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Post by sponge13 on Mar 23, 2004 23:56:03 GMT -5
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Post by matchpt on Mar 23, 2004 23:58:31 GMT -5
What happened here? Anyone see the match?
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Post by Smooth "954" Mike on Mar 24, 2004 0:11:12 GMT -5
I looked at the stats and there has to be a mistake because UC Santa Barbara didn't block one ball!
Anyone at the game? Are these blocking stats right??
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Post by BarcelonaBob on Mar 24, 2004 1:34:49 GMT -5
This isn't the first time UCSB has lost to Cal-Baptist during the regular season. They also lost to them during the Paal years.
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Post by My2Sense on Mar 24, 2004 1:46:31 GMT -5
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Post by BarcelonaBob on Mar 24, 2004 1:52:46 GMT -5
Brennan Velasco's grandaddy, Pete Velasco (mentioned in his bio) is also an ambidextrous volleyball player. He would freak people out by serving right-handed and then hitting left-handed. |
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Post by just...theDH on Mar 24, 2004 2:07:38 GMT -5
Great, first match of the week and already my prognostication is wrong.  |
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Post by Rocky on Mar 24, 2004 2:11:56 GMT -5
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Post by OC24 on Mar 24, 2004 2:33:21 GMT -5
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Post by BarcelonaBob on Mar 24, 2004 2:44:54 GMT -5
They are NAIA. Only reason they ever play MPSF teams is because of the close proximity for travel, and the fact that their aren't any other NAIA teams for them to play in SoCal.
Win-loss records against D1 opponents have no bearing on either team, since they don't play in the same post-season tournament.
I believe Cal-Baptist has kicked USC's butt a few times over the past couple of years. I remember a pretty heated pool-play match at the E-bar a few years back between Paal's Cal-Baptist squad and a USC squad headed by Suxho and Billings. Pretty entertaining stuff...the fur was flying in that game, for sure!
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Post by Rocky on Mar 24, 2004 2:50:30 GMT -5
Close proximity to MPSF teams? They travel to Hawaii for two matches this week. That's close!! ;D
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Post by vb on Mar 24, 2004 2:56:40 GMT -5
BYU West!!
CalB is still younger than BYU. Atleast they don't have 11 redshirted freshmen AND 2 yr exemption.
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Post by BarcelonaBob on Mar 24, 2004 2:56:43 GMT -5
Close proximity to MPSF teams? They travel to Hawaii for two matches this week. That's close!! ;D It's probably a big deal for them. Wilton's always been good about allowing other programs who play in relative obscurity the opportunity to play UH at the SSC in front of a big crowd. Has to do with open dates and matching schedules for these programs. There's alot of other MPSF teams who don't fill out their available play dates, and only play the same league schedule year-in and year-out. I remember Wilton bringing in the Cal club team back in the '96 season (when UH was consensus #1 in the country the entire season), because they had an open date just prior to the start of the MPSF tournament. Cal had a couple really good players who could have easily played for a scholarship program. Guys like Pat Aparicio. Anyway, I digress. Cal got the chance to play the #1 team in the country and they put on a good show. And Wilton got to keep his starters sharp for the MPSF tournament by letting them play the first game, then he cleared the entire bench and got his whole squad into the match. That's probably the same situation with Cal Baptist this year, although from the sounds of it, the match could be very competitive and force Wilton to keep his starters in the entire match. |
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Post by roy on Mar 24, 2004 6:06:17 GMT -5
Also keep in mind that there is a local boy on the Cal Baptist roster. I think he is either a junior or senior. Wilton tries to bring players with local ties back to the islands at least once.
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Post by vbbadman1 on Mar 24, 2004 8:36:04 GMT -5
Just crazy stuff going on out there! Only 6 of us guessed this one. Nobody guessed the games correctly.
Sometimes it better to be lucky than good.
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