Kentucky tops Texas A&M; high seeds take tourney victories; busy Friday forward

Kentucky, the No. 8 staff within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, beat Texas A&M to keep up its lead within the SEC.

Convention tournaments have been in full swing with few surprises and fairly a couple of groups calling it a season.

Line of the day: Mia Wesley of Southern Miss had 31 kills in a five-set Solar Belt Championship loss to Marshall. 

And there’s one other teaching opening.

The recaps and high performances comply with, however first a have a look at Friday’s NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball schedule.

Third-ranked Wisconsin, which has had six days off after dropping at Penn State, is at AVCA No. 16 Purdue. High-ranked Nebraska is house for Michigan, No. 15 Penn State is house for Michigan State, Maryland is at Indiana, Northwestern goes to Rutgers and Iowa is at Nebraska.

There are a few massive showdowns within the Huge 12. 

Oklahoma performs at Cincinnati and Texas Tech is at Kansas State. AVCA No. 17 Kansas is at VBM No. 13 BYU and AVCA No. 21 Houston is house for Iowa State.

There are six ACC matches, together with No. 10 Georgia Tech at Miami. Boston School is at Syracuse, Wake Forest is at Notre Dame, Clemson is at NC State and Duke goes to Virginia. Florida State performs impartial Chicago State. Fourth-ranked Louisville and No. 6 Pittsburgh are off earlier than they play on Saturday within the showcase match of the day.

The Pac-12 has a few key battles as No. 2 Stanford goes to UCLA and No. 5 Oregon goes to No. 16 Arizona State. No. 12 Washington State is at Colorado, AVCA No. 24 USC is house for Cal, Washington is at Utah and Oregon State is at Arizona.

The SEC has No. 9 Tennessee at LSU, AVCA No. 20 Florida at Missouri at South Carolina at Georgia.

No. 13 Creighton, tied with Marquette for the Huge East lead, is house for Xavier, which beat the Bluejays in September in 5, whereas Marquette is house for St. John’s. 

A handful of convention tournaments get underway and others proceed. 

The perfect place to maintain up is in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings. We have now the viewing hyperlink for each match that’s being proven.

CATS TOP A&M: Kentucky (16-7, 14-1 SEC) dispatched visiting Texas A&M (15-10, 7-8) for its thirteenth win in a row. 4 Wildcats had 12 or extra kills within the 25-17, 25-20, 24-26, 25-12 victory, 18 by Brooklyn DeLeye. She added an help, an ace and eidht digs. UK hit .280 because it constructed its result in a full recreation over idle Arkansas.

ASUN: The winners have been North Florida, Lipscomb, Kennesaw State and FGCU. 

High-seeded FGCU, which swept Bellarmine, performs Kennesaw State within the semifinals. KSU beat North Alabama. Second-seeded Lipscomb obtained previous Stetson in 5 and performs UNF, which beat Japanese Kentucky. 

FGCU hit .333 and had 4 gamers with seven or extra kills in its sweep together with 10 with no errors in 11 assaults by Juliana Lentz and 9 with no errors in 20 swings by Skylar English; Emma Schurfranz had 14 kills for Kennesaw State with one error in 26 assaults, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks; Meg Mersman had 23 kills for Lippy, hitting .365, and had two aces, six digs and 4 blocks, one solo; and UNF obtained 20 kills every from Kailey McKnight and Mahalia White. 

CAA: The semifinals are set after Campbell and Stony Brook superior. Campell, which swept Northeastern, performs second-seeded Delaware, whereas Stony Brook will get top-seeded Towson, the house staff, after beating School of Charleston in 4. Campbell obtained 14 kills from Chloe Cook dinner, who added two aces, two blocks and 9 digs. Stony Brook’s Kali Moore had 16 kills and Leoni Kunz 14. 

SOUTHLAND: The event obtained underway with two matches as Northwestern State swept Texas A&M and New Orleans beat UIW in 5. Friday, Northwestern performs HCU and UNO faces McNeese as top-seeded Southeastern Louisiana and second-seeded and host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi await for Saturday’s semifinals. Northwestern State’s Teresa Garza had 15 kills, hit .394 and had an help, an ace, two blocks and 10 digs. Ashlyn Svoboda had 22 digs, 4 assists and two aces. UNO, which gained 22-25, 28-26, 25-22, 20-25, 16-14, obtained 25 kills from Karen Cordero Barr, who added two aces and 14 digs. Allison Palmi and Kyla Malone had 20 kills every for UIW.

SUN BELT: A loaded quarterfinal area in Foley, Alabama, is ready with as many as 4 SBC groups eyeing NCAA Match berths. The winners Thursday have been Georgia Southern, Louisiana, Troy and Marshall. Friday’s matches, so as, have South Alabama (40 RPI), second within the West, vs. Georgia Southern; East winner Coastal Carolina vs. Louisiana; James Madison, second within the East and No. 19 within the NCAA RPI, vs. Troy; and West winner Texas State (RPI 39) vs. Marshall. 

Georgia Southern ousted Arkansas State in 4 as Jillian Grey had 17 kills, hit .405 and had three digs and 5 blocks. Louisiana swept Outdated Dominion, rallying from a 22-16 deficit to win the third set 27-25, Celeste Darling led the Ragin’ Cajuns with 18 kills, hitting .424, to go along with 4 blocks. Troy swept App State as Tori Hester had 17 kills with three errors in 29 assaults. She had an ace, 11 digs and a block. And Marshall beat Southern Miss in 5 regardless of 31 kills by Mia Wesley. She additionally had an help, 5 aces, 15 digs and two blocks, one solo. Marshall’s Olivia Fogo had 15 kills, 5 digs and two blocks.

WAC: Friday’s semifinals are set after Stephen F. Austin, Grand Canyon, UTRGV and Utah Valley gained. High-seeded SFA, which has gained 17 in a row, performs Utah Valley, whereas second-seeded GCU performs UTRGV. 

SFA needed to go 4 to get previous Abiliene Christian. Ielan Bradley led SFA with 17 kills, hit .318 and had seven blocks, one solo. GCU hit .366 and swept California Baptist as Tatum Parrot had 17 kills with one error in 27 assaults, two assists, seven digs and 4 blocks, one solo. UTRGV beat Tarleton State in 5 as Claudia Lupescu had 23 kills, hit .302 and had a solo block and 9 digs. Luanna Emiliano had two kills in three errorless tries, 53 assists, an ace, two blocks and 10 digs, and Kiaraliz Perez had 23 digs, 5 assists and an ace. Utah Valley ousted UT Arlington in 5 regardless of 20 kills by UTA’s Briann Ford, who had three blocks and 12 digs. Host Utah Valley’s Tori Ellis had 15 kills, hit .387 and had 4 blocks and two digs. Avery Shewell had 14 kills, hit .407 and had three aces, three blocks and 7 digs.

Across the nation

The race tightened within the Huge Sky as first-place Sacramento State misplaced in 5 at Montana State. The Hornets (12-3) now maintain a one-game lead over Montana State, Weber State and Northern Colorado. Montana State beat visiting Sacramento State 28-26, 25-27, 25-21, 18-25, 17-15 and stored the Hornets from clinching the regular-season title outright. Kira Thomsen led MSU with 23 kills, an help, two aces and 11 digs. Nellie Stevenson had two kills, 51 assists, three aces, three blocks and 7 digs … Weber State gained in 4 at Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado swept Idaho State …

The Ohio Valley winner was already determined however groups jockeyed for place Thursday because the common season ended. First-place Japanese Illinois needed to go 5 to beat Western Illinois as Ella Collins had 28 kills, hit .415 and had an help, 18 digs and a block … Southeast Missouri misplaced in 5 to Lindenwood however nonetheless held onto second place … 

Within the Mountain West, Utah State maintained its five-game lead with its thirteenth win in a row, a four-set victory at Fresno State. Shelby Capllonch led with 14 kills, three assists, 9 digs and two blocks, one solo. Colorado State held onto second place with a sweep of New Mexico as Annie Sullivan had 16 kills, hit .414 and had two digs. In Wyoming’s four-set win over Air Pressure, Paige Lauterwasser had 14 kills with one error in 26 swings. Boise State beat Nevada in 4 and Paige Bartsch had 17 kills, hit .438, and had an help, an ace, three blocks and 9 digs …

Pepperdine (18-7,14-1) had gained 17 in a row and already clinched the West Coast Convention, however the Waves have been kocked off in 5 at Pacific, which obtained 19 kills from Alexa Edwards and 18 from Biamba Kabengele, who had 5 aces, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Maui Robins had 22 kills, 10 digs, two assists and two blocks, one solo, in Portland’s five-set win at Gonzaga. LMU swept at Saint Mary’s as Michelle Shaffer had 14 kills, an ace and 9 digs. Santa Clara gained in 5 at San Francisco as Elena Radeff had 18 kills, an ace, 5 digs and 6 blocks, one solo …  

Florida Atlantic beat South Florida within the American Athletic as Valeria Rosado had 16 kills and Kalia Ru had 9 blocks, two solo.

OPENING AT SAINT PETER’S: Coach Joe Chojnaki has resigned after the Peacocks completed 0-30, 1-18 within the MAAC. This system has had winless seasons 4 instances, together with in 2016 and 2017. In 2022, the Peacocks went 1-31, 1-17 within the MAAC.