NCAA record in Gophers match

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Meredith Nelson served 18 straight points tonight against Northwestern. We were told it was an NCAA record.

I'm going with it.

[IdahoBoy]

Could never have happened in Side Out scoring days.

[JHAM]

From gophersports.com:

Meredith Nelson (St. Croix Falls, Wis.) tallied a career-high five service aces on the night and had six kills. Nelson also set an NCAA record for consecutive points served with 18 straight points served in the second game. The string of points started after the Golden Gophers got a kill from Nelson to make it 8-4. Nelson proceeded to serve until Northwestern finally got a point to make it 25-5. Nelson’s 18 consecutive points served tied the record held by Courtney Thompson of Washington, who had 18 straight against Gardner Webb on Aug. 26, 2005.


“I thought I was dreaming that whole sequence,” said Nelson. “I kept serving and kept getting good location, and we kept scoring points. It was an amazing sequence. I don’t know how to describe the feeling, because it did not feel real.”

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Maybe my math is off, but if she served from 8-4 to 25-5 that's 17 points (from 9 to 25).

[d2dad]

October 21, 2006 Southern Illinois Vs Indiana St. Saluki setter Holly Marita served 21 straight to put SIU on top 20-0 to start the game.

siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/recaps/102106aaa.html

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Weird part of a weird sequence was that Northwestern finally sided out on an overpass. Fell to the floor on the Gophers side.

[bunnywailer]

idahoboy said:

Could never have happened in Side Out scoring days.

Well...

Technically speaking (insert geeky nerd movie voice on that....lol)

It could have happened, if a team's server served 15 straight points in a sideout scoring game, the team won that game, and then the team started out serving in the next game in that same exact rotation with the same server back, and she served 3 or more points in a row again.

*pushes nerdy glasses up*

;D

[IdahoBoy]

I stand corrected.... but laughing at you, nerd.



A geek laughing at a nerd, Tennessee in the Final Four, Nebraska falling to Colorado, what has this world come to?

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idahoboy said:

Could never have happened in Side Out scoring days.

Only the Maui Wowee could get you to think that. Actually a player could serve 45 points in a row in side out scoring: 15 straight to start the match. Then after the other team started serving the second match and sided out, the original server could serve another 15 straight points, and in the the third game, trade-off side outs until the original server strings another 15, to make 45 in a row. Other permutations also possible.

[Gorf]

They could actually get 47 in a row in SOS.



Game 1: Opponent serves 14 in a row then player serves 16 in a row.

Game 2: Serves 5 in a row.

Game 3: Repeat sequence of game 1.

[Deleted]

Hey, Gorf. You forgot to give me the cord for this wireless thingamajiggy.

[Gorf]

Dude, there is no cord for it.

You jam it into your PCMCIA card slot.

Well, not so much "jam" as such - gently slide it into the slot then push a bit harder to make sure it's connected.

[Deleted]

I'll get the cord from you on Wednesday. (You really do think I'm a moron, don't you? Although, seriously, the hard plastic container opened and I can't figure out how to close it.)

[Gorf]

The container isn't for that card, I just didn't want to expose the pluggy things at the end of the card to nature or to my clumsiness.

[OverAndUnder]

ruffda said:

Maybe my math is off, but if she served from 8-4 to 25-5 that's 17 points (from 9 to 25).

Yes, your math is off.
Sort of.

When the article says that she served 18 "points", what it means is "rallies". Therefore she started serving at point 8 and finished serving with the beginning of the rally at point 25.
That is 18 serves.