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Post by DaDawgFather on Oct 1, 2005 22:37:10 GMT -5
UW was just better tonight.
UA passing didn't help and Abernathy and Glass hitting near the 10 foot line both in the front row and back row so they couldn't put any balls down.
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Post by Gorf on Oct 1, 2005 22:40:09 GMT -5
How many matches (and games) with the Huskies lose in the Big 10 this year?
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Post by azfan on Oct 1, 2005 22:41:18 GMT -5
Personally I think that Washington is that much better, right now. If they pass well they run the system very well. Courtney Thompson runs the offense nicely and they have lots of options. They should win the Pac 10 again I think.
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Post by YellowC on Oct 1, 2005 22:59:59 GMT -5
Nobody will challenge UW in the PAC 10 this year.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Oct 1, 2005 23:14:41 GMT -5
Nobody will challenge UW in the PAC 10 this year. I find this hard to swallow.
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Post by Rus Socoli on Oct 2, 2005 0:30:09 GMT -5
How many matches (and games) with the Huskies lose in the Big 10 this year? I don't understand your post. Grammar error? Big 10? You're losing your credibility? It's unbecoming of you.
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Post by StuffU on Oct 2, 2005 0:34:16 GMT -5
Was Arizona playing one of their "down" matches or is Washington really that much better? Washington really really really is that much better.
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Post by chipNdink on Oct 2, 2005 2:27:19 GMT -5
Was Arizona playing one of their "down" matches or is Washington really that much better? Washington really really really is that much better. For perspective, Washington won the Pac-10 last year, the Pac-10 that had 3 of the 4 teams in the Final Four. Washington did it for most of the season last year WITHOUT Sanja Tomasevic due to injury. UW only lost one of the starters from last year's team due to graduation, Kaitlin Leck, the RS hitter. That RS hitter position is now being anchored by Sanja Tomasevic this year. Jessica Veris, a senior this year, was a starting MB on last year's team. This year, with the rise of Alesha Deesing, Jessica has not even been able to see any playing time. I don't know about other teams, but this year's UW team is MUCH, MUCH, BETTER than last year's UW team.
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Post by Gorf on Oct 2, 2005 7:47:01 GMT -5
How many matches (and games) with the Huskies lose in the Big 10 this year? I don't understand your post. Grammar error? Big 10? You're losing your credibility? It's unbecoming of you. Eh,.. Ummm... Errr.. Typo?
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Post by beachman on Oct 2, 2005 8:17:50 GMT -5
How many matches (and games) with the Huskies lose in the Big 10 this year? They are gonna run the table in matches! May lose a few games but no matches....this is the best team in the ciountry!
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Post by prosem on Oct 2, 2005 12:06:47 GMT -5
Volleyball roundup: No. 2 Huskies blast Wildcats
By Terry Wood Special to The Seattle Times
Some of the thunder heard around Seattle yesterday was coming from inside Edmundson Pavilion.
The front line of the No. 2-ranked Washington volleyball team dropped one thunderbolt after another on Arizona and convincingly ended a seven-match winning streak for the 13th-ranked Wildcats with yet another 3-0 sweep.
The Huskies (12-0, 3-0 Pac-10), one of five unbeaten teams in the country, have yet to lose a game during a match this season — the nation's only team with a totally unblemished record.
While winning 30-23, 30-17, 30-19 last night in front of 2,617 fans, Washington pounded Arizona (11-2, 3-1) with high-velocity front-line play that for the second straight night produced double-digit kills from three players: Christal Morrison (15), Sanja Tomasevic (14) and Brie Haggerty (10).
"Our hitters did a nice job of finishing plays," Huskies coach Jim McLaughlin said. "Courtney [Thompson, junior setter] did a good job moving the ball around. They didn't know where we were going to go."
These sort of power plays are nothing new to McLaughlin.
"It's a neat deal during a game," he said, "but it's like that every day in practice."
Morrison's kills came on 32 swings, and she drew a few groans and gasps from the crowd with her pile-drive hitting.
"She's unreal," McLaughlin said of the 6-foot-2 sophomore from Puyallup High School, "and she's not even close to where she could be. She's fantastic, and she's going to get better.
"Sanja, too. They're [defensively] kind of loading on her because she's got that presence, and she's helping her teammates by opening them up, so Brie and Chris are just hammering the ball."
Haggerty, a 6-1 senior who transferred to Washington from Ohio State, had the best hitting percentage (.474) of the night on 19 swings. Her rocket-powered kills, she figures, are part hard work and part genetics. Her brother, Luke, is a Class A minor-league pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization.
"My sister's arm is just as good, if not better," she said with a laugh. "I guess it just runs in the family. But really I don't think I hit harder than the next person."
Thompson, who Friday night became UW's all-time leader in assists, finished with 46 last night. Tomasevic, with six digs, became the fifth UW player to reach 1,000 career digs and the third to have both 1,000 digs and 1,000 kills.
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Post by bucky415 on Oct 2, 2005 19:32:05 GMT -5
I think Washington will lose a few games along the way in the Pac Ten, but Stanford is probably the only team that has a decent chance at beating them. Of course, if you pass poorly, you get mediocre pretty quickly. Unfortunately for the Huskies' opponents, they have a great libero and two big time all around hitters in Tomasevic and Morrison, so that makes it hard to see them taking a trip to Shanksville sometime this season.
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Post by vballmaniac40 on Oct 2, 2005 20:57:27 GMT -5
Hagerty Says... "My sister's arm is just as good, if not better," she said with a laugh. "I guess it just runs in the family. But really I don't think I hit harder than the next person." This is good to hear if you're a Gopher Fan!
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