Volleyball Today: Rough-and-tumble AVP into semis; best of NCAA Saturday

The AVP received extra attention-grabbing Saturday and the NCAA volleyball slate was full, with one other massive slate on faucet Sunday.

WWE/AVP

Sunday’s AVP semis are set, however not earlier than a double red-card state of affairs for Chase Budinger and Trevor Crabb in Saturday’s AVP Chicago Open:

Simply one other day on the seaside. Listed below are Sunday’s matchups:

Fourth-seeded Budinger and Miles Evans vs. third-seeded Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander and ninth-seeded Tim Bomgren and Troy Discipline vs. second-seeded Andy Benesh and Miles Partain.

On the ladies’s facet, top-seeded Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss play second-seeded Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes in a battle of USA Olympians, and sixth-seeded Rodriguez (a teammate of Kloth and Nuss after they had been at LSU) vs. third-seeded  Canadian Olympians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson.

Within the red-card match, Budinger and Evans beat Crabb and Theo Brunner 19-21, 22-20, 15-12 to ship them to the contenders bracket. They had been bounced by Bomgren-Discipline 21-23, 24-22, 15-12.

Click on right here for the AVP brackets for all of the Saturday outcomes: https://avp.com/brackets/  

The semifinals shall be streamed on BallyLIVE and the finals reveals on CW.

NCAA girls

It’s an enormous day right here in Milwaukee, the place No. 1 Texas, the two-time defending champion, performs No. 3 Wisconsin at 11:30 a.m. Central on Fox after which No. 18 Minnesota performs No. 5 Stanford at 2 p.m. on FS1. 

The very best play one of the best in NCAA volleyball, not like, say, faculty soccer. To wit: No. 2 Ohio State 52, Akron 6; No. 4 Texas 52, Colorado State 0; No. 5 Alabama 63, Western Kentucky 0; No. 6 Ole Miss 76, Furman 0; No. 15 Tennessee 69, Chattanooga 3. 

Puh-leeze.

After a pair hundred matches every of the previous two days, issues decelerate in NCAA volleyball Sunday, however there are nonetheless fairly a number of matches, together with, in no specific order:

Georgia vs. Florida State
Tennessee vs. Louisville
Penn State vs. Temple
UC Davis vs. Purdue
Florida vs. Michigan State 

Listed below are a number of the key outcomes and prime performances from Saturday:

The Energy 4

Cal, now of the ACC, beat San Francisco in 5 as Maggie Li had 24 kills, 5 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. USF’s Astrid Puig had 24 kills. Cal then swept Portland State to enhance to 3-0 and Li had 15 extra kills, hit .565 and had an help, an ace, 5 digs and a solo block and a block help … Florida State hit .324 in a sweep of UC Santa Barbara and Arkansas switch Taylor Head had 15 kills, an help, three aces, seven digs and a block … Boston School hit .385 in a sweep of Iona … Miami hit .417 in a sweep of Colorado. Grace Lopez had 12 kills, hit .450, and had two assists, 11 digs, a solo block and a block help, and eight of her group’s 11 aces … No. 4 Pitt hit .351 and swept Lengthy Seashore State …

Within the Large 12, Houston beat Washington State in 4 as Miami transter Angela Grieve had 17 kills, eight digs and a block … Toyosi Onabanjo had 22 kills with two errors in 27 assaults and 5 blocks as No. 13 Kansas beat Duke in 4 … Kansas State, which the evening earlier than gave host Purdue all it may deal with, received knocked off in 5 by the Large West’s UC Davis, which hit .147 … Iowa State, getting votes within the AVCA ballot, was crushed in 5 by UNLV … 

Two Large Ten groups sustained five-set losses as Maryland fell to New Hampshire and Northwestern misplaced to Pacific … Rylee Rader had 14 kills with one error in 21 swings as Ohio State beat Northern Iowa in 4. Rader had an ace, two digs and 4 blocks … Avry Tatum had 18 kills and hit .484 for Indiana in a five-set win over Wichita State … Purdue hit .371 in a sweep of UMBC. Eva Hudson had 15 kills with one error in 30 assaults to go together with eight digs and two blocks … No. 2 Nebraska beat TCU, which is getting votes, in 4. Harper Murray had 20 kills, hit .302, and had an ace, six digs and three blocks, two solo … Ohio State and Dayton couldn’t end their match at Dayton. Click on right here for the sloppy particulars.

Within the SEC, No. 9 Kentucky beat Western Kentucky — the final group out within the 25-team AVCA ballot — in 4. Brookly DeLeye had 25 kills for the Wildcats, hitting .460, to go together with an help, two aces, 9 digs and a block. Earlier WKU swept Northern Kentucky …

Logan Lednicky had 19 kills for Texas A&M and hit .424 in a four-set win over McNeese to go together with an help, an ace, 5 digs and two blocks … Georgia hit .350 in a sweep of South Florida. Sophie Fisher had 15 kills with three errors in 22 swings, two aces, three digs and three blocks … Auburn is 3-0 after beating Wofford in 4 … Mississippi State beat UAB in 4, however UAB’s Jorda Criminal had 24 kills, hit .571 and had an ace, three digs and three blocks, one solo … Florida beat Northern Colorado in 4 … And the way about LSU, which resides life a bit of too near the sting this early season. The Tigers needed to pull a reverse sweep to beat New Hampshire on Friday, then beat Maryland in 4 and Saturday misplaced to Troy 25-21, 18-25, 8-25, 25-16, 25-23. Troy’s Tori Hester had 24 kills, an ace, 12 digs and 4 blocks, two solo.

Traces of the day

CSUN beat San Diego State in 5 and Amaris Smith had 29 kills with 4 errors in 57 assaults to hit .439 and had an help, 9 digs and a block. However give a nod to Stetson’s Anabelle Standish, who had 27 kills in a five-set win over Bethune-Cookman to go together with an help, an ace, 9 digs and 5 blocks, one solo, Oklahoma’s Alexis Shelton had 25 kills in a four-set win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. She hit .500 and had 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. And, as famous, Kentucky’s Brooklyn DeLeye had 25 kills towards WKU.

Across the nation

No. 12 Creighton hit .358 and swept Missouri and Ava Martin had 12 kills with no errors in 30 assaults … Towson is 3-0 after beating Lehigh in 5. Ava Nakai had 19 kills and hit .317 to go together with three blocks …

Temple of the American Athletic Convention improved to 3-9 with a sweep of FDU. The Owls, who hit .333, received 12 kills from Sydney Jones, who had one error in 18 swings, and 10 from Christiana Greene, who had one error in 11 assaults to hit .818 … Later, Rider beat FDU in 5 behind 23 kills from Paige Giehtbrock, who had 4 aces, 12 digs and a block … Additionally within the AAC, Rice hit .386 in a sweep of Texas State … 

Dayton of the A-10 hit .370 in a sweep of FIU. Lexie Almodovar had 13 kills, hit .379, and had an ace, 11 digs and a block … Purdue Fort Wayne beat Holy Cross in 5 as Hungarian Panna Ratkai, the 2023 Horizon freshman of the yr, had 24 kills, two aces, 12 digs and a block … Florida Atlantic hit .385 in its win over Ball State that left each groups 2-1 … Ohio beat App State in 5 and Anna Kharchynska had 19 kills, hit .341, and had two digs and 6 blocks, one solo. However Ohio State was later swept by Wright State, which improved to 3-0 … Louisiana beat Murray State — which received 24 kills from Ellie Vogel — in 5. ULL libero Mio Yamamoto had 23 digs and 7 assists … 

San Jose State beat Cal State Fullerton in 5 behind 25 kills by Blaire Fleming, who hit .513 and had two aces, 5 digs and 4 blocks. She had a complete of 54 kills in her first 4 seasons and had 14 kills Friday in a sweep of Louisiana Tech.