… Monroe, La.

The Warriors arrived here this afternoon after holding their walkthrough at Trinity High School in Euless, Texas. They’ll make the half-hour drive to Ruston for tomorrow’s game.

>>  News of today’s earthquake and tsunami in American Samoa struck close to home for about a dozen members of the traveling squad who have family members there. They’ve been monitoring the situation through the evening with some trying to get in touch with relatives.

This completes UH’s recruiting class to 2010. Was trying to get a comment from her coach before I posted it. This is all I have at the moment.Apparently she made one last trip to Oregon State over the weekend. Beavers were swept by Washington Sunday 25-21, 25-15, 25-21 as 1100 watched for 80 minutes.Her visit to Hawaii was during the Stanford sweep with over 6,000. wonder if it had any influence on her decision?

Top 5 stays the same. Nebraska drops from 6 to 10. It’s been a while they’ve been that low.

Hawaii’s next two oppponents met today with NMSU pulling out a 19-25, 25-22, 25-14, 25-21.Too bad LaTech had to play back to back, winning in 5 Saturday night then coming back for an afternoon match with the Aggies. Fresher legs might have made a difference. Obviously the Lady Techsters are much improved.   They have a number of transfers who are making an impact.

A very efficient night for Hawaii. They looked as good as they have all season in Sets 1 and 2. Thought Mafua kept Idaho off balance with the up-tempo offense.At one point in Set 2, UH hitting .765: 13-0-17 when leading 19-5. When Ferrell was blocked (21-9) UH was 15-1-22. They ended up hitting .640 (17-1-25).Cubi-Otineru didn’t have a hitting error until the middle of Set e (10-1-20) when she was blocked on a pipe set.Forsythe continues to play well when coming in Set 3. She’s 5-0-6 in each of the last 2 matches. She’s 31-3-51 on the season, her only hitting errors came against Cal when she was 4-3-8.We’ll see what happens at LaTech. A bit of a surprise they could knock off Utah State (in 5) tonight. Their first win since Sept. 29, 2007, a stretch of 27 WAC matches. But Hawaii is a pretty mature team and should handle the road OK.