There have been three ranked groups in motion Thursday and, whereas all gained, No. 8 Kansas needed to go 5 to beat Kansas State and No. 11 Purdue needed to do the identical in opposition to UCLA. No. 22 Baylor swept Cincinnati.
South Dakota State (17-0) remained the lone unbeaten with a sweep at North Dakota State.
Reverse sweeps? Jap Michigan did it to visiting NIU within the MAC, the third reverse-sweep victory for the Eagles this season.
The NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball slate is full Friday, however there are few big-time matchups as we head into the center of the convention season.
Additionally on this version of Volleyball At this time, Athletes Limitless will get again to it in Mesa, Arizona, and we muster all of the digital hugs we are able to for Penn State coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, who shared on social media Thursday that she has breast most cancers.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
There are eight ACC matches, none pitting ranked groups. These embrace No. 1 Pittsburgh dwelling for Cal, No. 4 Louisville dwelling for Wake Forest, No. 17 Georgia Tech at Clemson and No. 19 Florida State at Boston Faculty. Additionally, North Carolina is at Virginia Tech, Miami is at Syracuse, NC State is at Notre Dame and Duke is at Virginia.
The Huge Ten has six matches with just one involving two ranked groups, and it’s a giant one for each as No. 12 Oregon goes to No 10 Wisconsin. Second-ranked Nebraska is at Michigan State, No. 3 Penn State is at Ohio State, No. 14 Minnesota is at Rutgers, No. 15 USC is at Maryland and Washington is at Michigan.
Just one ranked Huge 12 groups performs when No. 13 Arizona State is dwelling for Colorado. Texas Texas Tech is at Iowa State and Houston is at Arizona.
The SEC reveals No. 7 Texas dwelling for Arkansas, No. 23 Florida at Texas A&M, Ole Miss at South Carolina and Oklahoma at Georgia.
Sixth-ranked Creighton, which has gained eight in a row, has a Huge East match in opposition to visiting Xavier, and No. 21 Dayton, which has gained 10 in a row, has an Atlantic 10 match in opposition to visiting George Washington. Dayton is 7-0 within the A10 and GWU is tied for second with VCU at 5-2.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Kansas (15-1, 6-0) rallied to beat Huge 12 opponent Kansas State (6-10, 4-3) within the Sunflower Showdown 19-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-20, 15-10. Toyosi Onabanjo had 14 kills, hit .571, and added two assists, a dig and three blocks, one solo. Rhian Swanson had 12 kills and Reese Ptacek had 11 kills, hit .533, and had 11 blocks. Aliyah Carter led Ok-State with 15 kills, however had 13 errors … Within the different Huge 12 match, Baylor (11-6, 3-3) swept visiting Cincinnati (11-6, 2-4) as Elise McGhee had 13 kills, hit .345, and had 4 digs, and Allie Sczech had 11 kills with no errors in 22 assaults, 4 digs and 5 blocks, one solo …
In the one Huge Ten match, Purdue (14-4, 5-2) got here away with a 23-25, 27-25, 25-20, 19-25, 15-11 victory over visiting UCLA (8-8, 2-5) regardless of a career-high 29 kills from Cheridyn Leverette, who hit .480. It was probably the most kills by a UCLA participant since Mac Could had 39 at Washington State three years in the past. Purdue’s Eva Hudson had 24 kills, hit .393, and had 17 digs and three blocks. Raven Colvin had 17 kills, hit .556, and had an ace, three digs and 6 blocks, one solo. Taylor Anderson had a career-high seven kills with one error in 12 tries, 51 assists, an ace, 12 digs and 5 blocks, one solo …
South Dakota State (17-0, 6-0 Summit League) gained 25-23, 25-14, 25-18 at North Dakota State as Sylvie Zgonc had 15 kills, two help, three aces, a block and 6 digs. The Jackrabbits go to St. Thomas on Saturday … Additionally in The Summit, Omaha stayed a sport again with a five-set win at Denver as McKenna Ruch had 21 kills, hit .529, and had a dig and 10 blocks, two solo. Kali Jurgensmeier had 17 kills, two digs and 9 blocks, and Emily Huss, who had 4 kills with no errors in eight makes an attempt, had 9 blocks. Omaha had 20 blocks to Denver’s 9 …
There’s a five-way tie atop the MAC after Bowling Inexperienced knocked off , leaving these two, Toledo, Central Michigan and Jap Michgan all 6-2. In Bowling Inexperienced’s sweep at Buffalo, 5 gamers had 5 or extra kills, seven every by Lauryn Hovey, Alexis Mettille and Mia Tyler. Mettille had no errors in 10 swings and 5 blocks, one solo … Toledo gained in 4 at Akron and Taylor Alt had 20 kills, hit .359, and had an help, six digs and a block … In EMU’s five-set win over visiting NIU, Abby Stanford had 18 kills, hit .533, and had two digs and three blocks. It was the third time this season Jap Michigan has gained after shedding the primary two units … Central Michigan swept Western Michigan as Grace Thomas had 16 kills with no errors in 24 assaults to hit .667 and had two digs and a block …
UT Arlington (17-2, 7-0) constructed its WAC result in two video games with a sweep of visiting Grand Canyon (12-6, 5-2). The Mavs, who’ve gained eight in a row, obtained 19 kills from Brianna Ford, who hit .318 and had 4 blocks and 5 digs. Mollie Clean had two kills in 5 errorless tries, 39 assists, two blocks and 12 digs. Her workforce hit .337, whereas GCU hit .069 … Tarleton State’s Tatum Busch had 23 kills and Allison Bryant 20 of their workforce’s five-set WAC win at California Baptist. Bryant had an help, an ace, 22 digs and two blocks, one solo. CBU’s Nicole Mauser had 23 kills, hit .408, and had two digs and two blocks … Seattle U obtained 18 kills from Arianna Bilby in its sweep of Southern Utah. She hit .455 and had an help, 15 digs and two blocks …
Washington State pulled a half sport forward of idle LMU within the WCC with a four-set win over visiting Oregon State as Sage Brustad had 19 kill, an help and 6 digs … San Francisco and Pepperdine are tied with LMU after USF swept Gonzaga and Pepperdine beat Saint Mary’s in 4. Pepperdine’s Birdie Hendrickson had 25 kills, hit .380 and had 21 digs and three blocks. Riley Simpson added 15 kills in 28 errorless assaults, 4 digs and three blocks …
All 4 Huge Sky matches had been sweeps, together with first-place Northern Colorado beating visiting Montana State … Cal Poly, which swept UC Santa Barbara, and UC Davis, which gained in 4 at CSU Bakersfield, stay tied atop the Huge West. Olivia Utterback led UC Davis with 16 kills, three assists, an ace, 14 digs and a block …
Colorado State and Fresno State are tied for the Mountain West lead after CSU misplaced in 5 at San Diego State and Fresno swept at Air Pressure. Each Fresno State’s Talea Mitchell and Colorado State’s Mayala Jones had 24 kills. Jones hit .347 and had two digs and 4 blocks. Jones had two assists, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks …
Crimson-hot Southeastern Louisiana (16-4, 8-0) gained its sixteenth match in a row to keep up its one-game Southland Convention lead over Stephen F. Austin (15-5. 7-0). SLU swept at Lamar because the Lions hit .333 and Cicily Hidalgo had 13 kills, two aces, three digs and a solo block. SFA hit .466 and swept visiting New Orleans. SFA had 41 kills with seven errors in 73 assaults. Kyanna Creecy had 11 kills in as many swings and 5 blocks, and Izabella Ortiz had 11 kills with one error in 14 assaults … South Alabama gained its Solar Belt match in 4 at Southern Miss as Briana Wilson had 26 digs, seven assists and an ace.
Athletes Limitless enters third week
The third week of the five-week Athletes Limitless professional volleyball season will get underway Friday in Mesa, Arizona, when Crew (Leketor) Member-Meneh performs Crew (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejia at 8 p.m. Jap, adopted by Crew (Brittany) Abercrombie vs. Crew (Dani) Drews. Each matches might be seen on Bally Sports activities regional networks and Volleyball World TV.
The 4 captains are the 4 high gamers on the leaderboard in a season wherein particular person factors are paramount. Abercrombie, the previous USC standout, leads with 2,075 factors. De La Cruz-Mejia, the Dominican Republic Olympian, is second at 1,921. Member-Meneh, who completed her NCAA profession at Pittsburgh, had 1,430. Drews, the previous nice at Utah, has 1,383.
Click on right here for the full leaderboard.
And click on right here to see the schedule and 4 rosters for this week.
Motion continues on Sunday and Monday nights.
From Penn State’s Katie Schumacher-Cawley:
I wish to take a second to share one thing deeply private with all of you. Lately, I used to be recognized with breast most cancers. This information has been rather a lot to course of, and as you’ll be able to think about, it has introduced a variety of feelings. However I’m approaching this with energy, willpower, and an unwavering sense of hope. We are going to draw inspiration from the many individuals in our lives which have battled most cancers and have emerged victorious.
I’m extremely lucky to have a tremendous assist system in my household, workforce, associates, my Penn State household, and an unimaginable medical workforce. Their encouragement and love give me the braveness to face the highway forward with a constructive outlook. I do know this journey can have its challenges, however I additionally know that with the care and energy of these round me, I’m prepared to fulfill it head-on. I additionally wish to take a second to acknowledge and thank the men and women who’ve gone by this earlier than me. The energy, braveness, and willpower you’ve proven haven’t solely been inspiring, however you have got additionally helped advance the unimaginable progress we see in drugs at present. Your journeys have paved the best way for higher remedies and outcomes, and I’m deeply grateful for that. You’ve got and can proceed to assist those that are simply beginning this battle, like myself. Your resilience is making a distinction day by day.
As I start this course of, I ask on your understanding, compassion, and persistence. My focus will likely be on my household, my workforce, and naturally, my well being and restoration. It’s enterprise as regular at Rec Corridor. I’ve probably the most superb employees that doesn’t skip a beat.
Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart on your love and assist. I’m grateful for the kindness and energy of the Penn State group and Athletic Director Pat Kraft and his management employees for his or her unwavering assist for me, my household and our workforce. It’s actually a blessing, and it demonstrates why Penn State is a particular place.
As we transfer forward, I ask that you just please respect the privateness of this private journey for my household. We would like the main focus of the following a number of weeks and months to be on the workforce, their season and the unimaginable issues they do as inspiring girls within the classroom and on the court docket.
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