Now it’s as much as the Huge Ten to maintain tempo with the ACC.
The ACC and its two-top-seeded groups, Pittsburgh and Louisville, grabbed spots Saturday within the NCAA volleyball nationwide semifinals and can play one another Thursday.
Sunday, the Huge Ten is assured at the least one place on the opposite facet of the bracket when Nebraska performs Wisconsin. However will the winner play one other Huge Ten crew in Penn State? Or the Huge East’s Creighton?
Pitt superior with a four-set win over Kentucky, whereas Louisville moved on by ousting one other ACC faculty, Stanford.
Lynn of Boca Raton, Florida, beat San Francisco State in 5 to win the NCAA Division II nationwide championship, and Bowling Inexperienced pulled off a reverse sweep and knocked out St. John’s to advance to the NIVC title match, the place it performs Arizona on Tuesday.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball At present:
NCAA Match Sunday
ABC saved the Sunday 3 p.m. Jap slot for Nebraska and the community couldn’t have requested for extra, for the reason that Huskers (32-2) play host to Wisconsin (26-6) in one of many fiercest rivalries — and one most people doubtless is aware of finest — within the faculty sport.
Nebraska swept each their conferences, 25-21, 25-22, 25-19 in Madison on November 1, and 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 on the identical Devaney Sports activities Middle ground. Nebraska leads the all-time sequence 22-14-1.
Then get a nap, as a result of at 8:30 p.m. Jap on ESPN, Penn State (32-2) performs host to Creighton (32-2). Penn State has gained 9 a row, Creighton 25, and the 2 packages have by no means performed one another.
Penn State’s two losses: It obtained swept at Pitt on September 18 and obtained swept at Wisconsin on November 9. Creighton’s two defeats: In 5 at Nebraska on September 10 and in 5 at Louisville on September 15. The Bluejays went 18-0 within the Huge East and gained each its convention tourney matches.
NCAA Match Saturday
PITT 3, KENTUCKY 0: Once they lastly obtained to the third set Saturday night, Pitt didn’t want any rallies or comebacks. No, the Panthers steamrolled visiting Kentucky to clinch a spot within the NCAA nationwide semifinals for the fourth 12 months in a row.
Will this be the 12 months that the top-seeded Panthers lastly make it to the NCAA Division I Volleyball Championship remaining match?
Kentucky (23-8) would possibly assume so after Pitt (33-1) swept 25-22, 25-23, 25-17 because the Panthers hit .500 within the third set with 14 kills and one error in 25 assaults. They’ve now gained 17 in a row.
ACC participant of the 12 months Olivia Babcock led Pitt with 13 kills and had only one second-set error in 32 swings to hit .375 and added an ace and three blocks. Bre Kelley had eight kills with one error in 14 assaults to hit .500 and had a dig and 5 blocks. Valeria Vazquez Gormez had seven kills and 4 digs, and
Torrey Stafford had six kills — together with the match winner — eight digs and a solo block. Setter Rachel Fairbanks had a kill in her solely strive, 31 assists, an ace, 5 digs and two blocks. Her crew hit .333.
Kentucky, which hit .167, obtained 22 kills from SEC participant of the 12 months Brooklyn DeLeye. She hit .325 and had an ace and two digs. Megan Wilson had seven kills, 5 digs and two blocks. Brooke Bultema had six kills, an help and two blocks, one solo. Erin Lamb had 4 kills however 5 errors and Jordyn Dailey had three kills and three errors and 4 blocks. Emma Grome had 37 assists, 5 digs and three blocks.
LOUISVILLE 3, STANFORD 1: Louisville (29-5) gained a fierce 22-25, 25-14, 28-26, 25-20 battle with Stanford (28-5), which misplaced in a regional remaining for the third 12 months in a row.
And Louisville will get to remain residence for the third weekend in a row. The Cardinals, who beat Chicago State and Northern Iowa within the downtown KFC Yum! Middle, then moved to Louisville’s Freedom Corridor for victories over Purdue and Stanford. Now they play Pitt in Yum! Middle on Thursday with an opportunity to grow to be the primary NCAA crew to win all six matches at residence.
Louisville obtained one other big-time match from Anna DeBeer, the hometown senior who got here up massive when she needed to, ending with 15 kills, her crew’s solely ace on a web dribbler, six digs and two blocks, one solo. The opposite exterior, Charitie Luper, had 13 kills, hit .346, and had an help, 13 digs and 4 blocks, one solo.
Sofia Maldonado Diaz, the switch from Arizona, had 12 kills with two errors in 26 assaults to hit .385. In two sweeps by Stanford final 12 months within the Pac-12, Maldonado Diaz had a mixed 14 kills and 12 errors for Arizona. She additionally had 4 digs and 7 blocks Saturday, one solo.
Cara Cresse had eight kills and hit .500 and had six blocks, and the opposite center, PK Kong, had six kills and 7 blocks, one solo.
Louisville hit .295 because it gained the rubber match with Stanford. They break up within the common season. The Cardinal, which hit .153, obtained 14 kills however 11 errors from Elia Rubin, who had an help, an ace, eight digs and 4 blocks. Ipar Kurt had 13 kills, a block and two digs and Sami Francis had 10 kills — 5 within the first set — and 5 blocks — two within the first set — one solo. Jordan Harvey had eight kills, three of Stanford’s 5 aces, eight digs and two blocks, one solo. Kami Miner had a kill, 46 assists, 4 digs and two blocks, one solo.
Lynn tops SF State for DII crown
Lynn (33-3), the No. 3 seed within the nationwide event, needed to regroup for the fifth set Saturday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to win the NCAA DII title with a 25-22, 25-22, 16-25, 16-25, 15-13 victory over seventh-seeded San Francisco State (26-7).
Lynn, which gained its first NCAA volleyball championship, obtained 17 kills from Samantha Wolf, who had an help and 13 digs. Maria Cecilia Pinho had 14 kills and hit .429 to go along with an help, a dig and 5 blocks. Fabia Gonzalez-Stanton had 12 kills, an help, a solo block and 25 digs. Isabella Gentile had 27 digs, six assists and two of the Preventing Knights’ 5 aces.
Tamiya Wilson led SF State with 21 kills, hitting .426, and had six digs and two blocks. Anastacia Garza had 17 kills, hit .483, and had an help and a block. Brianna DeBoer had 23 kills, six assists and two of the Gators’ 5 aces.
Reverse NIVC sweep for Bowling Inexperienced
Bowling Inexperienced ( 25-9) of the MAC pulled off a 19-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-17, 16-14 reverse sweep at St. John’s (24-13) of the Huge East to maneuver into the NIVC national-championship match.
The Falcons will play on the Huge 12’s Arizona (23-9), which has been ready for an opponent because it defeated Northern Colorado on Thursday.
Bowling Inexperienced, which had two reverse-sweeps victories earlier this season, obtained 17 kills and 9 blocks from Lauryn Hovey. She had two assists, two aces and three digs. Jessica Andrews had 10 kills, hit .474, and had two assists, a dig and 5 blocks, one solo. Jordan Newblatt had 10 kills, hit .364, and had an help, two digs and a block. Alexis Mettille additionally had 9 blocks and added six kills, an help, an ace and a dig. Lindsey LaPinta had 24 digs and 7 assists and Amanda Otten had 39 assists, 5 kills in seven errorless tries, 5 of her crew’s 12 aces, 4 digs and 5 blocks, one solo.
Erin Jones had 20 kills for St. John’s, hitting .359, and had seven assists, three aces, 14 digs and a block. Giorgia Walther had 13 kills, an help and two blocks.
