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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 10, 2019 12:58:24 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 10, 2019 13:01:34 GMT -5
No. 19 University of Hawaii women’s volleyball wary of Riverside By Cindy Luis cluis@staradvertiser.com Today Updated 12:05 a.m. Honolulu Star-Advertiser ANDREW LEE / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Hawaii senior Norene Iosia leads the Rainbow Wahine with 36 service aces this season and ranks fifth in program history with 127 in her career.There are two things that Hawaii usually can count on when playing a road match. The Rainbow Wahine will have more fans than their host and the opponent will play one of its best matches of the volleyball season. Hawaii coach Robyn Ah Mow expects both today when the No. 19 Wahine (21-3, 11-2 Big West) close out their final regular-season road trip of the year at UC Riverside (6-17, 2-10). The Highlanders are coming off their first victory since the Sept. 24 conference opener against Cal State Fullerton, taking down UC Irvine in five sets on Tuesday. That result has caught Hawaii’s collective attention. The Wahine were unable to hold on against UCI on Oct. 4 in Honolulu, losing in five to the Anteaters for what is still UCI’s only conference win. “We know that any team we play is going to play hard against us,” Ah Mow said. “I don’t know what it is about Riverside. It’s a normal gym, but every time we go there, our energy’s not up. “We’ve got to be ready.” Hawaii survived a slow start on Friday before topping host UC Davis in four sets. The match saw freshman Hanna Hellvig turn in her 19th double-digit kill performance, matching her uniform number with 17. Senior setter-hitter Norene Iosia came up one kill short of her sixth career triple-double, finishing with nine kills in addition to 28 assists and 13 digs. She now ranks 10th in career digs (1,114) and ninth in career assists (3,019) and is seven aces shy of passing UH associate head coach Angelica Ljungqvist (133) for No. 4. Iosia had two aces against the Aggies on Friday, adjusting her serve at the suggestion of Ah Mow and assistant coach Kaleo Baxter. “They wanted me to start serving deep,” Iosia said. “It’s a deeper serve that drops at the end.” She’ll continue to work on that today in SRC Arena against the Highlanders, who were aced twice by UCI on Tuesday. Riverside also had three players in double-digit kills for the first time since the win over Fullerton six weeks earlier: freshman Amarachi Osuji (14), junior Ayla Fresenius (14) and junior middle Kat Lowry (13). Fresenius had a team-high seven kills, while Osuji and Lowry had one kill each when Hawaii swept the Highlanders on Oct. 18 in Honolulu. Today’s goal for the Wahine is to remain sharp. They won’t play again until hosting Cal State Northridge on Nov. 21 and Long Beach State on Nov. 22 to close the regular season. Winning the final three matches would guarantee Hawaii at least a share of the Big West title. The Wahine have the tiebreaker over Cal Poly (17-7, 10-2) and UC Santa Barbara (19-4, 9-3). The Mustangs broke the tie for second place by sweeping the Gauchos, 25-13, 25-18, 25-19 on Saturday to run the nation’s longest current home win streak to 30. Cal Poly moved to within a half-game of Hawaii. — BIG WEST VOLLEYBALL
Today, noon HST
No. 19 Hawaii (21-3, 11-2) at UC Riverside (6-17, 2-10)
>> Radio: 1500-AM
>> TV: None
>> Live stream: BigWest.tv
>> Series: Hawaii leads, 26-0
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Post by haw2991 on Nov 10, 2019 18:39:45 GMT -5
Hawaii's RPI rises to #10 after the A&M lost however, this is without implementing the Riverside win. I'm assuming we'll drop significantly once it is implemented....
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Post by kaipono on Nov 10, 2019 18:51:45 GMT -5
I'm guessing that the nominations for the Big West weekly awards this coming week will be:
BWFOW - Hanna Hellvig - 28 Kills (4.00 Kills/Set) hitting for 0.310, 5 Blocks (0.714 Blocks/Set), 3 Digs (0.43 Digs/Set), and an Assist BWDPOW - Rika Okino - 32 Digs (4.57 Digs/Set), 7 Assists (1.00 Assists/Set), and an Ace
For BWPOW, I'm guessing that they will probably nominate Hellvig again, though I'm guessing Dvoracek will win it because of the importance of the match, or Williams from LBSU will win it with her numbers.
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Post by haw2991 on Nov 10, 2019 18:54:52 GMT -5
Hawaii's RPI will be at #13 tomorrow.... The separation between Hawaii and #12 Kentucky is .001 and #11 Penn St is .002
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 10, 2019 23:43:28 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 10, 2019 23:43:42 GMT -5
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Post by kokyu on Nov 11, 2019 0:19:22 GMT -5
Hawaii's RPI will be at #13 tomorrow.... The separation between Hawaii and #12 Kentucky is .001 and #11 Penn St is .002 Very low probability our current lineup would beat PSU, don't know anything about Kentucky.
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Post by ohi87 on Nov 11, 2019 11:18:48 GMT -5
RPI holds steady at 11
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Post by raian13 on Nov 11, 2019 14:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 11, 2019 14:54:18 GMT -5
No. 19 Hawaii volleyball team sweeps UC Riverside
By Joseph D’Hippolito Special to the Star-Advertiser Today Updated 12:05 a.m.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. >> Even a nationally ranked women’s volleyball team can find room for improvement, as Hawaii demonstrated Sunday.
The 19th-ranked Rainbow Wahine earned their ninth consecutive victory by boosting their hitting percentage from their previous match during a 25-19, 25-11, 25-17 sweep of UC Riverside at the Student Recreation Center Arena.
UH (22-3, 12-2) extended its lead in the Big West Conference’s standings to one game over second-place Cal Poly (17-7, 10-2) and two games over UC Santa Barbara (19-4, 9-3) heading into a bye week. The Wahine also remained undefeated in 27 matches against Riverside since the series began in 1974.
In their four-set victory Friday night at UC Davis, the Wahine hit between .152 and .182 in each of the final three sets after compiling a .484 percentage in the first set, and finished at .286. But against the Highlanders (6-18, 2-11), UH forged a season-high .358 percentage, hitting .636 with no attack errors in the second set (14-0-22).
Freshman hitter Hanna Hellvig and senior hitter McKenna Ross each had a match-high 11 kills, Ross hitting a career-high .688 with no errors on 16 attempts. Junior hitter Brooke Van Sickle added nine kills.
In the process, the Wahine showed themselves as still a work in progress.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with the win but not too happy with some of the plays,” UH coach Robyn Ah Mow said. “There were some plays where I was thinking, ‘Are we playing volleyball?’ I thought we made a lot more mental errors.”
So how has the team’s concentration been developing this season?
“I think it’s gotten better but in some games, we lose focus,” Ah Mow said. “Some games are just less focused than others. There’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to work on.”
Ah Mow even attributed the improved hitting percentage to “less errors, less mistakes in focus,” she said.
Riverside exploited Hawaii’s early mistakes to keep pace in the first set. The Highlanders scored four of their first five points on UH hitting and serving errors. Both teams tied the score 10 times and exchanged the lead five times.
“They have a really great defense,” Ross said. “They did a great job of not letting the ball hit the floor on our harder hits.”
Ah Mow elaborated.
“They just had some crazy digs, crazy ups,” she said. “They play hard defense.”
But at 16-16, the Wahine made their move: a 6-1 surge that put them ahead, 22-17. Van Sickle pounded two kills during the spree, with freshman middle Amber Igiede adding a kill off senior Norene Iosia’s quick set before joining freshman hitter Riley Wagoner to block the Highlanders’ Alexis Vanlandingham.
Ayla Fresenius enabled Riverside to draw within 22-19 when teaming with Kat Lowry on a block against Hellvig and punching a kill. But, following a timeout, UH scored the next three points.
Iosia’s quick set found Igiede for another kill, then Hellvig and Skyler Williams combined to block Fresenius. Ross ended the set with a cross-court kill from the left pin.
UH dominated Set 2 early by building an 8-1 advantage and only allowed the Highlanders to score consecutive points just once when cutting Hawaii’s 17-7 lead to 17-9.
Hellvig and Van Sickle combined for four of the points, with Van Sickle scoring two service aces after Hellvig hit two kills from the right side. But Set 3 resembled Set 1.
The Wahine turned a 5-2 deficit into a 9-7 lead, with Ross pounding three kills and Williams providing two kills off quick sets and a block assist during the recovery. Yet Riverside regained a 12-10 advantage before UH moved ahead, 15-13.
After Isabella Scarlett’s kill narrowed the Highlanders’ deficit to 15-14, the visitors scored the next five points. Williams registered another kill and another block assist during the 5-0 blitz, and Bailey Choy added her second service ace.
Riverside drew within 20-16 but Van Sickle smashed three kills during the Wahine’s ensuing 5-1 surge. The junior transfer from Oregon converted match point by smashing a cross-court kill from the left antenna.
“They are very good defensively but we knew that, Hellvig said. “We were more prepared. We just had to win serves and pass.”
Iosia had 20 assists and eight digs, and now needs 17 digs to pass Suzanne Eagye and take over ninth place on the program’s career list. Igiede finished with four block assists and Rika Okino had 15 digs, both match highs.
Lowry collected eight kills for Riverside and Morgan Kline had 22 assists and 13 digs.
The Highlanders did not hit above .100 this season against the Wahine, hitting .096 Sunday and .022 at the Stan Sheriff Center on Oct. 18.
The Wahine finish out the regular season at home with matches against Cal State Northridge (12-13, 7-6) on Nov. 21 and Long Beach State (10-15, 7-6) on Nov. 22.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 11, 2019 14:56:36 GMT -5
some nice pics...
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Post by shakashank on Nov 11, 2019 17:12:24 GMT -5
Okino having an awakening or giving us false positives? Let's try: OPP: Vig OH1: BVS OH2: Wag M1: Igiede M2: Williams S: Choy L: Okino Sparkplug for Wag: Ross Serving sub and backup for Okino: Iosia Pass dimes, feed the Swede, win the NC. Here's a line up I would love to see heading into this weekend/playoffs…(with everyone being healthy of course) OH – JR and BVS MB – Williams and Igiede Oppo – Hanna and Noreen S – Noreen and Bailey L – Okino Ross or Wagoner first off the bench for passing/hitting. Hawaii should be in playoff mode right now. Hanna’s bread and butter are at the oppo position but for obvious reasons she asked to play a bigger role due to injuries. When everyone is back, if the team lets Hanna focus on her hitting/blocking the team will be even better. As for Noreen, who I think is a talented and experienced all around volleyball player, probably an upgrade at the oppo position if left in when Hanna rotates to the back row. This would give opponents block a hard time by having four solid options in setting the pins, middle, and back row. I am having a hard time understanding why Kyra is splitting time with Okino in the backrow? Kyra is doing great things as a serving specialist, however it think Okino is will the best option at this time.
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Post by kaipono on Nov 11, 2019 18:23:18 GMT -5
Congrats to Hellvig on another BWFOW honor! I found it surprising that they finally decided to nominate Iosia for BWPOW when she may have had a bigger weekend last week.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Nov 11, 2019 18:24:40 GMT -5
Hanna at this time, seems a lock for Big west FOY.
This will be our first FOY since Hartong in 2010! Exciting to see.
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