Hawaii 2023

[ManapuaSurprise]

With Hogland not returning, I can see UH giving Nusterer time vs UCSD if Sets 1 & 2 are looking easy

[goblin]

Listening to Tiff Wells post match interview with Hogland. He asked Cole what was running thru their minds in the 1st set when they were down by 5 points early and he says “ah no worries , we get ‘em!”😆. This team has mastered the art of coming back from behind, panic is not in their vocabulary. It feels like we’re peaking at the right time. We’ll see.

[aaronic]

Now that Senior night is here, we can finally get an idea of who will be leaving/staying for next year. The extra year of COVID eligibility has really made it fun to speculate who will leave/stay (and use their COVID year).

Apparently there will be six players graduating from the program this year: three we all already knew of, Thelle, Humler, and Akana.

Also Hogland (already figured), but also Mouchlias and Devon Johnson.

This means that Todd and Sheward will be staying?!? A little surprised as next year will be like their seventh year in the program?!? Hey, have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes academically with them, but cheers to next year.

Plus, Galloway, Voss will also be using their COVID year. Should make for an intriguing “rebuilding” year.

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Apr 9, 2023 7:29:57 GMT -5 aaronic said:

Now that Senior night is here, we can finally get an idea of who will be leaving/staying for next year. The extra year of COVID eligibility has really made it fun to speculate who will leave/stay (and use their COVID year).

Apparently there will be six players graduating from the program this year: three we all already knew of, Thelle, Humler, and Akana.

Also Hogland (already figured), but also Mouchlias and Devon Johnson.

This means that Todd and Sheward will be staying?!? A little surprised as next year will be like their seventh year in the program?!? Hey, have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes academically with them, but cheers to next year.

Plus, Galloway, Voss will also be using their COVID year. Should make for an intriguing “rebuilding” year.

Spyros Chakas?

[hwnstunner]

Where was it officially announced Hogland and Johnson aren't returning?

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Apr 9, 2023 13:07:44 GMT -5 hwnstunner said:

Where was it officially announced Hogland and Johnson aren't returning?

maybe not official, but it's from the media, and brian mcinnis is as reliable as they come ...

[hwnstunner]

Apr 9, 2023 13:46:11 GMT -5 Cubicle No More ... said:

Apr 9, 2023 13:07:44 GMT -5 hwnstunner said:

Where was it officially announced Hogland and Johnson aren't returning?

maybe not official, but it's from the media, and brian mcinnis is as reliable as they come ...

Thanks Cubi.

Ahh man, what an amazing senior class.

Steward and Todd will be six-year players next season. Wowza!!

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No. 1 Hawaii sweeps No. 5 UC Irvine to remain atop Big West standings

By Jason Kaneshiro
4/9/23, Honolulu Star-Advertiser


JAMM AQUINO / [e-mail]
Warriors Cole Hogland, left, Chaz Galloway, Brett Sheward, Dimitrios Mouchlias and Jakob Thelle celebrated match point in UH’s 26-24, 25-20, 25-19 victory.



On this night, Chaz Galloway served as the closer.

After being subbed out on a service turn early in Saturday’s match against UC Irvine, the University of Hawaii outside hitter delivered from behind the line in closing out all three sets in the Rainbow Warriors’ sweep of the Anteaters on Saturday at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.

Galloway was on the line when the Warriors completed a momentum-seizing comeback late in the first set. He fired an ace and forced an overpass to close out the second and again set up the final two points of the match with tough serves as No. 1 Hawaii completed a series sweep with a 26-24, 25-20, 25-19 victory over No.5 UC Irvine before a “Magnum P.I. Night” crowd of 7,748.

“That’s what we train for,” Galloway said. “To be in the moment, having however many people were out there cheering for you, you can go back there and give your best serve.

“(UH reserve Keoni Thiim) was in the back and he’s like, ‘Just send it, just crack it.’ So that’s what I did — I tossed it high and I went for it.”

Galloway delivered two of UH’s eight aces and opposite Dimitrios Mouchlias shook off a rough serving night on Friday to land three aces in the Warriors’ seventh consecutive win and 13th straight in the series with the Anteaters.

Mouchlias led the Rainbow Warriors with 12 kills and Galloway and Spyros Chakas added nine each and UH (24-2, 7-1 Big West) will enter the final week of the regular season tied with Long Beach State (18-3, 7-1) for first place in the conference race.

UC Irvine (16-8, 6-2) entered the week as the lone unbeaten team in Big West play but dropped to third with two losses in Manoa and will face LBSU in a home-and-home series this week.

The Warriors close the regular season with a series against UC San Diego (8-14, 2-6) starting Friday with senior night set for Saturday.

“I had no idea about (the standings),” Galloway said. “I feel like we we’re taking it one match at a time and focusing on the opponent across the net and next week with San Diego, they’re going to be great games and hope to celebrate the seniors.”

The series with the Tritons will mark the final home appearances for Mouchlias, setter Jakob Thelle, middle blocker Cole Hogland, and outside hitters Kana’i Akana, Filip Humler and Devon Johnson.

UCI opposite Francesco Sani put away a match-high 15 kills and outside hitter Cole Gillis added 12 kills on 21 swings. Hilir Henno, the nation’s leader in aces, scored on his first two serves of the match, but UH effectively handled UCI’s serves for much of the evening.

UCI entered the week leading the Big West in aces per set but was shutout from the service line after Henno’s first turn.

“That was one of the things we really thought we could do a better job of,” UH coach Charlie Wade said of UH’s passing. “They started (Sani and Henno) off back-to-back and it puts a lot of pressure on you getting those guys off the line.

“We needed to keep Jakob on the net and I thought we did a better job of that tonight.”

Thelle finished with 36 assists and three kills for an attack that hit .424, and the back-row work of Galloway, Chakas and libero Brett Sheward allowed him to feed Hogland for eight kills on 11 error-free attacks, while Guilherme Voss had four kills on seven swings in the middle.

“The guys always help me out having solid passes and settles the tone and allows me to play the offense that we like to play,” Thelle said.

Mouchlias had five service errors in UH’s four-set win on Friday but delivered a five-point service turn in the first set Saturday to answer Henno’s early run and later drilled an ace to tie the set at 23-23. After a Gillis kill gave UCI set point, Mouchlias answered to force deuce and Hogland and Thelle teamed on a block to flip the advantage to UH. Chakas then landed a kill in the middle of the UCI defense to give UH the set and momentum they carried into the next two sets.

“I think today was just really strong by us mentally and coming and making good service turns at the end of the set,” Thelle said.”Just being mentally on it and taking those risks on serve and just being confident with it definitely helped us tonight.”

Galloway and Thelle had aces off the net cord early in the third set and Mouchlias added two more aces while finishing with just two service errors in his 19 attempts.

“We talked about it at practice today and tried to clarify in his mind a little bit what he was doing,” Wade said. “And turned out he was trying to do too much. He was seeing different things when it’s just keep it simple and just keep banging it hard into the court. He did a really nice job today.”




JAMM AQUINO / [e-mail]
Hawaii outside hitter Spyros Chakas skied for a spike against UC Irvine in the third set at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center on Saturday.


JAMM AQUINO / [e-mail]
Hawaii middle blocker Guilherme Voss puts down a kill against UC Irvine middle blocker Connor Campbell.


JAMM AQUINO / [e-mail]
Hawaii outside hitter Chaz Galloway put down a kill past UC Irvine setter Joe Karlous during the second set of Saturday’s match.

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[soljah808]

Apr 9, 2023 13:49:51 GMT -5 hwnstunner said:

Apr 9, 2023 13:46:11 GMT -5 Cubicle No More ... said:

maybe not official, but it's from the media, and brian mcinnis is as reliable as they come ...

Thanks Cubi.

Ahh man, what an amazing senior class.

Steward and Todd will be six-year players next season. Wowza!!

Please Warrior Nation....SELL OUT THE STAN FOR THESE BOYS!

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Warriors senior night countdown begins after 13th straight win over UC Irvine

By Cindy Luis
4/9/23




Excerpt:

There will be tears. Count on it as the countdown continues.

Just two more home matches for Jakob Thelle and #WarriorBall23

No. 1 Hawai’i will celebrate six seniors a week from tonight with Senior Night as only Hawai’i can do it. Thelle’s already feeling it.

His parents and sister Julia, who will begin her Wahine beach volleyball career next fall, have been in Honolulu since early in the week after making the trek from their native Norway.

“The fans give us so much and we want to give everything back,” said Thelle after the top-ranked Warriors defeated No. 5 UC Irvine on Saturday night. “It’s the last two games and I’ve put a lot of thought into. Want to make it the best two games ever.”

Hawai’i got the party started early with 7,748 of its closest friends (8,409 tickets). The 26-24, 25-20, 25-19 straight-set victory was the first time UCI had been swept all season and It was the Warriors’ 13th consecutive win over the ‘Eaters dating to 2018.


Full story: www.cindyluis.com/2023/04/08/warriors-senior-night-countdown-begins-after-13th-straight-win-over-uc-irvine/

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Hawaiʻi men’s volleyball sweeps UC Irvine

Warriors win over Anteaters in intense three-set match

Michelle Chan, Staff Writer
4/9/23, Ka Leo


Hawai‘i middle blocker Cole Hogland (7) and Chaz Galloway (1) attempt to block UC Irvine's Francesco Sani (11) in the third set Saturday night.
Reece Nagaoka / Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi


Hawaiʻi setter Jakob Thelle (10) sets the ball in the opening set against UC Irvine Saturday night.
Rachel Gorham / Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi



Excerpt:

Senior setter Jakob Thelle also reflected on playing his last few home games, saying, “I put a lot of thought into that actually and just knowing that there aren’t a lot of chances to play in this site again. And I just want to make that as memorable as possible, leave everything out there, because all the fans have given me so much and I just want to give everything back, so it’s bittersweet for sure to play, now, just two more games in the Stan, maybe when we make that the best two games of the season.”


Full story: www.manoanow.org/kaleo/sports/hawai-i-men-s-volleyball-sweeps-uc-irvine/article_6f4b4b1a-d6ba-11ed-be8d-bfe58e422f0b.html

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Punahou rallies to take down nationally ranked Moanalua

By Paul Honda
4/9/23, Honolulu Star-Advertiser


ANDREW LEE / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER
Punahou’s Afatia Thompson hits on March 28.


Kahale Clini had 15 kills, three aces and five blocks as Punahou rallied for a wild 25-23, 30-32, 27-29, 25-23, 15-10 win over nationally ranked Moanalua in the championship match of the Clash of the Titans on Saturday night.

Justin Todd led Moanalua (27-3) with 25 kills and five blocks.

The three-hour match was tightly contested from start to finish. The host Buffanblu won the opening set and had a 23-21 lead in the second before Todd roofed Afatia Thompson to spark a rally.

Kills by Cody Bonilla and Todd closed out the longest set of the match.

Moanalua’s momentum continued into Set 3. Na Menehune led 13-8 before Punahou rallied to take a 17-16 lead. The Buffanblu had a 26-25 lead after an ace by Clini, but he followed that with a service error and Moanalua later took a 28-27 lead on a roof by Todd, a 6-foot-8 senior.

Jaycen Bush put Set 3 away with a kill.

Moanalua then led the fourth set 23-21, but Punahou came back with four consecutive points, including a kill and an ace by Evan Porter.

Moanalua led the final set 8-6 before Punahou rallied again, going on a 7-0 run behind the serving of Colby Kitagawa. Moanalua cut the lead to three points, but Thompson and Ian Kinney put the match away.

Thompson finished with 10 kills, while Porter, Kinney and middle James Taras had nine each. Porter and Matthew Chun tallied two aces each.

Kai Rodriguez had 14 kills for Moanalua, ranked No. 6 in the USA Today Super 25.

Punahou beat another Top 25 team, No. 17 Mira Costa, in pool play.

It was the first time in the tourney’s history that two Hawaii teams played in the final.

Moanalua went 3-0 in pool play with wins over Corona Del Mar (Calif.) 25-22, 25-15, 27-25; Santa Barbara (Calif.) 25-18, 25-21, 25-16 and Del Norte (Cal.) 25-15, 25-22, 26-24.

Corona Del Mar is ranked No. 13 in the USA Today Super 25.

Punahou led its pool with victories over Kamehameha-Hawaii 25-15, 25-16, 25-20; Mira Costa (Calif.) 18-25, 25-19, 25-20, 21-25, 15-13 and Bishop O’Dowd (Calif) 25-20, 25-21, 25-20.

Punahou will play at ‘Iolani on Tuesday in an ILH regular-season tiebreaker match.

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Friday’s matches

Moanalua def. Corona Del Mar (Calif.) 25-22, 25-15, 27-25

Punahou def. Kamehameha-Hawaii 25-15, 25-16, 25-20

Mira Costa (Calif.) def. Bishop O’Dowd (Oakland, Calif.) 25-23, 22-25, 20-25, 24-26

Santa Barbara def. Del Norte (Calif.) 17-25, 22-25, 23-25

Bishop O’Dowd def. Kamehameha-Hawaii 25-23, 18-25, 18-25, 15-25

Moanalua def. Santa Barbara 25-18, 25-21, 25-16

Corona Del Mar def. Del Norte 21-25, 25-23, 25-17, 25-12

Punahou def. Mira Costa 18-25, 25-19, 25-20, 21-25, 15-13

Saturday’s matches

Punahou def. Bishop O’Dowd 25-20, 25-21, 25-20

Corona Del Mar def. Santa Barbara 25-18, 25-16, 25-23

Mira Costa def. Kamehameha-Hawaii 25-18, 25-21, 25-21

Moanalua def. Del Norte 25-15, 25-22, 26-24

Pool A

Punahou 3-0

Mira Costa 2-1

Bishop O’Dowd 1-2

Kamehameha-Hawaii 0-3

Pool B

Moanalua 3-0

Corona Del Mar 2-1

Santa Barbara 1-2

Del Norte 0-3