the first pablo ranking come out for D3? There have been a lot of upsets using last year's numbers. Maybe next week. D3 started about a week later than the other divisions, so I held off this week.
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Post by mnvb56 on Sept 13, 2011 12:44:31 GMT -5
Yeah, WashU has been outstanding so far. But it should be noted that Wittenberg, St Toms, and Calvin have also had great starts to the season. Calvin plays Wittenberg this weekend. Really exciting matchup! Meanwhile, WashU plays CSP this weekend (awesome match - the top of D3 vs the top of D2). After that Juniata will be a big step back! You got me all excited there and I went to see if it was a home game for CSP! But it looks like WashU is playing Concordia- Moorhead this weekend at Colorado College, not Condordia-St. Paul. But it would have been a fun match to watch!
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Post by NotKingOfAnything on Sept 13, 2011 12:46:56 GMT -5
Meanwhile, WashU plays CSP this weekend (awesome match - the top of D3 vs the top of D2). After that Juniata will be a big step back! That's Concordia Moorhead MN, a D3 MIAC school, not the D2 team from St Paul.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 13, 2011 12:54:47 GMT -5
Meanwhile, WashU plays CSP this weekend (awesome match - the top of D3 vs the top of D2). After that Juniata will be a big step back! That's Concordia Moorhead MN, a D3 MIAC school, not the D2 team from St Paul. That's an error at richkern.com, then.
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Post by tmb on Sept 13, 2011 14:35:53 GMT -5
1 Calvin (22) 598 7-0 1 2 Washington-St. Louis (2) 576 10-0 2 3 Wittenberg 554 6-0 3 4 Emory 526 7-1 4 5 Eastern 486 7-1 5 6 Christopher Newport 466 7-2 6 7 St. Thomas (Minn.) 454 8-0 7 8 Carthage 397 6-2 8 9 Juniata 385 4-2 9 10 Southwestern (Texas) 364 7-0 14 11 Heidelberg 355 7-1 11 12 Colorado College 331 8-0 13 13 Hope 318 6-0 12 14 Cal Lutheran 294 6-2 10 15 Concordia (Minn.) 280 8-1 15 16 Puget Sound 225 8-0 18 17 Wisconsin-Platteville 181 5-3 19 18 Chicago 172 9-0 23 19 UMass-Boston 145 4-2 22 20 Pacific Lutheran 107 7-1 NR 21 SUNY Cortland 95 8-0 NR 22 Wisconsin-Whitewater 87 5-3 20 23 Trinity (Texas) 61 5-4 16 24 Wartburg 53 7-2 24 25 Coast Guard 45 5-1 NR
Others Receiving Votes and listed on two or more ballots: St. Scholastica 38; Nebraska Wesleyan 31; Occidental 27; Otterbein 23; St. Olaf 23; MIT 17; Whitworth 15; Wisconsin-Eau Claire 15; Springfield 11; Elmhurst 7; Washington & Lee 4; Bowdoin 2
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 13, 2011 14:56:16 GMT -5
I mentioned that it's too early for an official Pablo, but what I have so far suggests:
Deserve more love: Elmhurst Bethany Otterbein
Probably getting more love than they deserve so far: Cal Lutheran Platteville Trinity (riding the rep, haven't shown it this year yet)
Wartburg and Coast Guard are on the edge, and if you move Otterein and Elmhurst in to bump them out, it would be good.
Note to voters putting MIT on your ballot: Don't. They do not belong in this mix, not even among the others getting votes. There are so many decent undefeateds out there, take a look: Williams, Elmira, Clarkson
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Post by NotKingOfAnything on Sept 14, 2011 22:39:54 GMT -5
Saw #7 St Thomas absolutely destroy Gustavus 3-0 tonight. It was weird not watching Emily Foster at setter, but the new gal is pretty good.
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Post by havervb on Sept 17, 2011 21:34:20 GMT -5
Results from the Colorado College Invitational:
Friday, Sept. 16 No. 15 Concordia College def. Endicott College, 3-0 (25-6, 25-13, 25-21) No. 15 Concordia College def. No. 9 Juniata College, 3-0 (25-19, 25-23, 29-27) No. 12 Colorado College def. Endicott College, 3-1 (25-14, 23-25, 25-15, 25-15) No. 2 Washington University def. No. 9 Juniata College, 3-0 (25-16, 25-13, 25-18) No. 2 Washington University def. No. 12 Colorado College, 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 26-24)
Saturday, Sept. 17 No. 2 Washington University def. No. 15 Concordia College, 3-0 (25-20, 25-17, 25-19) No. 9 Juniata College def. No. 12 Colorado College, 3-1 (25-16, 20-25, 17-25, 19-25) No. 2 Washington University def. Endicott College, 3-0 (25-10, 25-22, 25-10) No. 15 Concordia College def. No. 12 Colorado College, 3-0 (25-14, 25-27, 25-21)
Also, in New England news: Springfield beat Coast Guard 3-1 (at Springfield) (25-23, 22-25, 25-22, 27-25). Sounds like a pretty close match.
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