Friday Night Recap (Warriors and Wahine)

Wahine Sweep

Recap | Box Score

The Rainbow Wahine completed the season sweep against Cal Poly tonight 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-19) in San Luis Obispo. Going back on the road for the first time since the back-to-back road loses at Northridge and Davis left a few fans worried about this road trip.

But the Wahine improved its passing and set distribution to contribute to this win. Freshman opposite Nikki Taylor led the Bows with 12 kills and had five digs in her first match playing all the way around for an entire match. She also received her first career ace along with three blocks. Sophomore outside Tai Manu-Olevau also had 11 kills and two good blocks. After Emily Hartong has been taking a majority of the swings this season, tonight was more evenly spread out as Taylor and Manu-Olevau had 24 swings each and Hartong had less with 22. On the night Hartong had nine kills, 11 digs, and an ace which she received after switching to a standing float serve for the first time this season. Senior libero Ali Longo had a match high 12 digs and junior defensive specialist Sarah Mendoza had three digs in her new spot at middle back.

The team travels to Santa Barbara to take on the Gauchos and get revenge for their lose in Honolulu last month. There is no live stream for this event (according to Bigwest.tv) but there is live stats and audio available on ESPN1420 with commentary from Tiff Wells. [EDIT] Bigwest.tv has updated the Saturday matches for volleyball and lists a live stream for Hawaii vs. UCSB.

Warrior Road Trip

The Warriors entered in their first fall tournament before the upcoming 2014 season in Southern California. This tournament features ten MPSF teams and two others and is hosted by USC. Matches started today and UH was supposed to be represented with two teams to compete against opponents. But senior setter Joby Ramos sprained his ankle leaving the only other setter, freshman Jennings Franciskovic to run the offense and now only one team was available to represent UH. Head coach Charlie Wade called in on ESPN1420 this morning saying that they had to reschedule everything now that there would only be one Hawaii team. I am sure he wanted two teams to get all the players a chance to get in and have some playing experience.

The schedule for Friday was with matches against USC and UCLA. Men's volleyball blog "Off the Block" posted results from the preseason tournament but with no scores. However the UCLA Men's Volleyball twitter posted a few score updates throughout the match but did not mention any UH players that played. HBA alumni Michael Fisher ('13) played against UH in this match. I believe the layout for today was all matches will go to three sets, no matter what the outcome was of the first and second set. The first two sets were to 25 and the third to 15. [EDIT] USC posted the results on there athletics page.

Friday Scores:
- USC defeats Hawaii (2-1) 25-20, 20-25, 15-11
- UCLA defeats Hawaii (2-1) 25-17, 25-20, 10-15

The schedule for the Saturday matches is this:
- Hawaii vs. Pepperdine (1:15 PM PT/11:15 AM HT)
- Hawaii vs. UCSB (3:00 PM PT/1:00 PM HT)

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