RE: Women Volleyball NCAA Tournament
25-20 How sweep it is!
Arguably our best all-around matches of the year. San Diego is a quality team and we made them look bad. Good serving, great defense and balance offense is a winning combination.
Nicole: 15 kills, .333, 5 digs, 2 blocks
Bickelmeyer: 8 kills, .500, 2 blocks
Shore: 8 Kills, .538, 2 blocks
Adekunle: 7 kills, .300, 5 blocks
Mariska: 7 kills, .158, 4 digs
Graham: 2 kills, 38 assists, 1 ace, 9 digs, 2 blocks
Grippa: 12 digs
The defense by LoBue, McCardell, Grippa, Lennon and Graham was the best, by far, that we've seen all year. As mentioned, SD kept getting excellent attack opportunities close to the net, but it was our blocking and, especially, our back line defense that saved the day.
If we play like this against UT, they may still win, but we should be competitive....and I have no doubt the team still has a sour taste in its mouth from the beat down they did to us at Tudor earlier this year. They destroyed us in the service game and in their blocking, but if we can defend the serve as we did for the most part today against a very good serving team, we've got a chance.
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