Fourth-ranked Stanford opened the ultimate season of the Pac-12 with a sweep Tuesday over beforehand unbeaten Cal, No. 18 Baylor swept Stephen F. Austin, there have been 5 Horizon League winners as that convention bought underway, and UNLV pulled off a reverse sweep to win its Mountain West opener.
The recaps and greatest performances observe, however first a take a look at Wednesday’s NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball schedule:
One of many nation’s fiercest and oldest rivalries performs the primary of its closing two matche within the Pac-12 — each groups transfer to the Huge Ten subsequent yr — when USC goes to UCLA. It is going to be the 121st assembly between them and might be seen on the Pac-12 Community at 7 p.m. Pacific.
The Huge 12 season will get after it with its first match, No. 20 Houston at No. 10 BYU as the 2 faculties meet for the primary time since 2010. It may be seen on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. Mountain. Facet word: BYU will get no breaks in its Huge 12 debut. After enjoying Houston, it entertains Baylor after which goes to No. 9 Texas for back-to-back matches.
Two of the three ranked ACC groups are in motion as No. 13 Georgia Tech goes to Clemson and No. 8 Pittsburgh entertains UMBC of America East.
The Huge Ten has two matches together with one ranked crew, No. 15 Penn State, which performs host to Rutgers. Illinois goes to Indiana. Each matches are on the Huge Ten Community.
There are two SEC matches as No. 14 Tennessee performs host to Missouri and Mississippi State goes to Texas A&M. The State-A&M match is on the SEC Community.
There are 23 matches on the Wednesday schedule and if a match will not be on a linear cable outlet, it’s being streamed. Need to watch? We’ve got the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing hyperlinks for any match that’s being proven in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
Stanford, Baylor win
Stanford beat a beforehand undefeated crew for the second straight match. Three days after pulling off the reverse sweep at Louisville, the Cardinal (8-2) opened Pac-12 play with a 25-19, 25-22, 25-19 victory at Cal (11-1) within the rivalry they name the Huge Spike. Stanford had three gamers with 9 kills every, Kendall Kipp, who had 5 blocks, Caite Baird and Sami Francis. Kami Miner had three kills in eight errorless tries, and had 35 assists, two digs and two blocks. Her crew hit .228. Cal, enjoying earlier than its largest crowd in years — 1,100-plus — hit .076, lowest in opposition to Stanford this season. Maggie Li had 10 kills …Â
Baylor (6-4) of the Huge 12 hit .449 and rolled to a 25-14, 25-15, 25-21 sweep of visiting Stephen F. Austin (11-3) of the WAC. Alicia Andrew had 10 kills in 10 errorless assaults, three blocks and 10 digs. Elise McGhee had 11 kills with two kills in 16 assaults, an help, an ace, two blocks and two digs. Kyndal Stowers had 10 kills with two errors in 22 assaults, two blocks and 7 digs.
Horizon LeagueÂ
Defending-champion Wright State (5-7) received in 4 at Robert Morris (3-9) by the scoreline of 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, 25-6. Megan Alders and Aaliyah Byers had 16 kills every and Callie Martin had 13 with one error in 16 assaults to go together with three blocks and 17 digs. …
Oakland (7-6) swept at Purdue Fort Wayne (5-8) as Patti Cesarini and Ainsley Guse had 9 kills every. LonDynn Betts of PFW, a hometown sophomore, had a career-high 31 digs and two assists … Northern Kentucky (6-6) received in 4 at Youngstown State (5-7) as Pleasure Banks had 21 kills, two assists, three blocks and 19 digs. YSU’s Josi Borun had 13 kills, 20 assists, an ace and 16 digs … Cleveland State (7-5) swept at IUPUI (6-6). Laken Voss had 10 kills, an help, two aces, a solo block and 4 digs … Additionally, Milwaukee (8-6) of the Horizon needed to go 5 to beat impartial Chicago State (7-4). Ari Miller had 17 kills and hit .405 to go together with an ace, three digs and eight blocks, two solo. Yanlis Feliz, the senior outdoors from the Dominican Republic, led Chicago State with the road of the day, 28 kills whereas hitting .304 to go together with 10 digs.
Across the nation
UNLV (9-4) beat visiting San Diego State (5-7) within the Mountain West season opener, getting back from 0-2 to win 21-25, 16-25, 25-20, 25-20, 15-13. UNLV, which has received 5 in a row, went on an 8-3 run to complete the third set and pulled away with a 7-3 burst to finish the fifth. 2022 Mountain West participant of the yr Isabel Martin had 21 kills, two assists, 4 of her crew’s 9 aces, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Gabrielle Arretche-Ramos had 15 kills, two blocks and three digs. Setter Arien Farard had 5 kills in 14 errorless tries, 30 assists, eight digs and a solo block. SDSU’s Madison Corf had 17 kills, hit .448, and had an help, an ace, two digs and three blocks, one solo …
CSU Bakersfield (5-8) received the Huge West season opener, beating visiting CSUN (2-10) in 5. Ava Palm had 18 kills with one error in 41 assaults to hit .415 within the 25-20, 20-25, 25-22, 24-26, 15-11 victory. She had two assists, two aces, 5 bloks and 16 digs …Â
Florida State (6-6) of the ACC hit .369 and swept visiting North Florida (6-7) of the ASUN as Maddie Snider led a balanced assault with 10 kills within the 25-21, 25-15, 25-19 victory. Snider had one error in 16 assaults …Â
Lipscomb (5-5) of the ASUN swept visiting Nashville rival Belmont (6-8) of the Ohio Valley. 5 Bisons had seven or extra kills, 10 by Courtney Jones … Â
ODU 8-6) of the Solar Belt beat visiting Liberty (7-5) of Convention USA in 5 as Myah Conway had 16 kills, an help, an ace, 5 blocks and 5 digs.Liberty’s Kate Phillips had 19 kills, an help, three blocks and 6 digs and Sydney Whitfield had 15 kills …
Howard (4-8) of the MEAC beat visiting American (6-5) of the Patriot League in 4 as Rya McKinnon had 21 kills, hit .318, and had an help, 4 of her crew’s 16 aces, a block and 6 digs …
Gardner-Webb (6-6) of the Huge South received in 4 at Queens (3-9), which is making its Division I transfer into the ASUN. G-W had 4 gamers with 9 or extra kills, 15 by Jenna Otts, who had an help, a dig and two blocks, one solo. Sophia Kotsovolos had 31 digs, 9 assists and an ace. Queens had 4 gamers with 10 or extra kills, 12 by Jordyn Johnson …Â
The Southland’s McNeese (3-11) beat visiting Louisiana-Monroe (4-10) of the Solar Belt 26-28, 25-23, 25-20, 28-26 as Carissa Chainey had 22 kills, hitting .367, to go together with six assists and 20 digs. Bailey Tillmand had 28 digs and three assists.
