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Post by bayarea on Oct 28, 2021 22:51:28 GMT -5
It looks like Pacific went on a 7-0 run to take the third set 25-23 and sweep Gonzaga.
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 28, 2021 22:52:53 GMT -5
Gonzaga can't recover after losing the lead. Pacific wins the 3rd, 25-23, and sweeps the Zags. Seems like this is the theme of the night lol |
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Post by Zazu on Oct 28, 2021 23:00:58 GMT -5
Gonzaga can't recover after losing the lead. Pacific wins the 3rd, 25-23, and sweeps the Zags. Seems like this is the theme of the night lol I haven't been watching long enough to know that. |
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Post by Zazu on Oct 28, 2021 23:01:11 GMT -5
Portland got to within one point at 15-16, but the Gaels have ripped off five straight to go up 21-15. Portland TO.
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Post by Zazu on Oct 28, 2021 23:06:29 GMT -5
Saint Mary's defeats Portland 3-1 with a 25-20 fourth-set win.
Saint Mary's only hit .178 to Portland's .185. They had 20 more attacks, 101 to 81, 4 more hitting errors, 15 to 11, and 7 more kills, 33 to 26. No one had more than 7 kills for SMC. In fact three players had 7 kills, Boo Laird, Elena Baka, and Chandler Cowell. Baka hit .000 (7/7/22). Chandler hit .192 (7/2/26), and Laird hit .500 (7/1/12). Ashley Reed had 6 kills, 1 error, on 12 swings for a .417 for the Gaels.
Portland was led by Jayde Harris. She had 11 kills, 2 errors, on 23 attempts for a .391. Jiana Lawson hit .300 (4/1/10). Portland had 6 aces and six service errors. SMC had 4 aces to 8 errors.Portland outblocked SMC 18 to 5 and outdug them, 45 to 37.
Ignore. See post below. No wonder those numbers seemed awfully low. They were wrong.
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 28, 2021 23:28:00 GMT -5
Chandler Cowell was strong for SMC tonight, 16 kills (.317%) + 8 digs + 1 block + 1 assist + 1 ace/3 service errors for Cowell tonight. Plus, out of the final 8 points SMC scored in the 4th set, Cowell kills accounted for half of them. She had good support from Laird (.500%) and Reed (.389%) as well, each with 10 kills. SMC did a good job of shutting down Swett and Bradley across the net who both hit negative on a combined 35 total attack efforts.
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Post by Zazu on Oct 28, 2021 23:28:26 GMT -5
Comparison of 1st & 2nd matches in conference play:
BYU vs. San Francisco
1st Match
@ San Francisco BYU won 3-0 (25-23, 25-16, 25-15) BYU hit .250 (40/15/100). USF hit .055 (28/23/91). BYU 35 assists | USF 24 assists
BYU 14 blocks | USF 3 blocks
BYU 38 digs | USF 38 digs
BYU 6 aces/9 errors | USF 4 aces/4errors.
2nd Match @ BYU BYU won 3-0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-14) BYU hit .381 (50/13/97). USF hit. .129 (25/14/85).
BYU 47 assists | USF 23 assists
BYU 10 blocks | USF 4 blocks
BYU 28 digs | USF 32 digs
BYU 4 aces/6 errors | USF 1 ace/5 errors.
Gonzaga vs. Pacific
1st Match @ Gonzaga Pacific won 3-1 (21-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-18) Pacific hit .165 (51/28/159). Gonzaga hit .149 (43/23/134).
Pacific 48 assists | Gonzaga 41 assists
Pacific 9 blocks | Gonzaga 9 blocks.
Pacific 51 digs | Gonzaga 53 digs
Pacific 9 aces/6 errors | Gonzaga 7 aces/11 errors
2nd Match @ Pacific Pacific won 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-23) Pacific hit .380 (54/13/108). Gonzaga hit .212 (32/11/99). Pacific 46 assists | Gonzaga 29 assists Pacific 1 block | Gonzaga 4 Pacific 46 digs | Gonzaga 32 Pacific 1 ace/9 erorrs | Gonzaga 4 aces/8 errors
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 28, 2021 23:42:19 GMT -5
Saint Mary's defeats Portland 3-1 with a 25-20 fourth-set win.
Saint Mary's only hit .178 to Portland's .185. They had 20 more attacks, 101 to 81, 4 more hitting errors, 15 to 11, and 7 more kills, 33 to 26. No one had more than 7 kills for SMC. In fact three players had 7 kills, Boo Laird, Elena Baka, and Chandler Cowell. Baka hit .000 (7/7/22). Chandler hit .192 (7/2/26), and Laird hit .500 (7/1/12). Ashley Reed had 6 kills, 1 error, on 12 swings for a .417 for the Gaels.
Portland was led by Jayde Harris. She had 11 kills, 2 errors, on 23 attempts for a .391. Jiana Lawson hit .300 (4/1/10). Portland had 6 aces and six service errors. SMC had 4 aces to 8 errors.Portland outblocked SMC 18 to 5 and outdug them, 45 to 37.
**edit: original post was corrected. keeping this post up to showcase the actual numbers. These #s are off...are you checking smcgaels.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2021/portland/boxscore/10123 ? These seem like numbers from earlier on in the match, before it ended. All the #s I see are bigger. Here's the revision: SMC hit % should be .215 to Portland's .177. SMC with 158 total attacks, Portland with 130. SMC with 24 hitting errors, Portland with 17. SMC with 58 kills, Portland with 40. Cowell came out with 16 kills (.317%), Baka with 11 (0.000%), Laird (.500%) and Reed (.389%) with 10. Portland's Harris had 16 kills hitting .317 as well (exact same as Cowell across the net). Lawson with 7 kills hitting .353. Portland had 8 aces, 9 service errors. SMC had 9 aces, 16 service errors. Portland with 14 blocks, SMC with 6. Portland with 65 digs, SMC with 61. |
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Post by Zazu on Oct 28, 2021 23:45:58 GMT -5
Saint Mary's defeats Portland 3-1 with a 25-20 fourth-set win.
Saint Mary's only hit .178 to Portland's .185. They had 20 more attacks, 101 to 81, 4 more hitting errors, 15 to 11, and 7 more kills, 33 to 26. No one had more than 7 kills for SMC. In fact three players had 7 kills, Boo Laird, Elena Baka, and Chandler Cowell. Baka hit .000 (7/7/22). Chandler hit .192 (7/2/26), and Laird hit .500 (7/1/12). Ashley Reed had 6 kills, 1 error, on 12 swings for a .417 for the Gaels.
Portland was led by Jayde Harris. She had 11 kills, 2 errors, on 23 attempts for a .391. Jiana Lawson hit .300 (4/1/10). Portland had 6 aces and six service errors. SMC had 4 aces to 8 errors.Portland outblocked SMC 18 to 5 and outdug them, 45 to 37.
These #s are off...are you checking smcgaels.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2021/portland/boxscore/10123 ? These seem like numbers from earlier on in the match, before it ended. All the #s I see are bigger. Here's the revision: SMC hit % should be .215 to Portland's .177. SMC with 158 total attacks, Portland with 130. SMC with 24 hitting errors, Portland with 17. SMC with 58 kills, Portland with 40. Cowell came out with 16 kills (.317%), Baka with 11 (0.000%), Laird (.500%) and Reed (.389%) with 10. Portland's Harris had 16 kills hitting .317 as well (exact same as Cowell across the net). Lawson with 7 kills hitting .353. Portland had 8 aces, 9 service errors. SMC had 9 aces, 16 service errors. Portland with 14 blocks, SMC with 6. Portland with 65 digs, SMC with 61. Yes. I saw your post and crossed this part of my post out. I was using the individual numbers from the live starts, which were not updated correctly. I don't know why I bother. They're hardly ever correct. They seemed strangely low, but when you are doing two things at once, it doesn't seem quite as strange for some reason.  |
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 29, 2021 0:14:58 GMT -5
Santa Clara actually up 21-19 in the third set at SD 22-19, and then USD rattles off two straight points. TO SCU. USD rattles off two more points to take the lead at 23-22. Another TO for SCU After watching most of the B1G teams with their stellar back row play, I'm always disappointed that the WCC teams are nowhere near that level of backcourt defense. And none of them seem to set a priority on recruiting an excellent libero, or two, so the back row is sometimes like Swiss cheese. Well, I would point out that BYU is No. 2 in the country in opponent hitting percentage at .112. And unlike with some BYU teams, it isn't really being done by the block so much, as they're 67th in the country in that category at 2.38 b/s. |
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 29, 2021 8:40:02 GMT -5
Santa Clara actually up 21-19 in the third set at SD 22-19, and then USD rattles off two straight points. TO SCU. USD rattles off two more points to take the lead at 23-22. Another TO for SCU After watching most of the B1G teams with their stellar back row play, I'm always disappointed that the WCC teams are nowhere near that level of backcourt defense. And none of them seem to set a priority on recruiting an excellent libero, or two, so the back row is sometimes like Swiss cheese. Well, I would point out that BYU is No. 2 in the country in opponent hitting percentage at .112. And unlike with some BYU teams, it isn't really being done by the block so much, as they're 67th in the country in that category at 2.38 b/s. BYU is no doubt the strongest team in the WCC this year. They're very well rounded and their DS have done well so far (Bower helps a ton also), BUT at this time they don't have much competition in the WCC (USD ranked 20th, Pepperdine 25th, everyone else unranked). Again, they did well against Utah but we saw what happened to them against highly ranked Pitt. We'll see how their back row performs in the tourney when they're compared against teams with stellar back rows...like Nebraska and Wisconsin, and are also tested against teams like Texas and Louisville with lethal offences...guess we'll see if it turns into Swiss cheese or not when they're challenged. Hope they'll be ready! |
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 29, 2021 8:43:59 GMT -5
Well, I would point out that BYU is No. 2 in the country in opponent hitting percentage at .112. And unlike with some BYU teams, it isn't really being done by the block so much, as they're 67th in the country in that category at 2.38 b/s. BYU is no doubt the strongest team in the WCC this year. They're very well rounded and their DS have done well so far (Bower helps a ton also), BUT at this time they don't have much competition in the WCC (USD ranked 20th, Pepperdine 25th, everyone else unranked). Again, they did well against Utah but we saw what happened to them against highly ranked Pitt. We'll see how their back row performs in the tourney when they're compared against teams with stellar back rows...like Nebraska and Wisconsin, and are also tested against teams like Texas and Louisville with lethal offences...guess we'll see if it turns into Swiss cheese or not when they're challenged. Hope they'll be ready! Eh, I don't know that one match, which just happened to be their worst match of the season, is more representative than 20 matches. Certainly, their schedule wasn't as tough as I would have liked. BYU is ranked No. 2 in Pablo right now, so they must be doing something right. I guess we'll see. |
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 29, 2021 8:55:48 GMT -5
BYU is no doubt the strongest team in the WCC this year. They're very well rounded and their DS have done well so far (Bower helps a ton also), BUT at this time they don't have much competition in the WCC (USD ranked 20th, Pepperdine 25th, everyone else unranked). Again, they did well against Utah but we saw what happened to them against highly ranked Pitt. We'll see how their back row performs in the tourney when they're compared against teams with stellar back rows...like Nebraska and Wisconsin, and are also tested against teams like Texas and Louisville with lethal offences...guess we'll see if it turns into Swiss cheese or not when they're challenged. Hope they'll be ready! Eh, I don't know that one match, which just happened to be their worst match of the season, is more representative than 20 matches. Certainly, their schedule wasn't as tough as I would have liked. BYU is ranked No. 2 in Pablo right now, so they must be doing something right. I guess we'll see. They're doing lots right! They're doing all they can at the moment...winning their conference and dominating WCC (and some NCAA-wide) stats. Can't go back in time and change the outcome of that Pitt game, which has been their only loss this year. Unfortunately, when a team only has one test against a highly ranked team and they lose it's hard to justify bumping them up the rankings or betting on them to win against top 5 teams who have more impressive wins under their belt. I really don't think there's much more BYU can do to move up the rankings until they get more ranked wins. As you said, it comes down to the easier pre-season schedule. |
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 29, 2021 10:11:41 GMT -5
I really love Aylen Ayub. I'm so disappointed USF doesn't have offensive options. Yeah, I've been a fan of Ayub since the spring. I imagine there are a number of P5 schools that could use her. As for San Francisco, they might be the most disappointing team in the country for me personally. I think they were my second-favorite WCC team during the spring. They weren't as good as BYU, Pepperdine or San Diego, but they were more competitive than I ever would have expected based on their history in the previous several years. I legitimately ranked San Francisco as the fourth-best team in the WCC in the spring, ahead of LMU, who they beat twice in consecutive five-setters. |
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Post by Zazu on Oct 29, 2021 12:53:03 GMT -5
I really love Aylen Ayub. I'm so disappointed USF doesn't have offensive options. Yeah, I've been a fan of Ayub since the spring. I imagine there are a number of P5 schools that could use her. As for San Francisco, they might be the most disappointing team in the country for me personally. I think they were my second-favorite WCC team during the spring. They weren't as good as BYU, Pepperdine or San Diego, but they were more competitive than I ever would have expected based on their history in the previous several years. I legitimately ranked San Francisco as the fourth-best team in the WCC in the spring, ahead of LMU, who they beat twice in consecutive five-setters. Count me in as a huge fan of Ayub. She is the best pure setter I've seen in several years. I kept thinking during last night's match that if San Diego had her on their team, that match against BYU would have been much different. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed watching a setter so much. |
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