Unranked Xavier beat Creighton for the primary time, knocking off the No. 11 Bluejays in 5 Saturday within the Massive East. It was Xavier’s first win over a ranked group since 2007.
In the one matchup between ranked groups, No. 10 BYU blasted visiting No. 18 Baylor of their Massive 12 match.
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— Coastal Carolina’s Jasmine Rivest had 36 kills, 17 digs and three blocks — two solo — in a five-set Solar Belt win at Georgia State.
— Evansville’s Giulia Cardona had 36 kills, 11 digs, and a block in a four-set Missouri Valley win at Belmont.
The recaps and high performances comply with, however first a have a look at Sunday’s key NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball matches.
Saturday was an off day for the ACC, Massive Ten, Pac-12 and SEC and all 4 leagues are out in drive Sunday.
There are seven ACC matches, together with No. 5 Louisville dwelling for Boston School, No. 8 Pittsburgh at North Carolina and No. 13 Georgia Tech dwelling for NC State. GT is 10-1 and NC State is 11-1.
The Massive Ten additionally has seven matches, together with top-ranked Wisconsin dwelling for Indiana, No. 2 Nebraska dwelling for Minnesota, No. 15 Penn State at Northwestern, No. 19 Purdue at Rutgers and No. 21 Ohio State at Iowa.
Within the Pac-12 the six-match slate has No. 4 Stanford at Colorado, No. 6 Oregon at UCLA and unranked however unbeaten Arizona State dwelling for No. 7 Washington State.
The SEC additionally has six matches, with No. 3 Florida dwelling for Georgia, No. 14 Tennessee at No. 22 Kentucky, No. 16 Arkansas dwelling for Texas A&M and No. 24 Auburn dwelling for Ole Miss.
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BIG 12: BYU (13-1, 2-0) cruised to a 25-17, 25-17, 25-15 victory over visiting Baylor (6-5, 0-1) because the Cougars hit .378. Erin Livingston had 13 kills, hit .348 and aded an ace, a block and a dig. Whitney McEwan-Llarenas had seven kills in 13 errorless assaults, an ace and eight blocks. Whitney Bower, who had three kills in six errorless tries, had 31 assists, three blocks and 4 digs. Baylor, which hit .121, acquired eight kills every from Elise McGhee and Allie Sczech …
Ninth-ranked Texas (7-3, 2-0) swept for the second straight day at Oklahoma (6-5, 0-2) because the Longhorns hit .338 within the 25-22, 25-13, 25-12 victory. Madisen Skinner led with 11 kills and 6 teammates had kills, seven by Jenna Wenaas with one error in 20 assaults. Oklahoma hit .090 …
Visiting No. 17 Kansas (10-2, 1-1), which misplaced in 5 to Texas Tech (8-6, 1-1) the day earlier than, swept the Pink Raiders 26-24, 25-19, 25-14. Reagan Cooper had 13 kills, hitting .478.
BIG WIN FOR XAVIER: Xavier (9-4, 2-0 Massive East) got here with a 21-25, 25-21, 17-25, 25-20, 15-10 victory over visiting Creighton (10-3, 1-1). Emma Grace led with 15 kills, 5 of her group’s 9 aces, 9 digs and three blocks, two solo. Anna Taylor had 12 kills, hit .345, and had an help and 4 blocks. Delaney Hogan had 11 kills, an help, six blocks and 4 digs. Stevie Wolf had 25 digs, an help and a dig and Lucia Corsaro had 21 digs, three assists and two aces. Creighton’s Ava Martin had 21 kills, two assists, a block and 16 digs, and Kiana Schmitt had 14 kills, hit .375 and had three blocks and three digs …
Additionally within the Massive East, St. John’s hit .371 in a sweep of Windfall as Magda Stambrowska had 12 kills in 13 errorless assaults and two blocks … Aubrey Hamilton had 12 kills in 20 errorless swings for Marquette in its sweep of Georgetown. She added two assists, 4 digs and two blocks … And DePaul acquired 24 kills from Audrey Klemp and Jill Pressly, who had 4 errors in 48 assaults and hit .408 to go along with 16 digs in a five-set win over Villanova. Klemp had 5 blocks and Pressly 4, one solo.
Across the nation
No. 23 Dayton (13-2, 2-0) swept its Atlantic 10 match at Loyola Chicago (2-11, 0-2) as Lexie Almodovar had 16 kills, two assists, a block and 11 digs, and Taylor Russell had 14 kills with two errors in 31 assaults, 4 aces, a block and a dig …
No. 25 Western Kentucky (12-4, 2-0 Convention USA) swept visiting UTEP (8-5, 0-2) 27-25, 25-13, 25-14. Paige Briggs had 13 kills, an ace and 11 digs. UTEP hit .024 … Additionally in C-USA, Jacksonville State swept visiting Sam Houston as Morgan McClure had 14 kills in 21 errorless assaults to go along with two digs and three blocks …
Coastal Carolina’s Jasmine Rivest, a senior exterior from Montreal, had 36 kills with eight errors in 71 assaults to hit .394 in a five-set Solar Belt Convention win at Georgia State. Rivest added 17 digs and three blocks, two solo. Jalyn Stout had 17 kills, 13 assists, two blocks and 14 digs …
Evansville’s Guilia Cardona, a junior exterior from Argentina, who had 32 kills in a match earlier this season, had a career-high 36 with six errors in 81 assaults to hit .370 in a four-set win at Belmont. Cardona a block and 11 digs. Additionally within the Valley, Darci Metzger had 22 kills and hit .425 for Murray State in its four-set Missouri Valley win over Indiana State. She had an help, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks, one solo …
Boise State beat Wyoming in 4 and Paige Bartsch had a career-high 30 kills, an help, three aces, 10 digs and a block within the Mountain West match … Additionally within the MW, Utah State beat Colorado State in 4 and Shelby Capilonch had 18 kills with two errors in 36 assaults to hit .444 and added two assists, eight digs and a block …
The Citadel is now 14-0 — considered one of solely 4 unbeatens with Wisconsin, Nebraska and Arizona State — after sweeping at Samford, profitable the SoCon match 30-28, 25-21, 25-18. Ali Ruffin led with 19 kills, hit .312, 11 digs and three blocks … Additionally within the SoCon, Furman improved to 11-2 with a reverse sweep at winless ETSU. It marked victory No. 400 for Twenty fourth-year coach Michelle Younger. Mary Beth Headley and Lauren Haynes had 15 kills every within the 23-25, 15-25, 25-20, 27-25, 15-4 win …
Pepperdine beat visiting Loyola Marymount in 4 of their West Coast Convention rivarly for its fifth win in a row to enhance to 6-6 general, 2-0 WCC. Grace Chillingsworth had 15 kills, two assists, two blocks and 6 digs …
Rice got here away with a 28-26, 20-25, 24-26, 29-27, 15-9 comeback American Athletic victory at Tulsa … Additionally within the AAC, SMU beat UTSA in 4 as Emma Clothier had 17 kills with two errors in 26 assaults, two aces, a dig and 7 blocks … Jap Kentucky is 12-2 after beating Kennesaw State in 5 as Emma Schurfranz had 17 kills, three aces and 9 blocks, one solo within the ASUN victory …
Sacramento State broke a 9-9 tie and scored the final six factors to win its Massive Sky match in 5 at Weber State as Kalani Hayes had 13 kills, hit .385, and had a career-high 12 blocks, two solo … Hofstra retains on rolling. The Delight at the moment are 13-1 after profitable in 4 at Northeastern as Clara Bal had 20 kills and hit .405 within the CAA victory … In N.C A&T’s CAA sweep of Hampton, Naiya Sawtelle had 21 kills, hit .516 and added an help, 5 aces, 11 digs and two blocks … In Wright State’s Horizon sweep of Northern Kentucky, Callie Martin had 19 kills with one error in 37 assaults, three assists two aces, 17 digs and two blocks … Milwaukee’s Ari Miller had 13 kills with no errors in 20 swings in her group’s HL sweep of Purdue Fort Wayne to go along with an ace and 5 blocks …
Canisius swept Manhattan and Kara Zaucha had 10 kills with one error in 18 assaults within the MAAC win to go along with three aces, 11 digs and 4 blocks … Hannah Webber had 19 kills and hit .444 for Merrimack in a four-set NEC win over Le Moyne … Jayla Holcombe had 23 kills, seven digs and 4 blocks for Tennessee State in a five-set OVC win over Tennessee Tech … Additionally within the OVC, Jap Illinois improved to 13-1 with a four-set win at UT Martin. Natalie Mitchem had 13 kills in 25 errorless assaults and 4 blocks … Lindenwood gained its OVC match in 4 over SIUE and Addy McAleer had 23 kills, two assists, two aces, six digs and two blocks, one solo …
Odyssey Warren had 26 kills for Kansas Metropolis in its five-set Summit League win over South Dakota. She had two assists, an ace, 17 digs and a block … Texas A&M-Commerce beat Lamar in 5 within the Southland and Jade Smith had 31 digs and 4 assists … Additionally within the Southland, Southeastern Louisiana swept at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Cicily Hidalgo had 14 kills with one error in 32 assaults, two assists, 11 digs and two blocks, one solo.
MONDAY: There 4 matches on the schedule, two within the SWAC when Arkanasas-Pine Bluff goes to Texas Southern and Southern is at Alcorn State. Within the WAC, UT Arlington is at Stephen F. Austin and the Missouri Valley’s Evansville performs host to impartial Chicago State.