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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:54:34 GMT -5
SCU misses a great chance on a very broken Texas play, hits into the antenna. 23-13 Jennings really taking SCU out of system with serve. SCU hits out. 24-13 SCU uses the block. 24-14 Engle digs hit from SCU's RS, then gets the return kill. 25-14 Moriarty serves in the net. 25-15
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:56:10 GMT -5
OOOOOh. Overpass from Texas backrow, and Engle fake sets then HAMMERS it to the floor. 26-15 Texas error (unsure). 26-16 Acevedo serves, SCU hits out but gets a tip? (unsure) 27-16 SCU serves out AGAIN. 28-16
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:56:27 GMT -5
Hall serving.... gets an ACE. 29-16
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:57:58 GMT -5
Hall serves. SCU overpass, overpass TEXAS. Cmaylo kill, 29-17 Hooker dug twice... long rally.... long rally..... ENGLE left-hand dump-kills for match point. FIinal Score 30-17
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:58:31 GMT -5
Engle definitely match MVP.
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 19:59:39 GMT -5
The team is singing on the court, apparently today is Destinee Hooker's birthday.
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Post by Orpheus on Sept 7, 2006 20:00:16 GMT -5
Convincing win for the Horns. In other Big XII news, Kansas is up 2 games to 0 against BYU
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Post by OverAndUnder on Sept 7, 2006 20:10:41 GMT -5
I think teams are starting to adjust to Hooker's angle. When she is on front row I could see SCU move one of their players almost all the way on the backline to pick up the soft blocks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2006 20:31:10 GMT -5
I think teams are starting to adjust to Hooker's angle. When she is on front row I could see SCU move one of their players almost all the way on the backline to pick up the soft blocks. To get spanked -20, -25 and -17, with zero blocks in the process, that at best would be a Pyrrhic victory and most meaningless achievement. Sounds like they were playing out of a bunch of diagrams instead of the real world. Looks liked SCU needs a bit more adjusting to compensate for the loss of its only starter, at RS. Did I mention zero blocks? Hope those good-hearted SCU players brought a good supply of earplugs.
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Post by gollum on Sept 7, 2006 21:49:35 GMT -5
OOOOOh. Overpass from Texas backrow, and Engle fake sets then HAMMERS it to the floor. 26-15 Actually this was a designed play, the last few points they had Engle setting across the frontrow and Moriarity passing in serve receive. SCU had no idea this was coming, nobody jumped with her and she hammered.. Great home debut for the Horns. Penn State looks good. Tomorrow night will be a great match, look for Kisner/Engle to get served all night.
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Post by dorothymantooth on Sept 7, 2006 22:45:14 GMT -5
Santa Clara plays great volleyball, but going back to the Hawaii thread, its an issue of great athletes. A horse is a horse, and Santa Clara simply doesn't have the athletes to compete against the big boys. There will be some athletes on the court tommorow night. I think TX volleyball is going to be further along than PSU's. Green setter, Freshman OH, I like the horns.
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Post by Tex_VB_Fan on Sept 7, 2006 23:51:14 GMT -5
Santa Clara is nowhere near a top 10 team; way overrated. Pepperdine looked like a much better opponent last Friday than SC. Penn State looked very solid all around today against Missouri. Should be a powerhouse match Friday evening against Texas. Best passing team will win.
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Post by StuffU on Sept 7, 2006 23:54:31 GMT -5
Santa Clara plays great volleyball, but going back to the Hawaii thread, its an issue of great athletes. A horse is a horse, and Santa Clara simply doesn't have the athletes to compete against the big boys. There will be some athletes on the court tommorow night. I think TX volleyball is going to be further along than PSU's. Green setter, Freshman OH, I like the horns. The horses .. what a bunch of baloney! ... Keep in mind folks that two teams that "don't have the horses" made the final four last year. You don't need the horses to compete, just the drive, the health, the timing, and a little luck ~ that goes for all teams when it comes to the postseason
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Post by BearClause on Sept 8, 2006 0:07:38 GMT -5
The horses .. what a bunch of baloney! ... Keep in mind folks that two teams that "don't have the horses" made the final four last year. You don't need the horses to compete, just the drive, the health, the timing, and a little luck ~ that goes for all teams when it comes to the postseason Yeah - but that's more "lightning in a bottle". The question is whether or not they're truly a "top 10" team over the course of a season. Frankly I think their starting ranking was more emotional from last season's Final Four finish rather than any serious analysis of the team they have this season. I think they'll be good and deserving of being ranked in the top 15, but that preseason ranking had absolutely nothing to do with reality. It was AVCA poll voters taking a shortcut.
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Post by StuffU on Sept 8, 2006 1:59:18 GMT -5
The horses .. what a bunch of baloney! ... Keep in mind folks that two teams that "don't have the horses" made the final four last year. You don't need the horses to compete, just the drive, the health, the timing, and a little luck ~ that goes for all teams when it comes to the postseason Yeah - but that's more "lightning in a bottle". The question is whether or not they're truly a "top 10" team over the course of a season. Frankly I think their starting ranking was more emotional from last season's Final Four finish rather than any serious analysis of the team they have this season. I think they'll be good and deserving of being ranked in the top 15, but that preseason ranking had absolutely nothing to do with reality. It was AVCA poll voters taking a shortcut. Agree with your post, for the most part. But the question I was addressing was not whether or not their ranking was accurate or if they were a Top 10 team. The point I was addressing was that teams like SCU don't have the athletes to compete against the big boys. The results of last year show that assumption is inaccurate. All the horses at PSU couldn't overcome the "lesser atheltes" at Tennessee. All the horses at Stanford (even with injuries, they still have more horses) couldn't stop SCU. That was the point I was trying to address.
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