There have been no upsets Sunday in NCAA Division I volleyball. The ACC leaders all gained and Minnesota needed to dig deep within the Large Ten.
Traces of the day: Kansas State’s Aliyah Carter — who’s from Iowa — had 32 kills in her workforce’s 25-21, 24-26, 25-23, 23-25, 22-20 Large 12 victory at Iowa State. She added an help, three aces, 9 digs and two blocks.
Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i had 28 kills in a five-set Large West win over CSUN to go together with an ace, 15 digs and three blocks, two solo.
Miami’s Flormarie Heredia Colon additionally had 28 kills within the Hurricanes’ five-set ACC loss at North Carolina. She hit .431 and had an ace, 12 digs and 4 blocks, two solo.
Reverse sweeps? In fact, together with No. 15 Minnesota pulling it off at Ohio State, North Alabama did it to visiting Queens and Japanese Kentucky did to visiting North Florida within the ASUN,
There are six matches Monday in NCAA Division I, 5 within the SWAC, together with first-place Florida A&M (18-6, 10-0) residence for Grambling. Second-place Bethune-Cookman (12-11, 9-2) is off, however Alabama State performs Prairie View, Alabama A&M performs Texas Southern, Jackson State performs Southern and Mississippi Valley performs Alcorn.
Within the WAC, Tarleton State goes to Abilene Christian.
Athletes Limitless — fully dominated by Brittany Abercrombie and Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia this season — had two matches Sunday and finishes its fourth of 5 weeks with two extra Monday.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
ACC: Louisville (17-3, 9-1) got here out of Dallas with a 25-14, 21-25, 25-20, 25-21 victory at SMU (15-6, 7-3) as Anna DeBeer had 16 kills, 15 digs and three blocks. Cara Cresse had 5 kills and 11 blocks and Elena Scott had 23 digs, two assists and an ace. SMU’s Naya Shime had 14 kills, two assists, an ace and 7 blocks, and Natalie Foster had eight kills, an ace and 11 blocks, one solo …
Prime-ranked Pittsburgh (19-1, 9-1) defeated visiting Notre Dame (9-10, 2-8) 25-14, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19 as Torrey Stafford had 19 kills and Olivia Babcock 15. Stafford hit .438 and had two aces and 14 digs …
No. 17 Georgia Tech (15-4, 7-3) beat visiting Wake Forest (12-9, 4-6) in 4 behind 19 kills from Bianca Bertolino, who hit .333 and had an help, three aces and 15 digs. Tamara Otene had 16 kills, however 12 errors, and added seven digs and two blocks …
No. 19 Florida State (15-5, 7-3) swept at Duke (8-13, 4-6) because the Seminoles hit .353. Audrey Koenig had 12 kills and hit .370 to go together with an help, an ace, 4 digs and two blocks …
No. 25 North Carolina (17-2, 9-1) dealt a 26-24, 23-25, 25-23, 22-25, 15-8 defeat to visiting Miami (14-7, 5-50 regardless of the efforts of the aforementioned Heredia Colon. UNC’s Mabrey Shaffmaster led her workforce with 25 kills, hitting .333, and had 4 aces and 9 digs …
Virginia (17-4, 7-3) held on for a 25-20, 25-14, 21-25, 21-25, 15-12 victory at Boston School (9-13, 2-8), which dropped to 1-3 in five-set ACC matches. Virginia’s Milan Gomillion had 24 digs, 4 assists and an ace and Elayna Duprey had 18 kills, 4 aces and 4 digs. BC’s Audrey Ross had 18 kills, a dig and two blocks … NC State (11-7, 6-4) swept 26-24, 26-24, 25-20 at Clemson (8-13, 0-10) … Syracuse (13-9, 1-9) broke its nine-match skid when the Orange rallied for a 21-25, 25-16, 21-25, 26-24, 15-13 victory over visiting Virginia Tech (7-13, 1-9). Ava Palm had 19 kills for Syracuse to go together with two aces, 10 digs and two blocks. VT’s Hailey Pearce had 21 kills, an help, three aces and 13 digs.
SEC: Missouri (15-5, 6-2) and AVCA No. 14 Kentucky (12-7, 6-2) closed the hole to at least one recreation behind idle Texas (12-4, 7-1).
Missouri gained its sixth in a row, 19-25, 25-18, 25-13, 24-26, 19-17 at Oklahoma (9-8, 3-6) as Jordan Ilief had 23 kills, an ace, six digs and three blocks, one solo, and Mychael Vernon had 17 kills, three aces, 11 digs and two blocks. Marina Crownover had two kills, 60 assists, an ace and 12 digs. OU’s Alexis Shelton had 23 kills, two aces, 11 digs and 4 blocks, one solo …
Kentucky swept 25-18, 26-24, 25-13 at Ole Miss (13-7, 3-5) as Brooklyn DeLeye had 17 kills, an help, an ace, 4 digs and a solo block. Ole Miss hit .038 …
South Carolina (12-6, 3-4) beat visiting Auburn (14-6, 4-5) in 4 as Riley Whitesides had 16 kills and Alayna Johnson 15 … Mississippi State (9-8, 3-5) swept visiting Arkansas (14-6, 4-4) … and Georgia (9-9, 3-5) beat visiting LSU (12-8, 4-5) in 4 regardless of 24 kills by Jurnee Robinson, who hit .354 and had three assists, two aces, 16 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Georgia’s Erykah Lovett had 18 kills, two assists, three aces, 14 digs and two blocks.
BIG TEN: Minnesota (14-6, 7-3) gained 16-25, 18-25, 25-22, 25-16, 15-10 at Ohio State (8-12, 1-9). Julia Hanson led with 21 kills and had an help, an ace, seven digs and two blocks. McKenna Wucherer had 11 kills, two assists, eight digs and 4 blocks. Melani Shaffmaster had 4 kills with one error in eight makes an attempt, 49 assists, eight digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Ohio State’s Emily Londot had 21 kills, two assists, an ace, 13 digs and 4 blocks … No. 12 Oregon (16-3, 8-2) swept visiting Rutgers (5-16, 0-10) as Mimi Colyer and Onye Ofoegbu had 12 kills every … Illinois (14-6, 6-4) gained in 4 at Iowa (9-13, 3-7) as Raina Terry had 18 kills — however 13 errors — to go together with two aces, 12 digs and 5 blocks … and Indiana (10-10, 3-7) swept visiting Northwestern (4-14, 2-8) behind 15 kills from Candela Alonso-Corcelles, who hit .323 and had 5 digs and three blocks.
AROUND THE NATION: In the one Large 12 match, Kansas State (7-11, 5-4) gained in 5 at Iowa State (9-10, 3-5), going extra time after which some within the fifth, as famous above. Ok-State fought off 5 match factors within the fifth. Along with Aliyah Carter’s career-high 32 kills, Shaylee Meyers had 13 and Meg Brown 12. Setter Izzi Szulczewski had 5 kills with one error in 10 tries, 56 assists, an ace, 14 digs and three blocks. Iowa State’s Lilly Wacholz had 17 kills, hit .484, and had three digs and two blocks, one solo …
Towson (18-4, 9-3), idle Charleston (17-7, 9-3), Delaware (13-6, 9-3) and Hofstra (13-8, 9-3) are tied for first within the CAA and N.C. A&T (13-7, 8-4) is a recreation again. Towson swept at Elon and Delaware gained in 5 at Hofstra regardless of 27 kills from Izadora Stedile, who hit .339 and had an help, 4 aces, 17 digs and 5 blocks. Within the different CAA match, UNC Wilmington gained in 5 at William & Mary …
In Florida Atlantic’s four-set American Athletic win at Charlotte, Valeria Rosado had 22 kills, hit .413 and had 11 digs. Isabelle Northam had 20 digs, six assists and three aces … Additionally within the AAC, Wichita State beat UAB in 4 and Morgan Stout had 22 kills, hit .450, and had an ace, a dig and 10 blocks … Rice (13-6, 8-2) and South Florida (12-9, 8-2) are tied for the AAC lead once more after Rice swept at Temple and USF misplaced in 5 at UTSA …
There have been two reverse sweeps within the three ASUN matches. Japanese Kentucky did it to North Florida, regardless of 26 kills by Amy Burkhardt. EKU’s Jose Schmitendorf had 33 digs and 11 assists. In North Alabama’s comeback in opposition to Queens, Audrey Small had 30 digs and 4 assists … Fairfield (13-10, 11-0) maintained its two-game lead within the MAAC with a sweep of visiting Marist because the Stags hit .333 and Allie Elliott and Mikayla Haut had 10 kills, an ace and 9 digs every … Quinnipiac saved its maintain on second as Elena Giacomini and Leilani-kai Giusta had 14 kills every in a sweep at Niagara … Howard (16-5, 9-0) saved its two-game MEAC lead with a sweep of N.C. Central as Rya McKinnon had 17 kills, hit .419 and had 5 digs … Within the Patriot League, Lehigh swept Lafayette and Kyleigh Brown had 27 digs, 5 assists and an ace … Jackson State hit .386 in a SWAC sweep of Alcorn as Jayden James had 10 kills with one error in 16 assaults, an help, six aces and 7 digs.
Athletes Limitless: It’s all Abercrombie and De La Cruz-Mejia
AU is a five-week season by which the groups change however the final purpose is to garner particular person factors. And it’s a two-person race.
Abercrombie leads with 3,465 factors. De La Cruz-Mejias is second at 3,266 and in third place, nearly a thousand factors again, is Claire Hoffman (2,384), who jumped six spots Sunday. She is intently adopted by Leketor Member-Meneh (2,342). Manami Kojima (2,335), the Japanese libero, is one good set away from entering into third place. However first and second are all however wrapped up.
Within the first match Sunday, Workforce De La Cruz-Mejía dominated Workforce Member-Meneh 75-52, successful the three units 25-14, 25-21, 25-17.
Willow Johnson, who’s in tenth place with 2,060 factors, led De La Cruz with 14 kills, hit .429, and 5 digs and a block. Member-Meneh led her personal workforce with 12 kills, an ace and eight digs.
Learn the first-match recap right here.
Within the nightcap, Workforce Abercrombie routed Workforce (Morgan) Hentz 77-53, successful the units 25-12, 27-25, 25-16. Abercrombie led her workforce with 18 kills, hitting .432, and had eight digs. Hoffman had 15 kills, hit .419, and had three assists, 11 digs and a solo block. Hentz had 18 digs and two assists and stands in sixth place with 2,286 factors.
Learn the second-match recap right here.