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Post by paidlive on Apr 22, 2016 21:05:42 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 22, 2016 21:08:16 GMT -5
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Post by paidlive on Apr 22, 2016 21:12:56 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 22, 2016 22:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 12:29:33 GMT -5
UH spikes Long Beach State, focuses on No. 1 USC
By Cindy Luis, Star-Advertiser
April 23, 2016
Past, present and future collide on the Queen’s Beach sand courts this morning, with No. 5 Hawaii playing not just No. 1 USC in the winners bracket semifinal of the Outrigger Resorts Invitational but with the Rainbow Wahine also looking ahead to the next two weeks.
Hawaii tinkered with its pairs Friday in defeating defending champion Long Beach State 4-1, and plans to use the same pairs today, as well as in next week’s Big West tournament and the inaugural NCAA championship the following week.
As for the past, the SandBows (12-6) want to improve on their previous meetings with the Women of Troy (24-2). Hawaii lost to USC 4-1 on March 15 at the Ching Complex and 3-2 on March 19 in the Hawaii Invitational at Queen’s Beach.
“We’ve improved each time we’ve played them,” Hawaii captain Katie Spieler said. “We have nothing to lose.
“We just want to go out and keep improving, and hopefully that leads to a win.”
A victory against the Women of Troy has been hard to come by for any opponent. USC won its 20th straight on Friday, shutting out Grand Canyon 5-0, and also had its top two duos win their respective flights in the pairs championship.
Hawaii coach Jeff Hall said he was unsure if he would keep Spieler and partner Emily Maglio at No. 1 or drop them to No. 2 and move up Friday’s No. 2 team of Nikki Taylor and Ka’iwi Schucht to No. 1. Spieler-Maglio suffered the SandBows’ only loss, falling to the 49ers duo of Rachel Nieto-Nele Barber, 21-15, 16-21, 15-13, while Taylor-Schucht — in their first match together this season — swept the Beach’s Jenelle Hudson-Zoi Konstantopolou 21-12, 21-19.
Whichever team UH puts in at No. 1, the SandBows will have to face All-American Sara Hughes and Kelly Claes. The USC pair ran its dual record to 27-0 with a 21-16, 21-14 win over Grand Canyon’s Shannon Dugan-Mackenzie Phelps but also remained undefeated in pairs play by beating Dugan-Phelps 21-17, 21-11 in the Flight 1 championship of the companion pairs tournament.
“They’re an unbelievable team, very special,” Hall said of Hughes-Claes. “We won’t decide until the morning who we’ll put in, but we’ll put who we think is our No. 1 in front of them and see if they can beat them.
“We did flop a few pairings today, and that’s a little scary because you don’t know how they’ll perform. And I’m really proud of Katie and Emily for the way they battled in their third set.”
Spieler-Maglio trailed 7-3 in the deciding set but went up 13-12 on a kill by Maglio. The 49ers tied it when Rachel Nieto’s shot hit the tape and trickled over, then closed it out on a kill by Nieto and an error by Maglio.
Still, Hawaii finished with the team victory, something that didn’t happen in this event last year. The SandBows won the dual with the 49ers 4-1 but, because organizers decided at the last minute to give 5 points to the winner of the No. 1 flight, the made-for-TV result was 6-4 in favor of The Beach.
“We did joke about that,” UH’s Hannah Zalopany said after her new pairing with Lara Schreiber was successful at No. 3. “We didn’t want to lose to them for real this time.”
While Schreiber moved to No. 3 with Zalopany, Schucht moved to No. 2 to team with Taylor for the first time this season. Taylor-Schreiber were 8-7 this season.
“Ka’iwi and I have had great practices the last two weeks, she’s been playing impeccable,” Taylor said. “Heading into the Big West (tournament), it would have a been a bad loss if we had lost today (to Long Beach State).
“We’re looking forward to seeing USC again. We know what we need to do and we’re excited about the opportunity.”
OUTRIGGER RESORTS ALOHA INVITATIONAL
Queen’s Beach
Today
Team duals
Double elimination
8 a.m.: Exhibition final
9 a.m.: Long Beach State vs. Grand Canyon
10 a.m.: Hawaii vs. USC
11 a.m. & noon: Elimination matches
2:30 p.m.: Championship (Flights 2 and 3)
3:30 p.m.: Championship (Flights 1, 4, 5)
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 12:30:51 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 12:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 12:34:28 GMT -5
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Post by wang pu on Apr 23, 2016 15:46:57 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 16:41:47 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 23, 2016 16:46:08 GMT -5
How do you copy and paste a tweet? just copy and paste the link to the tweet, and when u hit "post/reply" it's formatted automatically |
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 23, 2016 17:26:35 GMT -5
What a disaster.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2016 13:36:28 GMT -5
Trojans top SandBows for Outrigger title
By Cindy Luis, Star-Advertiser
April 24, 2016
All season long, top-ranked USC has brought its “A” game.
On Saturday, the “A” stood for “Anna.”
The Women of Troy were focused not just on winning the 2nd Outrigger Resorts Aloha Invitational but on giving their beach volleyball coach Anna Collier her 100th career victory. USC did so in sweeping fashion, defeating No. 5 Hawaii 3-0 for the championship at wind-and-rain-battered Queen’s Beach.
The Women of Troy (26-2) extended their winning streak to 22, clinching the title at Flight 1 when All-Americans Sara Hughes and Kelly Claes moved to 36-0 for the year with a 21-14, 21-14 victory over the Rainbow Wahine’s Katie Spieler and Emily Maglio.
“It was great to win the tournament; it was an amazing tournament, but today was all about Anna,” Hughes said after she and Claes won their 61st consecutive match. “She has given us so much and we wanted this for her.”
The split final saw USC take a 2-0 lead with wins at Flights 2 and 3 … but it wasn’t easy. Hawaii (13-8) was poised to even the match when No. 2 Nikki Taylor and Ka’iwi Schucht forced a third set against Sophie Bukovec and Alexa Strange.
Bukovec-Strange took a commanding 11-4 lead in Set 3 when Taylor went off, the All-American junior coming up with three aces, two kills and a block of Strange to pull UH to 11-10. It wouldn’t be enough, with USC using a 4-1 run, including a ace by Bukovec, for the win.
More impressive than Taylor’s showing was that of Claes in Flight 1 at the end of Set 1. After Katie Spieler’s kill gave UH a 14-13 lead, Hughes tied it with a kill, sending Claes to the service line.
When Claes was done, so was the set, with her three aces highlighting the 8-0 closing run. Claes added two more in Set 2, both landing just inside the line, and Hughes’ final kill clinched the dual with USC’s No. 4 and 5 pairs racing from their unfinished matches to join the celebration on Court 1 as Hawaii watched it on the large video screen.
“To see them run out on the JumboTron makes you want to win the next one with them,” said Wahine Hannah Rooks, who, with partner Ari Homayun, was leading her No. 5 match against USC. “We fought really hard the first set (winning 21-19). We had lost to them earlier today (21-18, 21-12 in bracket play), so I’m happy how we gave it our hearts this time.
“But I take this with a grain of salt. This is three times that they’ve beaten us on this beach. I’ll hold onto that as motivation, fight through the Big West (tournament) and fight to get to Alabama (site of the NCAA tournament) just to see them again.”
Hawaii and USC are favored to win their respective conference tournaments next week and, along with them automatic bids in the inaugural NCAA tournament May 6-8, in Gulf Shores, Ala. The Big West and NCAA format will mimic that of the Aloha Invitational in that play halts once a team has earned the clinching point.
“It was a little anti-climatic today with two teams still playing, and our girls were a little bummed, but as I told them this is how the national championship will be,” Hawaii coach Jeff Hall said. “I told them to use it as fuel for the fire, if you want to be angry, then use it as motivation.
“USC is so good, they have so many weapons, they can sideout and they can score by serving. That (Flight 1) match … we were in a nice position, feeling pretty good, and then (Claes) had that serving run. It changed everything.”
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2016 13:42:39 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Apr 24, 2016 13:53:13 GMT -5
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