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Post by 808 on Sept 1, 2005 4:53:35 GMT -5
Christa Harmotto was an absolute animal tonight!! Hit .571 with no hitting errors. 1 BS, 12 BA. PSU, you've got yourself a good one!!
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Post by IdahoBoy on Sept 1, 2005 5:29:30 GMT -5
Christa Harmotto was an absolute animal tonight!! Hit .571 with no hitting errors. 1 BS, 12 BA. PSU, you've got yourself a good one!! Sorry I missed you at the match, 808... where were you sitting?
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Post by IdahoBoy on Sept 1, 2005 5:58:19 GMT -5
I'm having technical problems tonight, otherwise, I'd have pictures. You can look for them at ibvb.blogspot.com/Until then, my prize picture of the night.... Tara Hittle's Ankles. **If this doesn't come up for you, go to the blog: ibvb.blogspot.com/
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Sept 1, 2005 8:10:49 GMT -5
I'll post the box when i get back to the hotel, I think they're going to leave me. Quickly, venski with 22 k, copenhagen with 17, candelas with 16. 8 team blocks. 74 digs, 22 by seilhamer. for psu, fawcett with 18, harmotto with 12, walbridge with 11. harmotto hit .571 with 13 blocks, a psu record for a four game match. walters 27 digs, one shy of psu record for 4 gms. price with 18 digs. Walbridge 7blks, fawcett 4, tortorello 6, price 5, salyer 5. 21 team blocks. psu outhit usc .237 to .180. A very nice blocking performance by PSU, outblocking USC 21 - 8. That's impressive, indeed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2005 8:47:35 GMT -5
Very impressive performance by Penn State freshmen Harmotto and Fawcett; somewhat disappointing for USC's Kelli Tennant. Cope and Venski got a lot of kills but were effectively blocked. Looks like only Candelas escaped it. What happened to Bishop? The Troy women look to have run a 5-1 the entire match. Congratulations to Penn State for prevailing over the Pac 10 (I will resist saying finally). Methinks they will leave the Islands without a loss (even though Hittles ankle looks to be recovered).
Free admission but only 600 attendance?
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Post by 808 on Sept 1, 2005 10:17:42 GMT -5
Christa Harmotto was an absolute animal tonight!! Hit .571 with no hitting errors. 1 BS, 12 BA. PSU, you've got yourself a good one!! Sorry I missed you at the match, 808... where were you sitting? Unfortunately, I couldn't stay for the whole match, but was able to catch about half of it. I was in the middle of this wonderful bunch of enthusiastic Penn State fans, including Sam Tortorello's father and some other parents. Great bunch of people. We were sitting a few rows behind the PSU bench in the first game.
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Post by LanaiBoy on Sept 1, 2005 12:39:17 GMT -5
Sat among the Wahine players last night: Houston, Mason, Kamana'o, Watanabe, Keefe, Ong, and Thurlby. Some observations...impressed by the two "blond bombers," Diane Copenhagen of USC and Nicole Fawcett of Penn State. Both slammed the ball hard but both also made a lots of errors, resulting in low hitting percentages. Fawcett, especially, really can put heat on the ball. Harmotto, as noted by everyone, was indeed impressive, both hitting and blocking wise. Definitely a freshman POY candidate. Bibiana Candelas did not look like an All-American. Got no blocks and almost all her spikes were either tipped, blocked, or picked up. Her height did not seem to be that great advantage. Don't get me wrong. She is is good and one of USC's go-to players. However, she's all-league but not all-american caliber, at least from what I saw in this particular match. I may change my mind after the tournament is over.
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Post by roofed! on Sept 1, 2005 13:50:13 GMT -5
Bibiana Candelas did not look like an All-American. Got no blocks and almost all her spikes were either tipped, blocked, or picked up. Her height did not seem to be that great advantage. Don't get me wrong. She is is good and one of USC's go-to players. However, she's all-league but not all-american caliber, at least from what I saw in this particular match. I may change my mind after the tournament is over. Bibiana is a world class player. The problem is that the setters (last season and this season) so far have not been able to get the ball to her on a consistent basis. Often the balls were set too low for her to take advantage of her height and approach; especially when they were setting 1s to her, the balls were too low. When she was the first team AA in 2003, Toni Anderson set great balls to allow Candelas to hit over the blocks. Candelas was the MVP of the USA national competition when she led her Bameso club to the championship this summer. In 2002 World Championship, she was also the top scorer in round 1 of competition, not bad for someone who was a middle blocker and having to carry the offense for the Mexican team.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Sept 1, 2005 14:01:13 GMT -5
Ya know, roofed, I've seen Bibi play, maybe ten times now since she came to USC in person and a few more on TV. She's never established herself in my eyes as a dominant NCAA player on her own efforts. She is very good, and very tall, which lets her get over the block and gives more attacking options, and she's a surprisingly solid defender, but saying she is world class is in my opinion, just not true.
She does get the job done. She is an effective player, and when USC is firing on all cylinders (which they were not last night) she can be as dominating as most anyone in the NCAA's. But, she is not a dominating player on her own, in my perspective.
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Post by roofed! on Sept 1, 2005 14:21:31 GMT -5
I agree that her play at USC for the last 2 seasons (2004 and so far this season), has not been stellar but I attribute that more to problems with setting than her outright ability to hit. When Toni Anderson was setting her, she would be going for hard-hitting kills (look at her X-factor performance against Stanford in 2002 national championship; you can also check your tapes of the NACWAA match against Hawaii, especially on the last 3 points). Same story with Emily Adams. Last season, both Candelas and Adams struggled mightily with the balls set by Freeburg and Dillon: too low and too close that they could not get full approach on their arm swings and had to resort to last-minute tips instead. If USC had better setters to take over when Anderson and Lindquist graduated, Candelas and Adams would have better numbers.
The thing with Candelas is that she is a better hitter than as a blocker. As a MB, her specialty is hitting. I am sure that once her collegiate career is over, she will hit the professional circuits in PR and in Europe. Too bad that her national team is not that good to make some noise in international play.
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Post by LanaiBoy on Sept 1, 2005 14:55:19 GMT -5
Free admission but only 600 attendance? I think 600 is reasonable. There are five days of tournament play. Attending all five days is asking a lot of any sports fan.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2005 15:00:18 GMT -5
Why are there 5 days of tournament play?
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Post by VollyDolly on Sept 1, 2005 15:08:34 GMT -5
Why are there 5 days of tournament play? UH-USC football game is Saturday, so no games on that day. Also, the USC-Penn. St. volleyball game was moved to Wednesday for some reason, not really sure why.
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Post by LanaiBoy on Sept 1, 2005 15:16:36 GMT -5
Why are there 5 days of tournament play? Oops. Correction four days of tournament play. Got confused when they shifted the Saturday game to Wednesday. Should have said the tournament is scheduled over a five day period.
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Post by 808 on Sept 1, 2005 15:52:03 GMT -5
Why are there 5 days of tournament play? UH-USC football game is Saturday, so no games on that day. Also, the USC-Penn. St. volleyball game was moved to Wednesday for some reason, not really sure why. I heard that the schedule was changed at Penn State's request for travel reasons (they leave Hawaii to return to Pennsylvania and then to a quick turnaround and head back out to Nebraska again). They've sure got a tough, competitive pre-conference schedule, just based on the teams they're playing, but add in the amount of travel that they're doing and you've got to figure that if they come out of the first three weeks of the season relatively unscathed, they're going to be a huge factor at the end of the year.
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