The Vegas Thrill made the primary Professional Volleyball Federation match in franchise historical past a memorable one with a five-set victory on the Omaha Supernovas on Wednesday evening.
In NCAA Division I-II males’s volleyball, No. 3 Hawai’i, No. 6 Ohio State and No. 7 UC Irvine the place among the many winners.
The recaps and high performances observe however first a take a look at Thursday’s males’s schedule, that features extra MPSF-Huge West matches when No. 12 Pepperdine goes to No. 17 UC Santa Barbara advert Concordia Irvine is house for No. 19 UC San Diego.
The MPSF’s BYU performs host to the NEC’s LIU.
Within the MIVA, McKendree goes to Quincy.
Daemen and visiting D’Youville play the primary NEC match of the season, EIVA’s NJIT is on the NEC’s Sacred Coronary heart and Fort Valley State of the SIAC is house for St. Andrews. Dominican has a house ECC match towards Mount St. Vincent, which is taking part in its season opener.
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A Thrill for Vegas
The remainder of the seven groups within the first-year league had already performed at the least one match earlier than the Vegas Thrill opened at Omaha with a 19-25, 25-23, 25-20, 18-25, 15-12 victory.
Every group had unlikely stars, rookies from groups that aren’t within the Energy 5.
Hannah Maddux, who performed final fall for South Alabama, led Vegas with 18 kills, three blocks, 11 digs and her group’s solely ace. Maddux, a proper aspect for South Alabama and a 2023 VolleyballMag.com honorable-mention All-American, received 5 of her kills in 16 errorless assaults within the fifth set.
Molly McCage, a freshman center on the 2012 Texas NCAA-championship group, had 14 kills and solely two errors in 32 assaults, 9 blocks — eight solo — and a dig. German national-teamer Saskia Hippe had 11 kills, 5 blocks — two solo — and 10 digs.
Gabby Gonzales, who had 10 digs, and Layne Van Buskirk had 9 kills every. Van Buskirk had one error in 23 swings, two digs and three blocks, one solo. 2016 Olympic setter Alisha Glass Childress, 35, had 46 assists, 16 digs, a block and two kills. Libero Kylie Murr had 28 digs and 5 assists.
Omaha, picked first by the coaches, dropped to 1-2 two days after it was introduced that coach Shelton Collier was moved changing into “an Advisor to the Group” and assistant Chook Kuhn was named interim head coach. Each the Supernovas’ losses had been in 5 units. Wednesday, earlier than an introduced crowd of 9,076 within the CHI Well being Heart, exterior Paige Briggs had 14 kills, two aces, a block and 19 digs. Briggs performed final fall for Western Kentucky and was a VolleyballMag.com third-team All-American. Briggs performed a lot of the Omaha sweep of San Diego final week when she subbed for injured Brooke Nuneviller, who didn’t play towards Vegas.
Jess Schaben-Lansman led the Supernovas in kills with 15 and had 14 digs and 6 blocks, two solo. Bethania De La Cruz added 13 kills, six of her group’s eight aces, six blocks and 7 digs. Tori Dixon had 5 kills, three digs and 6 blocks, two solo.
Setter Sydney Hilley had 40 assists and 20 digs and counterpart Natalia Valentin-Anderson had seven digs and 5 assists. Libero Kendall White had 12 digs and 5 assists.
The subsequent PVF match is Friday when the Grand Rapids Rise (1-0) play on the Atlanta Vibe (3-0).
NCAA males
Hawai’i (9-1) of the Huge West beat visiting No. 5 Stanford (7-2) of the MPSF 21-25, 25-15, 25-22, 25-12 behind a profession match from Alaka’i Todd. He had a career-high 17 kills, hitting .367, with a career-high 9 digs and three blocks, two solo. Spyros Chakas added 15 kills, additionally hit .367, and had 5 assists, an ace, two solo blocks and eight digs. Hawai’i hit .346 and had six aces and 10 serving errors.
Stanford, which hit .153 and had 5 aces and 15 errors, received 9 kills apiece from Kevin Lamp and Moses Wagner …
Hilir Henno had a career-high 29 kills as UC Irvine (6-3) of the Huge West battled to a 19-25, 25-22, 30-28, 27-25 victory over visiting No. 15 USC (7-4) of the MPSF. Henno, who had 4 errors in 44 swings to hit .568, had an help, a block and 7 digs. Maxim Grigoieve had a career-high 17 kills, hit .353, and had two aces, three blocks and 6 digs. Setter Brett Sheward had 56 assists, three blocks and 7 digs. His group hit .391 and had seven aces and 20 errors. USC misplaced regardless of hitting .422. The Trojans had 4 aces and 13 errors. Jack Deuchar led USC with 21 kills, hitting .500 to go along with an ace, two blocks and 6 digs. Dillon Klein had 14 kills, hit .440 and had 4 blcoks and 14 digs. Caleb Blanchette had a kill in his solely attempt, 49 assists, an ace, two blocks and 5 digs …
Ohio State (8-2, 2-0) swept visiting Lewis (7-4, 2-1) in a MIVA match that left the Buckeyes atop the early season standings. The Buckeyes gained 25-20, 25-21, 25-23 as Jacob Pasteur led with 17 of his group’s 37 kills. He had two errors in 24 assaults to hit .625 and had 4 aces, two blocks and three digs. Thomas Poole had eight digs and two assists and Noah Platfoot had a kill in his solely attempt, 30 assists, a block and 4 digs. His group hit .368 and had 5 aces and 15 errors. Lewis hit .259 and had two aces and 14 errors. The Flyers received 13 kills from Max Roquet, who hit .300 and had 4 digs and three blocks, one solo …
No. 16 CSUN (7-4) of the Huge West needed to go 4 to beat UC Merced. The Matadors hit .398 and Kyle Hobus had 14 kills, hitting .435, and had two assists, three digs and a block … Lindenwood (3-6) of the MIVA swept at unbiased Missouri S&T (4-5), hitting .429 … the ECC’s American Worldwide (1-8) misplaced to DIII Rivier (4-4), which received 14 kills every from Ryan Peace and Sokunbuth Ly.