By Cindy Luis

Hawaii’s blocking was impressive tonight. Players said they followed the blocking plan as set out by Sealy. 17.5 is a season high.
good coverage on tips, too.
Houston had 19 kills, nine digs and six blocks, hitting .472. Sanders added a match-high nine blocks, seven kills .462 Kaufman had seven kills and seven blocks. Hittle seven kills, nine digs and five blocks Brandt had 37 assists, 13 digs, a season-high six blocks and two aces.

By Cindy Luis

hawaii up 15-9. our state monitor is out so can’t give you stats. team’s passing looks really good. houston has 5 kills, hittle 2. hawaii scored two points on near overpasses, with nmsu setter called for back row blocker

By Cindy Luis

#2 Penn State def. #22 Minnesota 3-0
#3 Stanford def. #7 UCLA 3-1
#4 Washington (H) def. Washington State 3-0
#6 USC (H) def. #9 California 3-2
#7 UCLA (H) lost to #3 Stanford 1-3
#8 Wisconsin def. Indiana 3-2
#9 California lost to #6 USC 2-3
#10 Florida (H) def. LSU 3-0

#14 Duke def. Boston College 3-0
#16 Oregon (H) lost to Arizona State 1-3
#17 Dayton def. Duquesne 3-1
#19 Ohio (H) def. Akron 3-0
#20 Michigan lost to Northwestern 2-3
#22 Minnesota (H) lost to #2 Penn State 0-3
#23 St. Johns (H) def. DePaul 3-0

By Cindy Luis

have to apologise but i cannot respond to individuals while not in the office. some sort of weird firewall on our server.

i’d be up to creating bios of our bloggers. we have a lot of very intelligent, insightful people here. i’ll check with our web guys to see if we can’t do something along the lines of VT. about 15 away from the match. more later

By Dave Reardon

KHNL News 8 anchor Stephanie Lum heads to Aloha Stadium tomorrow for a special Job Swap with Vili the Warrior (Vili Fehoko) as the University of Hawaii Football team battles New Mexico State. Lum will be on the sidelines with Fehoko from about 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, learning the ropes on how to be the ultimate Warrior and drumming up fan support. Then on Thursday, Nov. 1, Fehoko will be a guest anchor on KHNL News 8 at 10.

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By Cindy Luis

#16 Oregon (H) def. Arizona 3-0
#18 Colorado State lost to UNLV 0-3

CSU is currently ranked ahead of Hawaii in the West RKPI, as is cal poly.

Nevada def. Idaho, 31-29, 30-20, 30-28
Utah State def. Utah Valley State, 30-26, 31-29, 26-30, 30-27
San Jose State def. Boise State, 29-31, 30-22, 29-31, 30-21, 15-9,

btw, it’s Tara Hittle’s 22nd birthday today

By Dave Reardon

Starting weakside linebacker Adam Leonard was not in drills today due to a stomach virus, but coaches said Leonard will be OK to play Saturday against New Mexico State.

Coach June Jones also said after practice that cornerback Ryan Mouton (knee) “will play.”

Leonard was wearing sweats and his jersey, but without helmet and shoulder pads and on the sideline talking to Jones.

Leonard is UH’s second-leading tackler, and has taken two interceptions for touchdowns this season and recovered a fumble against San Jose State that led to the game-tying touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Leonard had off-season knee surgery, but has started every game this fall.

Brad Kalilimoku, Blaze Soares and Solomon Elimimian were the starting linebackers today.

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Mouton (knee), however, was fully geared up for the second day in a row. He’s mostly on the side, but it still looks like he might play Saturday.

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Corbin Brown, one of the top high school safeties in Las Vegas, had hoped to come to Hawaii and play for the Warriors. But UH has not made a scholarship available to him. According to his father, Greg, Brown has re-opened recruiting and is receiving interest from Colorado, Boston College, Princeton, Utah and UNLV.

“They said ‘the lanscape has changed,’ and Corbin should ‘keep his options open,’” Greg Brown said, in reference to an e-mail from UH.

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By Cindy Luis

Wow, there’s some intense feelings here (read Wayne, etc below).
It is very hard to win the national championship these days. lots of factors go into it. why else have only a handful of programs done it? I think it will change because the BCS money has begun to trickle down through athletic departments to other programs outside of football. Michigan is a good example.
As for Kanani Herring staying home, she wants to win a national championship and she wants to do it playing for her state and home. You say Shoji can’t recruit then you ignore a great recruit signing.
true, a lot of things work against UH in recruiting. distance, academics, lack of a ‘college atmosphere’ but those are things that won’t change, regardless of who the coach is.
Hawaii still has one of the best records for final four appearances. think only florida and stanford may have better. and florida hasn’t won. IMHO, there is no excuse for stanford not winning every year with what they can offer a recruit, especially a Stanford degree.

First serve. back to you.

By Cindy Luis

No recap up yet but there is a box on the UT web site
http://livestats.texassports.com/boxscores/vb/2007/ut18.htm

Pavan had 17 kills in the 30-22, 30-25, 30-20 loss. the only NU player in double-digit kills. Huskers had one ace, 7 SE.
for texas Hooker with 17 kills, Faucette 13. ‘horns had a 12.5-7 edge in blocks, 64-43 in digs.

By Dave Reardon

CB Ryan Mouton is in full gear at practice today. We’ll be back with a report later on how it goes for him. The talented corner and return man is trying to come back from a torn knee ligament (PCL) he injured last month. If he performs well today, he can play Saturday, coach June Jones said.

UPDATE: Mouton said he felt good after practice, and that he’s at about 85 percent. He said he’ll be fine with whatever decision is made, although obviously he would like to play.

“New Mexico State throws the ball a ton and every DB wants to be out there,” he said.

He does not expect to return kicks again, until maybe late in the season.

Backup safety Desmond Thomas and receiver Greg Salas also returned to practice, but another No. 2 safety, Dane Kealoha Porlas, did not. Secondary coach Rich Miano said he thinks Porlas will be over his strained knee and be available Saturday.

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In response to the question about why UH doesn’t put future schedules (nonconference) on its web site: Media Relations director Derek Inouchi says the web site is in the process of being redesigned, and future football nonconference schedules will definitely be a part of the new site.

UPDATE: How about that Derek! He added a link from the UH web site to a page with the future football schedules. Here’s the link:

http://uhathletics.hawaii.edu/media/Stats/Fball/future_schedules.pdf

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Speaking of football skeds; in yesterday’s interview with Herman Frazier, he said he has put out feelers for the fith and final 2009 nonconference game. Wouldn’t specify anything other than it’s looking like it will be a home game.

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