Professional Ladies
October 22, 2024
With two weeks left within the five-week season, Brittany Abercrombie and Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia are operating away from the sector in Athletes Limitless Volleyball. They usually’ll be captains once more in week 4 together with Morgan Hentz and Leketor Member-Meneh. A recap of Monday’s motion follows.
So does a brief report on NCAA Division volleyball, which had 5 matches Monday, together with No. 13 Arizona State sweeping a non-conference match with Grand Canyon.
We’ve bought a take a look at Tuesday’s schedule and the AVCA prime 25.
And likewise on this version of Volleyball At the moment we’ve got our weekly replace on USA ladies enjoying professionally in different nations.
Abercrombie, De La Cruz-Mejia keep AU Volleyball leads
Brittany Abercrombie leads the standings with 2,914 factors after Monday’s conclusion of the third week of play. Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia follows with 2,709, and libero Morgan Hentz vaulted 4 spots into third and has 2,021. These 4 and Leketor Member-Meneh will likely be subsequent week’s captains for matches Friday, Sunday and Monday.
Within the opener Monday in Mesa, Arizona, Workforce Member-Meneh beat Workforce (Dani) Drews 76-59. Madi Kingdon Rishel led Member-Meneh with 14 kills, an ace, 15 digs and two solo blocks. Kayla Haneline had 9 kills with no errors in 14 assaults, an ace, a dig and 7 solo blocks.
Learn the first match recap right here.
Within the nightcap, a battle between the leaders noticed Abercrombie come out forward 75-72 after the groups tied 70-70. Abercrombie gained the primary two units, 25-21, 26-24, however De La Cruz-Mejia gained the third 25-19, establishing a first-to-five tiebreaker. Abercrombie led her staff with 19 kills, 4 digs and two solo blocks. Temi Thomas-Ailara had 14 kills, hit .385, and had seven digs and a solo block. De La Cruz led her squad with 19 kills, an help, an ace, seven digs and a block.
Learn the second match recap right here.
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
There are 14 Division I matches Tuesday together with the one unbeaten staff left, South Dakota State. The 18-0 Jackrabbits put their 7-0 Summit League file on the road at dwelling towards South Dakota (16-11, 5-2). The staff SDSU performs subsequent, Denver (8-90, 3-4), is dwelling for Oral Roberts ((4-16, 2-5). North Dakota State (7-9, 3-4) is at North Dakota (8-10, 1-6) and Kansas Metropolis (3-15, 1-6) is at Omaha (8-10, 6-1).
There’s MACtion, the place three groups are tied on the prime of the standings at 7-2, Central Michigan, Bowling Inexperienced and Buffalo, and Toledo and Jap Michigan are a sport again. Buffalo is dwelling for Akron, Kent State is at Ohio and NIU is at Western Michigan.
The lone Huge West match has Hawai’i at CSU Bakersfield.
Within the Southland, Stephen F. Austin is dwelling for Lamar, whereas Nicholls heads up the bayou to play at Southern of the SWAC in Baton Rouge.
The lone OVC match has Southern Indiana at UT Martin, within the Mountain West, UNLV is at San Diego State and in Convention USA, Center Tennessee is at UNC Asheville.
Milwaukee of the Horizon League goes throughout city to play at Marquette of the Huge East, final out of the AVCA prime 25.
NCAA volleyball Monday
Arizona State gained its seventh match in a row and improved to 19-2 because the Huge 12’s Solar Devils swept visiting Grand Canyon (13-7) of the WAC. Shania Cromartie had 13 kills, hit .400, and had two assists and 6 digs. Geli Cyr had 12 kills, an help, an ace and 12 digs and Argentina Ung had 5 kills, 33 assists, seven digs and three blocks, one solo. GCU’s Ashley Lifgren had 11 kills, 10 digs and two blocks within the first assembly between the Phoenix-area colleges in 34 years …
Indiana State (4-17, 1-8) broke via into the convention win column in the one Missouri Valley match of the day, a 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 sweep of visiting Evansville (4-17, 3-6). Curry Kendall had an enormous night time with 19 kills and only one error in 34 assaults to hit .529 and added three assists, 14 digs and two blocks, one solo. NCAA kills chief Giulia Cardona, the Evansville Argentian, added 26 extra — her teammates totaled 16 — hitting .314 with 12 digs and three blocks. She has 455 kills, effectively forward of Binghamton’s Tsveteline Ilieva, who had 390 …
Utah Tech (11-7, 5-3) gained the one WAC match in 4 over visiting Southern Utah (8-11, 4-4) as Kennedi Knudsen had 15 kills, 12 digs and 4 blocks, and Tessa Treanor had 12 kills, hit .346, and had three aces and 12 digs. Mya Laufiso had 4 aces, 4 assists and 9 digs. SUU’s Finley Charapata had 15 kills, 5 aces and eight digs …
There have been two SWAC matches asGrambling (7-13, 4-5) swept Mississippi Valley State (3-12, 2-5) and Jackson State (10-9, 6-3) did the identical to Arkansas-Pine Bluff (3-20, 1-8).
AVCA prime 25
There are some minor variations from our VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, the place we’ve got Creighton at No. 5 and Stanford at 6. These groups are flip-flopped within the AVCA’s rating, the place the highest seven groups stayed precisely the identical this week.
No. 1 Pittsburgh bought 50 first-place votes, No. 2 Nebraska bought 10 and No. 3 Penn State bought one.
North Carolina moved in for the primary time, taking spot 25. Auburn dropped out. Eleven different groups bought votes.
Click on right here to see the whole AVCA Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Ballot.
American ladies enjoying internationally
Many USA stars have determined to remain dwelling and can play for LOVB and/or the Professional Volleyball Federation, however loads of former NCAA standouts proceed to go overseas.
In Italy, Simone Lee had 10 kills and hit .533 with a block for Vallefoglia in a sweep of Busto Arzio … Khalia Lanier had seven kills, two aces and a block as Conegliano (4-0) stayed unbeaten with a four-set win over Roma … Avery Skinner had 10 kills and an ace in a five-set win over Firenze … and Lindsey Ruddins and Scandicci gained their third match in a row by sweeping Perugia. Ruddins had eight kills and hit .389 …
In Türkiye, Julia Sangiacomo had a season-high 15 kills, hitting .355, however SigortaShop fell to defending champions Fenerbahce. Micaya White had 4 kills and two aces … Eczacibasi swept Sariyera and Dana Rettke had eight kills, hitting .438, and a block …
In Japan, Kash Williams and PFU Blue Cats beat Aranmare twice. Williams had 26 kills and two blocks within the two matches mixed … In a battle of Minnesota alums, Airi Miyabe’s Himeji took two five-set battles from Stephanie Samedy’s Hisamitsu Springs. Miyabe was named MVP within the first match with 14 kills, 4 blocks and an ace. Samedy countered with 16 kills. Within the rematch Samedy had 24 kills, 4 aces and one block and Miyabe had 14 kills and two blocks … Mac Could had 14 kills a block and Brionne Butler had 11 kills, a block and an ace as Astemo Rivale beat Okayama. Okayama gained the rematch at Butler had 9 kills and two blocks and Could seven kills and a block …
In Germany, her staff is 0-5 however Erfurt’s Kira Thomsen had 12 kills, two blocks and an ace is a loss to Munster … Madelyn Robinson offered a key enhance off the bench as Stuttgart (4-0) gained a five-set battle over Schwerin in a rematch of final 12 months’s last. Robinson had 10 kills, hitting .381. Breland Morrissette added two kills and three blocks. Jaelyn Keene had six kills and 4 aces for Schwerin … Danielle Harbin had 21 kills hit .415, and had two aces as Potsdam beat Suhl in 5. Sabrina Starks had 10 kills, hitting .769, and added 5 blocks and an ace, and Eleanor Holthaus had 15 kills and two blocks …
In France, Lauren Matthews had 17 kills and 4 blocks in a five-set win by Cannes over Bordeaux … Lexi Hadrych had 18 kills, a block and an ace as TFOC beat Beziers in 5. Amelia Moore had seven kills, 4 blocks and an ace as a sub for Beziers … Nantes beat final season’s champion Paris SC in a rematch of the finals as Haylie Bennett had 9 kills and three blocks and Jess Robinson had six kills, three blocks and an ace. Setter Ella Could Powell had three kills and three aces … Morgahn Fingall’s 19 kills and a block weren’t sufficient as Volero Le Cannet fell to Venelles in 4 units … Breana Runnels led Nancy to a sweep of Marcq en Baroeul with 9 kills, 4 aces and three blocks … Katelyn Evans and Annayka Legros helped Mulhouse to a five-set win over Quimper. Evans had 13 kills, three blocks, and an ace and Legros added 10 kills, 4 blocks and an ace.
In Brazil, Claudia Dillion had a match-high 18 factors in her Superliga debut however Pinheiros misplaced to Fluminense in 4 …
And in Switzerland, NUC Viteos gained the Swiss Tremendous Cup by sweeping Dudingen. Caroline Meuth was prime scorer for NUC with 11 kills, hitting .625, and had a block. Tia Scambray added 10 kills and a block. Gloria Mutiri had six kills and two blocks and Raevan Chase added 4 kills and three aces.
