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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 18, 2015 15:06:00 GMT -5
From Stephen Tsai's block on the Star-Advertiser Match day: BYU (Saturday edition)by Stephen Tsai on April 18, 2015 "Well, the volleyball Warriors probably need a redo on last night’s four-set loss to BYU. That’s the beauty of teams on polar ends of the MPSF. There is a rematch. The teams do it again at 3 p.m. Hawaii time. It’ll be on BYUtv. Things to ponder: ... " Full post here: hawaiiwarriorworld.com/warrior-beat/match-day-byu-saturday-edition/
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Post by kahusancali on Apr 19, 2015 2:09:16 GMT -5
I guess not expecting a big crowd now cause of the 2 losses at BYU?
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Post by kekoagoldenbear on Apr 19, 2015 10:34:50 GMT -5
I guess not expecting a big crowd now cause of the 2 losses at BYU? Do you think so? Hawaii should be fine. At least now the pressure is off their shoulders. BYU was on a 4-game losing streak last year heading into the playoffs and I believe they already clinched the MPSF before they left for the islands and ended up losing to Hawaii both nights. They just need to shake it off, because even my partner mentioned that Hawaii is clearly the better team, based on his observation and he doesn't even follow volleyball. LOL
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 19, 2015 15:33:17 GMT -5
BYU hands Hawaii a 5-set heartbreak
By Star-Advertiser staff
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 19, 2015
A week ago, a University of Hawaii volleyball player proposed to his girlfriend.
On Saturday in Provo, Utah, the Rainbow Warriors missed a chance to earn a ring.
In a five-set loss to Brigham Young, the Warriors squandered a chance to earn a share of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation's regular-season title when they lost 22-25, 25-21, 23-25, 25-18, 15-13.
The Warriors, who finished second, will host Long Beach State on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the MPSF playoffs. UC Irvine, which began the weekend a half-match behind the Warriors, won the regular-season title and earned the No. 1 seed.
"We had a chance to win," UH coach Charlie Wade said. "We didn't play great, but we played hard."
The Warriors needed to win both matches against BYU during this weekend's road trip. Instead, the Warriors extended a streak in which they have not won in Smith Fieldhouse since 2003.
"It's huge," BYU outside hitter Phil Fuchs said of the two-match sweep. "We've been talking about it all week. We've been telling ourselves, ‘We can take these guys,' " and they came in (Friday), and we took 'em. They came in (Saturday), and they played really well, and we took 'em. We know we can go toe to toe with any team."
Fuchs pounded a career-high 22 kills and had 10 digs. Freshman outside hitter Brenden Sander added 16 kills, including four in a row in the fifth set.
Brook Sedore led the Warriors with 21 kills, including nine in the third set.
In Friday's match, the Warriors played tentatively. In the rematch, Wade implored his servers to rip away.
"We wanted to make sure we stayed aggressive," Wade said. "We're better when we bring the fight to them rather than let them dictate the tempo."
The Warriors blasted five kills, and middle Taylor Averill had a four-point serving run in the fifth set. Averill went with jump-spin serves on Saturday after using floaters on Friday.
The price for aggressiveness is over-aggressiveness. The Warriors gave away a season-high 24 points on service errors.
Wade was comfortable with the tradeoff.
"You're serving them out of system and they have to play defense or you miss," Wade said, noting service errors also break a receiving team's rhythm.
But the Cougars, even out of system, found points from Fuchs and Sander. Fuchs was able to attack quick sets from behind the 3-meter line. Sander twice scored on left-handed push shots.
Wade turned the rotation to change the matchups. In one move, setter Jennings Franciskovic, who has a 41-inch vertical off an approach, switched with Sedore on a blocking assignment. On another, Averill and Davis Holt switched to face different middles.
The Warriors built a 9-7 lead in the fifth. Then Jake Langlois, BYU's leading hitter, came off the sideline for a crossing kill. He exited after that play, ending his only appearance in this series.
With Sander serving, the Cougars scored the next four points to seize control. That run consisted of two BYU blocks and two UH timeouts.
The Warriors were without two key reserves. Outside hitter Hendrik Mol did not make the trip because of an eye infection. Opposite Ryan Leung suffered a back ailment during prematch warmups. Scott Hartley, who was used as a serving specialist, had arm discomfort. All three should be available to play against Long Beach State.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 20, 2015 23:17:34 GMT -5
Hawaii falls to No. 3 in men's volleyball pollRainbow Warriors ranked behind Lewis, UC IrvineBy Star-Advertiser staff POSTED: 02:21 p.m. HST, Apr 20, 2015 LAST UPDATED: 03:28 p.m. HST, Apr 20, 2015 JAMM AQUINO Hawaii's Sinisa Zarkovic (16) bumps the ball into play in the second set of a men's college volleyball game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu.Hawaii's five-week run as the top-ranked men's volleyball team ended Monday with the newest AVCA Coaches Top 15 poll. The Rainbow Warriors (23-5), receiving one first-place vote, fell two spots after losing both matches at BYU last week to end the regular season. Lewis (24-2) moved up a spot to No. 1 with 13 first-place votes. UC Irvine (25-4), with five votes, jumped two spots to No. 2. The Anteaters won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regular-season title by a game over Hawaii and are seeded first in the MPSF tournament that begins Saturday with the quarterfinals. UCI hosts eighth-seeded UCLA (13-13) which stayed at No. 12. Hawaii hosts Long Beach State (15-12), which remained at No. 11. Also Monday, the Rainbow Warriors remained No. 4 in the Rating Percentage Index which will be used to choose two at-large teams for the NCAA championship tournament. Ahead of Hawaii are Lewis, Loyola-Chicago (22-2) and UC Irvine.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2015 15:37:32 GMT -5
Stephen Tsai's blog on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Averill, Sedore named to MPSF first teamby STEPHEN TSAI on APRIL 23, 2015 "Middle blocker Taylor Averill and opposite Brook Sedore today were named to the All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation’s first team. Libero Kolby Kanetake, outside hitter Siki Zarkovic and setter Jennings Franciskovic were selected to the second team." Full post here: hawaiiwarriorworld.com/warrior-beat/averill-sedore-named-to-mpsf-first-team/
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2015 15:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2015 15:39:53 GMT -5
congrats to Averill, Sedore, Kanetake, Siki and Jennings !!
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2015 15:41:10 GMT -5
Wade has a shot to earn a national championship
By Dave Reardon, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 24, 2015
On Sept. 1, 1995, a fiery young assistant helped the University of Hawaii women's volleyball team to a season-opening victory.
"My first match as Dave Shoji's assistant. Came back from 0-2 to beat Texas, and the Sheriff Center was rocking," Charlie Wade said. "From that moment on, all I wanted was to win a national championship for the people of Hawaii."
There were some opportunities for that in Wade's 11 years with the Rainbow Wahine, few better than that first season when Hawaii won its first 31 matches.
Now, 20 years later, Wade might have another shot at that elusive national title. This time it's as head coach of the UH men's team.
The Rainbow Warriors host Long Beach State in the first round of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation playoffs Saturday. Prior to two losses at Brigham Young last week, UH had won 16 in a row and was ranked No. 1 in the nation for a month.
Wade, 51, has clearly adapted and evolved.
In 2006, he left Hawaii to be the women's head coach at Pacific. He returned to the islands as the UH men's head coach in 2010.
"For Charlie it's been a long road," Shoji said. "First he had to adjust from coaching women to coaching men at a high level. Sometimes that's difficult."
There was also the adjustment from assistant to head coach. Some can't do it. Wade said the years with Shoji helped prepare him for it.
"I was ready mentally and emotionally for the change in responsibility and perspective," he said.
What was the most important thing he learned from Shoji, who has coached the Wahine for 40 years and to four national championships?
"To be patient in putting out fires," Wade said. "You see what you think is a problem and you think you have to solve it immediately. That's not always true, and Dave would let something work itself out if that was the best way to address it."
Said Shoji: "I think you have to assess the situation. There's a lot of give and take. You have to allow the players the ability to think and react and play on their own -- even if that might be different than your philosophy. We both found out you can't just hammer away and make young people play a certain way. You really have to learn a lot about your players."
Echoing Shoji, Wade knows he can't micromanage.
"We're not calling every play, our game doesn't really allow for that," he said. "The guys on the court have to be akamai in the moment."
When he watches the Warriors, Shoji said he sees signs of the first 17 years of Wade's college coaching career.
"It's just my observation, but I think that he's taken some of the philosophies from the women's game over to the men's game," he said. "Most men's teams all play the same way. An example is serving. (The Warriors) don't just go back there and hit it as hard as they can every time. You want to force the issue, but not be reckless. Most men's teams want to hit it as hard as they can. We're way smarter than that."
Wade's mantra regarding serving applies to the overall game as well: "Stay aggressive, but be smart."
Reach Dave Reardon at dreardon@staradvertiser.com or 529-4783. His blog is at hawaiiwarriorworld.com/quick-reads.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2015 15:43:02 GMT -5
Hartley insists he's good to goBy Stephen Tsai, Honolulu Star-AdvertiserPOSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 24, 2015 BRUCE ASATO / JAN. 16 Scott Hartley has been a valuable asset for the Rainbow Warriors, playing multiple positions.University of Hawaii volleyball player Scott Hartley is in a personal arm's race. He has tried rest, and he has worked out with 5-pound weights to strengthen the deltoid muscle and rotator cuff in his sore right arm. He has worn ice packs. He also has performed Bikram yoga in a room heated at 104 degrees. "I never sweated so much before in my life," he said. Hartley has even undergone ARP therapy, an electrical-stimulation treatment that breaks down scar tissue and increases blood flow while subjecting the patient to bullet-biting pain. And he has practiced, rocketing spikes against UH teammates, the third-ranked team in the nation. The pain in Hartley's swinging arm, suffered two days before last weekend's road matches against Brigham Young, limited his participation to serving specialist in that series. Siki Zarkovic and Kupono Fey started at the two outside-hitting positions. Whatever his role or discomfort level, Hartley vowed to be available for any situation against Long Beach State in Saturday's Mountain Pacific Sports Federation quarterfinals match in the Stan Sheriff Center. "My point is, even though I'm injured, I'm definitely going to give my all," Hartley said. "I'm not going to hold back. I definitely expect to play and not worry about my shoulder." Hartley provides another arm in a sport in which the most successful teams are the deepest. Hartley is skilled at Zarkovic's role as pin hitter and middle-back defender, and Fey's ball-control position. Hartley praised Zarkovic and Fey as "incredible" players. He added: "I'd like to play, but winning is more important to me. They're doing a great job." Hartley's upbeat attitude is widespread. The two losses to BYU dropped the Warriors to the No. 2 seed in the MPSF playoffs, meaning Saturday's quarterfinal is the only guaranteed postseason match in the Stan Sheriff Center. The highest-remaining seed hosts both the MPSF semifinals and title match. "I don't like that we lost to BYU, but that's behind us," Zarkovic said. "We don't care about that anymore. We're focusing on the upcoming games." Setter Jennings Franciskovic said: "BYU played really well, and we didn't play our best volleyball. We know that. We know what we need to do to win. If we're not going to play our best volleyball, it's going to be tough. But when we're playing our best volleyball, we can beat anybody, especially at home. We have only one more home match, unless UCLA upsets (top-seeded) Irvine." UH, like Long Beach State, has embraced "six" appeal. That's the number of postseason victories either team would need to earn a national championship. Franciskovic noted that "single elimination begins" this Saturday. The Warriors are in improved health. Opposite attacker Ryan Leung, who was bothered by back spasm in the second BYU match, no longer has discomfort. "Everybody is 100 percent," said Zarkovic, who was recovering from an ankle injury when the Warriors swept two matches against LBSU in February. The exception is pin hitter Hendrik Mol, who is suffering from an eye infection. While Mol will be missed, Hartley gives UH three outside hitters for two spots, and Leung can back up opposite Brook Sedore.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2015 15:43:59 GMT -5
i guess this may explain a little why hartley saw so little pt in the byu series ... hope his arm is rested and ready for the playoffs !!
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2015 15:46:06 GMT -5
Stephen Tsai's blog on the Star-Advertiser: The crewby STEPHEN TSAI on APRIL 24, 2015 Excerpt: "...Taylor Averill might not be the MPSF’s player of the year, but he certainly ranks high for sportsmanship. Averill, who is certain to be named an All-American next week, was genuinely happy that teammates Siki Zarkovic, Brook Sedore, Jennings Franciskovic and Kolby Kanetake received recognition from the MPSF. In nearly every interview, Averill acknowledges sports-performance trainer Daniel Mar Chong and athletic trainer Bruce Hamelin..." Full post here: hawaiiwarriorworld.com/warrior-beat/the-crew/
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2015 20:33:19 GMT -5
Hawaii volleyball team appreciates fans
Star-Advertiser
Published on Apr 24, 2015
The University of Hawaii men's volleyball team is hoping for a big turnout for Saturday's MPSF quarterfinal match against Long Beach State.
Video by Stanley Lee and Kimberly Yuen.
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Post by kahusancali on Apr 25, 2015 0:21:42 GMT -5
They're reporting that a lot of events happening at the same time at Manoa tomorrow and finding parking will be difficult. They're urging spectators to arrive early.
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Post by kahusancali on Apr 25, 2015 14:36:52 GMT -5
no new articles this morning ? went to the website but stories are for subscribers only
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